Creative Toddler Activities for Indoors as well as Outdoors!
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Fun Toddler Indoor Activities -
"CARDBOARD TUNNELS"
Cardboard boxes are great because they are free and also terrific for children's creative play.
Fill up your car with boxes from your local fruit shop or electric store and let the children make a great cardboard tunnel maze indoors or in your back yard. Ask family and friends to keep any cardboard boxes, so your children can have extra fun adding to their cardboard tunnel.
What You Need:
* Cardboard sheets or boxes of different shapes and sizes
* Strong masking or insulating tape
What To Do:
Help the children open out different sides of boxes and join them together to make tunnels. Long boxes can have a hole cut in the side so another box can be fitted into it.
Use the masking or insulating tape to hold the boxes firmly together.
Use a variety of boxes of different shapes and sizes to make the tunnel maze a real challenge.
When the tunnels are finished the children might enjoy decorating them with some acrylic paints.
They could even make a textured tunnel with different surfaces to crawl along bubble wrap, towels, carpet Hessian mats or just the grass.
If they want a spooky tunnel they could hang things from the roof of the tunnels such as wet plastic gloves, lengths of cellophane, crepe paper or partly blown up balloons.
Let them keep up their tunnels for a few days. By then their interest will probably have warn off and you can take it all to the tip.
"Indoor Hockey"
This is a great indoor game for those wet days the kids are getting restless.
Hockey is very popular with kids today in schools, public etc.
Indoor hockey is not as physical as the outdoor game. Its fun to play and the kids love to join in setting up for their game of indoor hockey.
What You Need:
* Table - Top
* Books
* Iceblock Sticks
* Paper
* Masking Tape
What To Do:
On a table top, position thick books all around the edges to form sides for the hockey field. Leave a gap at each end of the table for the goal area. Use an ice block stick as your hockey stick.
Making the ball: Use a piece of paper and scrunch it into a form of a ball, then wrap masking tape around it so as it keeps its shape.
Each player stands at opposites ends of the table, taking it in turns to shoot for a goal.
"WET DAY OBSTACLE COURSE"
It's wet outside and the kids are itching for some outdoor activity. Heres away to put a stop to your children going crazy inside with just as much fun as getting outside. Let's have a wet day obstacle course, indoors. It's so much fun.
What You Need:
* Furniture
* Pillows
* Towels
* Balloons
* Household items
What to Do:
Some suggestions for your Wet Day Obstacle Course:
* Crawling between the chair legs
* Crawling underneath the coffee table
* Tie a cord between two chairs, then they go under the cord on their belly
* Make a tunnel, using cushions, chairs and a rug or a blanket
* Knot some balloons underneath a table and crawl through without making any move
* Make a long balance beam by rolling up towels
Get the kids to help set up the wet day obstacle course, they love to be part of any activity. Ask your children for some other ideas too.
This wet day obstacle course is a great activity; your children will get great enjoyment out of it. Also helps develop co-ordination, control and balance. You can also join in the fun.
Cardboard boxes are great because they are free and also terrific for children's creative play.
Fill up your car with boxes from your local fruit shop or electric store and let the children make a great cardboard tunnel maze indoors or in your back yard. Ask family and friends to keep any cardboard boxes, so your children can have extra fun adding to their cardboard tunnel.
What You Need:
* Cardboard sheets or boxes of different shapes and sizes
* Strong masking or insulating tape
What To Do:
Help the children open out different sides of boxes and join them together to make tunnels. Long boxes can have a hole cut in the side so another box can be fitted into it.
Use the masking or insulating tape to hold the boxes firmly together.
Use a variety of boxes of different shapes and sizes to make the tunnel maze a real challenge.
When the tunnels are finished the children might enjoy decorating them with some acrylic paints.
They could even make a textured tunnel with different surfaces to crawl along bubble wrap, towels, carpet Hessian mats or just the grass.
If they want a spooky tunnel they could hang things from the roof of the tunnels such as wet plastic gloves, lengths of cellophane, crepe paper or partly blown up balloons.
Let them keep up their tunnels for a few days. By then their interest will probably have warn off and you can take it all to the tip.
"Indoor Hockey"
This is a great indoor game for those wet days the kids are getting restless.
Hockey is very popular with kids today in schools, public etc.
