Interesting Activities For Your Toddler

Toddlers are notorious tantrum throwers. Their high energy and new found independence often leads them to trouble. One of the best ways to handle their extra energy and urge for something new is to provide them with interesting age appropriate activities. This article presents some engaging activities that can provide learning experiences to toddlers.

One of the most loved activities is playing with dough. You can get play dough from the market or create your own. Give your child a rolling pin, plastic cutters and dough. You will be amazed at the type of shapes he creates using these and it will really help improve his imagination and motor skills.

On a day your toddler wants to be on his feet, you can play the shadow game. You will also be able to enjoy the outdoors in this game and your child will learn more about nature. In this game you can play goofy and act as if you are chasing his shadow or that your shadow is chasing you. You can step on his shadow and ask him to find yours and step on it.

Another great game for the active days is chasing. Toddlers simply love being run after and so you can give a new twist to this game by turning into his favorite TV character or animal. Jump from recliners and other furniture pieces to add adventure. You can become a roaring lion while he becomes a rabbit or you can be the big cat Tom while he is the tiny mouse Jerry. Try options like birds, fish, hen and others. And of course, remember to hug and kiss him when you finally catch him!

You can make story time more fun by using hand puppets. Take a pair of socks, draw eyes and mouth on them. Put one on your hand and the other on your kid's. Now make any conversations using this sock puppet and watch your kid getting drawn into the game completely. You can teach him social skills with this game and also make the old stories more amusing.

To teach your little one color, you can make each day a color day. So if it is a red day, you and your child wears red outfits, eat red apples, jams and tomatoes, pick red flowers and cover bedroom set with red sheet. This will make him remember the colors more effectively. To help him understand shapes, you can use cardboard boxes of different shapes and sizes and create a train out of them. Empty cereal boxes, take-out covers and other such throw away can be used to create the train. Make holes and use string to connect the end of one box with the front of the other.

If your toddler loves cars, use bedroom furniture to start a journey. Make pillows the car seats and bed, the car. Give him a circular plate to turn into a steering wheel and take him to distant lands! You can show him animals, fishes, people, vehicles and anything else while on the journey.