Create Stimulating
Activities For Toddlers
The toddler stage is the age where children learn the most rapidly. They are more aware of themselves as unique individuals, they are inquisitive and they are ready for new challenges and to learn new things. Creating stimulating activities for toddlers will help them develop more fully and quickly. Follow these steps to learn how.
Instructions
Muscle Development
1. Provide some colorful scrap paper and a small hole puncher for your toddler to punch as this allows her to develop her hand grip muscles. It also provides some colorful fun.
2. Play a game of bean bag toss with him to stimulate hand and eye coordination.
3. Bounce, throw and kick a ball to help stimulate arm and leg muscle development.
Language and Cognitive Skills
4. Bring a brown bag as you take a walk in the park or around the neighborhood. Encourage your toddler to pick up interesting objects that he finds along the way. Ask him open ended questions about what he observed and picked up. Help him study, feel and discuss the things he collected.
5. Teach her about opposites. Cut out materials of different sizes, texture and shapes for her to feel and match or describe the difference.
6. Have him listen to sounds made by different things. Ask him to describe the thing that made the sound.
7. Play scavenger hunt with themes such as shapes, opposites or textures with your toddler.
8. Tell her simple riddles and have her guess the answers.
9. Play pretend with your toddler. This will stimulate her imagination and creativity.
Listening and Memory Skills
10. Play a memory game or a matching game.
11. Buy jigsaw puzzles with large pieces to play with your toddler.
12. Play a game of "Simon Says." It helps with your toddler's listening skills. Besides, he will love all the action and mimicking.
Creative Expansion
13. Play with play dough or clay dough, or let her help you bake some cookies.
14. Let him draw, color and paint.
15. Listen to a variety of music with her and dance along with the music.
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