Indoor hockey is not as physical as the outdoor game. Its fun to play and the kids love to join in setting up for their game of indoor hockey.
What You Need:
* Table - Top
* Books
* Iceblock Sticks
* Paper
* Masking Tape
What To Do:
On a table top, position thick books all around the edges to form sides for the hockey field. Leave a gap at each end of the table for the goal area. Use an ice block stick as your hockey stick.
Making the ball: Use a piece of paper and scrunch it into a form of a ball, then wrap masking tape around it so as it keeps its shape.
Each player stands at opposites ends of the table, taking it in turns to shoot for a goal.
"WET DAY OBSTACLE COURSE"
It's wet outside and the kids are itching for some outdoor activity. Heres away to put a stop to your children going crazy inside with just as much fun as getting outside. Let's have a wet day obstacle course, indoors. It's so much fun.
What You Need:
* Furniture
* Pillows
* Towels
* Balloons
* Household items
What to Do:
Some suggestions for your Wet Day Obstacle Course:
* Crawling between the chair legs
* Crawling underneath the coffee table
* Tie a cord between two chairs, then they go under the cord on their belly
* Make a tunnel, using cushions, chairs and a rug or a blanket
* Knot some balloons underneath a table and crawl through without making any move
* Make a long balance beam by rolling up towels
Get the kids to help set up the wet day obstacle course, they love to be part of any activity. Ask your children for some other ideas too.
This wet day obstacle course is a great activity; your children will get great enjoyment out of it. Also helps develop co-ordination, control and balance. You can also join in the fun.
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All the family can join in these games!
TODDLER FUN PLAY INDOORS
Playing Shops
It's another wet day and your child is bored. Playing shops will keep that nagging boredom away.So, let's play, you will also enjoy this time playing shops with your child.
What You Need:
* large cardboard cartons or table
* Coins, Crayons, Paper, Scissors
* Items for the shop (eg : Books, Toys, Fruit, etc )
* Props such as : Toy cash register, Old shoe box, Plastic bags or a carry basket
What to Do:
Organize with your child to make a shop with cardboard cartons or table. Look through the cupboards for things your child can use to sell from the shop. Ask your child to choose some things to sell in the shop too.
Making play money: Blue - tack some coins to the table, put a piece of paper on top of the coins then show your child how to rub over the money with a crayon to get the markings of the play money. Help to cut your play money out ready to start shopping.
Cash register: If your child doesn't have a toy cash register then an old shoe box is the next best thing, you can make dividers to separate your play money by cutting out pieces of cardboard the same width of your shoe box.
Mom and Dad can play too, make your self a shopping list and visit your Childs shop. Your child will get so much enjoyment out of serving mom or dad.
So, come on mom lets go shopping!
"KITCHEN PLAY"
This is great for the outdoor activity on warm days; kitchen play offers your child many activities amusing your child for hours. Watch the time go by while your children happily play.
Kitchen Play is loved by all children, its Fun!
What You Need :
* Unbreakable bowls, Spoons, Ladles, Baking Trays, Muffin Tins, Measuring Spoons, Plastic Jugs and Cups
Water
Cardboard Carton
What to Do :
All children love to cook, so now your child can do some cooking outdoors using cold water.
- Stirring, Measuring, Mixing and pouring.
- Add some color to the water with a few drops of food dye, use different colors to make the kitchen play cooking more interesting. Children think it's great. Looks great too.
- Use the cardboard carton for their pretend stove. Let the cooking begin
When it comes to cooking a meal for the family, involve your child by giving a simple task to do.
"KITCHEN PLAY INDOORS"
What You Need
* Large Plastic Sheet or Plastic Table Cloth
* Play dough
* Baking Trays, Cake Tins, Plastic Cups, Egg Rings, Rolling Pin or a Plastic Bottle
Find an area to lay the plastic sheet or table cloth, give your child some play dough, watch the amazing and creative ideas that your child will share with you. Children love to be making all sorts of shapes and sizes, this activity will keep your child amused for hours.
Mom, you can even sit and play with your child and create some great shapes and sizes too.
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"Sandpit Zoo"
Young children are fascinated with toddlers activity zoos. Many hours will be filled.Watch your childrens eyes light up while happily playing in their own sandpit zoo. Help your children make a toddlers activity toy animal zoo in the sand pit.
