Loads of Activities
Your child must participate in activities meant to help him develop better. The suitable activities will help your child reach the proper milestones, from physical coordination to cognitive and social abilities. Below is a set of enjoyable and beneficial activities for toddlers (from 1 to 3 years old).
Sensory Activities
The activities in this area involve actions that appeal to your toddler’s senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
Tips:
Use sand, rice, or beans to create a sensory container. Add small toys or objects and prepare a game for your child to find them. You can also provide the child with new textures, such as сream or playdough.
Developmental Benefits:
Sensory play helps the child learn the difference between textures and materials. It also works well for fine motor skills, as it is always direct with hands.
Building Blocks
Building blocks are traditional, time-tested toys that provide phenomenal prospects for education and development.
Tips:
Hand your toddler a set of blocks and encourage them to stack as high as possible or build simple structures. You can also practice sorting and color recognition with these by asking the toddler to separate the blocks by color or shape.
Developmental Benefits:
Block play develops spatial awareness and problem-solving while teaching cause and effect from the knowledge that when a block falls, it can be stacked again.
Time for Arts and Craft
Engage your toddler in arts and crafts encourages creativity.
Tips:
Set up a simple art station with crayons, washable markers, paper, and stickers. Invite your toddler to draw colors or make a collage. You may also allow simple crafts such as gluing shapes onto paper or hand print art.
Developmental Benefits:
Arts and crafts benefit hand-eye coordination, promote creativity, and allow toddlers to practice following multi-step directions.
Music and Movement
Music and movement activities are the best ways to develop gross motor skills, rhythmic skills, and hand-eye coordination.
Tips:
Turn on some of your child’s favorite songs and have them dance, clap, or play along on shakers, drums, or other things that can be used as instruments.
Developmental Benefits:
Through music and movement, the activities enable the development of pearl motor skills, balancing, and coordination and increase the movement in rhythm with the music.
Storytime
There are no better ways to increase your toddler’s language development and comprehension skills, among others, than when you read to them and their imaginations are explored.
Tips:
Choose age-appropriate books that are colorful and have introductory text and pictures. When you point to the images in the book, ask your child what they are.
Developmental Benefits:
Reading strengthens vocabulary and listening skills. They also comprehend the concepts of tone and storytelling.
Outdoor Play
Outdoor play is also crucial for physical development; there is plenty of space outdoors where the toddler can practice gross motor skills.
Tips:
Take your toddler to a nearby park where he can have access to running, jumping, and climbing. Straightforward activities like kicking a ball, playing in the sand, or going for a nature walk are equally beneficial in this outside setting.
Developmental Benefits:
It increases physical strength, coordination, and balance. It also enables the child to ask questions and have sensory experiences in the outdoors.
Importance of Activities
The above activities are crucial for doing miracles and improving your overall development as a toddler. Each activity has a lot to learn from and, at the same time, is fun for the toddler. All that’s necessary is to do this for your child daily and consistently. For more tips and information about early childhood education check out Triangle Learning Center’s Blog.
Sources-
-Unicef. 21 learning activities for babies and toddlers. https://www.unicef.org/parenting/child-care/21-learning-activities-babies-and-toddlers
-They are raising children. Creative activities for toddler learning and development. https://raisingchildren.net.au/toddlers/development/creative-development/toddler-creative-activities
-Healthy young minds. Activities for 2 to 3-year-olds: Engaging and educational fun. https://www.healthyyoungminds.com/activities-for-2-to-3-years-old/