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Saturday, March 29, 2014
More Play!
- Blowing and catching bubbles
- Balloons and balls -Balloon baseball!
- Bikes, Trikes and Ride-on toys
- Knobbed Puzzles (Amazon affiliate)
- Do “chores” with Mama and Papa
- Push baby strollers or shopping carts
- Rough and tumble play
- Build “forts” out of boxes or couch cushions!
- Make blanket tents and tunnels
And of course: Tickle, snuggle, kiss, and have lots of playful physical interaction.
Arts and Crafts
- Finger painting
- Pudding Paint!
- Water coloring paint
- Do A Dot Art Markers (Amazon affiliate)
- Stickers
- Sidewalk chalk scribbles
- Stamping (Amazon affiliate)
- Make handprint art – tracing, impressions in salt dough and paint handprints
Cooking
- Pretend or real cooking
- Make goop, gak or slime
- Baking cookies or mixing pancakes together
- Bake banana muffins
- Have a Tea Party
- Decorating cookies with lots of sprinkles that go everywhere!
When my daughter was 3 she had 2 of her friends over and we made Valentine’s cookies–the floor was solid pink with sugar and sprinkles afterward! ~The Twisting Kaleidoscope
Songs, Rhymes and Stories
- Read books together
- Touch and feel board books
- Sing and dance
- Songs with lots of movement, like “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider”, “The Wheels on the Bus”, and “Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes.
- Have spur of the moment dance parties
My kiddo and her young friends (16-24 months) like to wiggle to music while wearing tutu’s…~Katherine
Sensory Play
- Playdoh
- Waterbeads
- Sand castles
- Playing with rice, beans or cornmeal
- Playing with those arts and crafts poms poms
- Anything messy.
- Mud pies, mud holes, mud body paint
- WATER! In the sink with containers, in the sprinkler, in a sand and water table.
- Pour and measure – add a drop of food color for fun.
- Squeeze wet sponges.
- Walk the neighborhood with a watering can and “water” the flowers you see.
- Long baths – not just for getting clean
Go Visit:
- Petting zoos
- A botanical garden
- An open gym day where your child can free play in the foam pit, the trampolines and the mats.
- A Children’s Museum
- Public library toddler reading time
- Cousins, Grandparents, and Friends!
Exploring Nature
Stomping in muddy puddles; making the most of the weather whatever it is! ~ Lucy
- Feeding the ducks, or chasing them…
- Feed a baby goat
- Fly a kite
- Walking in the rain…
- Puddle splashing!
- Play outside in fresh snow.
The look on my little one’s face every time he was in a toboggan was priceless! ~Rhonda
- Hop over waves at the beach.
- Look for crabs in the rocks, starfish in the rock pools.
- Plant a spring flower to watch it grow.
- Pick fruit off of trees
- Watch a caterpillar become a butterfly
- Explore the forest, touching everything.
- Play ‘ look high/look low’ and see what types of creatures or plants they see.
- Run in the fields.
- Toss leaves
- Collect rocks.
A daily afternoon pram walk, so we can talk about the gardens we see, trees, the clouds, we count the buses. We just connect, get some fresh air and if I’m lucky they have a nap~Caroline
Indoor
- “I spy” in the car or at the park
- Building towers and knocking them down
- Rolling along toy cars
- Puppets
- Dress up
- Peek-a-boo, patty cake, hide and seek!
Hide & seek in the house (which is really silly because it’s just basic hiding beside the bed post or behind the couch). ~Katherine
- Pretend to be tigers and chase each other
- Pretend you can’t find their hands when you’re helping them get dressed
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