Very easy steps making your children a sandpit zoo, enjoy & have fun!
What You Need:
* Toy zoo animals
* Boxes
* Polystyrene cups
* Scissors
* Poster or acrylic paints
* Drinking straws
* Sticky tape
* Small pieces of plants
* Jar lids
What To Do:
If your children haven't been to the toddlers activity zoo yet, take them along.
After the visit to the zoo, help them make there own toddlers activity zoo in the sandpit. Help your children cut holes in the boxes and cups to make animal homes, they will enjoy putting the finishing toddlers activity touch with painting them.
Next, sticky tape the straws together to make fences for the toddlers activity zoo.
Use a piece of card to smooth down paths for the toddlers activity zoo visitors to walk along, then add plants and flowers to make the toddlers activity zoo gardens.
Help the children fill the lids with water and bury them in the sand to make ponds and drinking pools for the zoo animals.
Arrange the animals in the zoo and leave the children to have a great time playing with their toddlers activity sandpit zoo.
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Painting The House
Your younger children want to feel involved in what you are doing, however letting them paint with 'real paint' is not usually an option.This toddlers activity will let them pretend they are really painting the house.
What You Need:
* A real paintbrush
* String, thin rope or cord
* A small well washed paint tin with a handle or a small bucket
* Food coloring
What To Do:
Attach the toddlers activity paint brush to the tin or the bucket with the cord so it doesn't get lost in the garden.
Half fill the tin or the bucket with cold water and add some drops of toddlers activity food coloring.
If your children want a non-primary toddlers activity color such as purple this is a great time to see how toddlers activity colors mix together and change.
Now they can paint the toddlers activity house, the driveway, paths, garden edging, the toddlers activity pavers or whatever they like outside that can be easily hosed off later.
Best of all,this toddlers activity allows you to do your painting knowing they are happy playing, and are safe with the toddlers activity mixture they are using to paint with.
Hours of fun will be had with this toddlers activity.
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Benefits Of Gardening For Kids
Apparently, we can see how nature is treated these days.It is a sad thing to know that people do not pay attention so much anymore to the environmental problems.
What can we do about this? It's as simple as starting with the children. It is good to see the children's involvement with environment-friendly activities . One such nature-loving activity that children could easily get their hands on is gardening. Why should you consider gardening for your children?
Here are the benefits that gardening could easily provide the children with:
1. Science
In planting, children are indirectly taught the wonders of science like the plant's life cycle and how human intervention can break or make the environment. They can have a first hand experience on the miracle of life through a seed. This would definitely be a new and enjoyable experience for the kids.
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Toddler Gymnastics
When you watch your toddler racing around the house, rolling, jumping and tumbling off things, you might wonder why in the world, anyone would enroll a child that age in "organized" gymnastics.But the answer is quite simple. It's a way to channel their energy, provide them with a social time with other toddlers, and enhance development of gross and refined motor skills.
So popular is the activity, that academies are springing up all over the country.
But remember, you're not aiming for the Olympics here, and as rule of thumb, sessions that are taught at a local YMCA, or children's center, are often as well-supervised and beneficial, as those who emphasize their professional credits and facilities.
Classes in some areas can start with children even before they begin walking, with mother-baby exercises that provide a range of motions, touches, and balancing exercises which benefit the child in two ways: physical and emotional.
The time they spend with a parent, going through their program, is one in which they have visual and audio contact that strengthens the bonding.
Once your child is up on their feet and mobile, they're ready for an "organized" class in which a parent will assist them with instructor-led activities and exercises that help them develop balance, encourage locomotion, and discover that their world offers a lot of fun games associated with their own bodies, including tumbling, walking on a balance beam on the floor, and laughing at the antics of their friends.
Children two and up are developing independence, and the ability to understand instructions. Classes for this age group are usually assessed by the teacher, who can tell whether your child will continue to need you there with him, or is ready to rock 'n roll on his own.
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What are your favourite family toddler activities?
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- strategicservices strategicservices May 17, 2008 @ 8:43 am
- Toddlers can be so difficult to keep entertained, this page has so many great ideas for todllers activity crafts and games, its great.
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- scss scss May 12, 2008 @ 4:00 am
- Another great lens for fun things to do with your toddlers.
I dont know where you get all the ideas from for these crafts and stuff! Good one!
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