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101 Activities To Do With Toddlers

  1. Color

  2. Blow Bubbles

  3. Play Hide and Seek

  4. Peek-a-boo

  5. Play Chase

  6. Do Finger- Plays

  7. Sing a Song

  8. Collect rocks in a basket

  9. Make an Obstacle Course out of cushions and/or furniture            

  10. Make a Fort out of cushions and sheets

  11. Go for a Walk

  12. Make a Car out of a box

  13. Read a Book

  14. Go to the Park

  15. Fingerpaint

  16. Play with Clay dough

  17. Toss Bean Bags into a bucket

  18. Play the Shell and Pea game

  19. Dance to Music

  20. Download Games for toddlers from the Internet

  21. Practice putting things in and taking things out of boxes and bags

  22. Make a temporary slide out of a table leaf and your couch

  23. Roll a ball back and forth on the floor

  24. Scoop Dirt or Sand into a child's bucket (or use a serving spoon and bowl)

  25. Practice Climbing by stacking boxes on top of each other

  26. Put on a puppet show

  27. Go fishing with a yard stick and yarn

  28. Make a horse shoe game

  29. Make a shape puzzle

  30. Play Paper Basketball

  31. Run through a sprinkler

  32. Play with a bucket of water and a sponge

  33. Make a drum out of an oatmeal box

  34. Play with a Kazoo

  35. Wash windows together

  36. Bang on Pots and Pans with a spoon

  37. Brush each other's teeth

  38. Play dress-up with stuffed animals

  39. Stack canned or boxed food 

  40. Stack mixing bowls inside each other

  41. Make a playhouse

  42. Play with stickers

  43. Make sticker fingerpuppets

  44. Play instruments

  45. Go on a smelling hunt

  46. Frost cookies

  47. Plant a flower

  48. Roll a tennis ball into an empty bucket

  49. Draw onto a mirror

  50. Play hide and seek with stuffed animals

  51. Have a splash party

  52. Put a leash on a stuffed animal and take it for a walk

  53. Record each other on a tape recorder

  54. Make paper hats

  55. Give a piggy back ride

  56. Play Horsie

  57. Talk into an electric fan

  58. Play Tug of War

  59. Collect flowers

  60. Make a camera and go on a safari

  61. Play games with frozen juice lids

  62. Disconnect your phone and pretend to make call friends and family

  63. Reconnect your phone and really make call friends and family

  64. String beads onto shoelaces

  65. Squirt each other with squirt bottles

  66. Glue shapes onto paper

  67. Make sock puppets

  68. Make paper puppets

  69. Fill an old purse with toys

  70. Use a paper towel tube as a megaphone

  71. Use toilet paper tubes as binoculars

  72. Put snacks in different containers

  73. Act out a story from a book

  74. Walk on a balance beam

  75. Draw with sidewalk chalk

  76. Sketch an outline of the child on the sidewalk

  77. Paint child's hand and press on paper

  78. Put lipstick on the child and have them kiss the mirror

  79. Make a puddle on cement  and splash bare foot in it

  80. Let child decorate and eat an open peanut butter sandwich

  81. Make a toilet paper barricade

  82. Do the hokey-pokey

  83. Make a super hero costume

  84. Do knee bouncing rhymes

  85. Play "red-light, green light"

  86. Make a shoe box train

  87. Make a pillow pile

  88. Make a felt puzzle

  89. Make bracelets

  90. Learn numbers from a deck of cards

  91. Play the matching game with a deck of cards

  92. Make a domino chain

  93. Have a picnic in the park

  94. Play dress up

  95. Make a tin can telephone

  96. Make a nature collage

  97. Imitate each other

  98. Make a "Mummy Mommy" with toilet paper

  99. Make a tape recording of short music selections and instructions to move in different ways

  100. Make a walk along a toilet paper trail

  101. Take a nap