365 TV-free activities for Toddlers

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365 TV-free activities for Toddlers

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1. Detergent Box Block (1+, indoor activities, adult participation)
Junk materials often make the best play toys for young children and by recycling packaging you are saving money and the environment

What you need:
• Square laundry detergent cartons
• Masking tape
• Coloured or patterned adhesive plastic

What to do:
Many laundry detergents now come in clock shape cartons. They make ideal building blocks for your children. After wiping them out, tape the lids closed with masking tape and then cover with coloured or patterned plastic.

Store the blocks neatly in the largest basket you can buy and add to the supply as you wash!  My son uses his for building towers, making cities to go with his train set, making castles and so on.

Challenge your children to a competition to see who can built the highest tower before it falls down. If you have toddlers they will love it if older children built towers for them to knock down.


2. Magazine Picture Puzzles (1+, indoor activities, adult participation)
Create simple jigsaw puzzles with your children from large magazine picture

What you need:
• Large magazine pictures
• Scissors
• Glue
• Thick pieces of cardboard

What to do:
Look  through magazines with your children and let them choose some pictures they would like to make into puzzles. Help them cut out the pictures, then use a strong glue to stick the pictures onto thick pieces of cardboard.

When the glue is dry, cut the pieces into puzzle shapes. With younger children begin with four or five puzzle pieces. As they master the skill, cut the pictures into more pieces.

Store and label the puzzles in plastic bags in a shoebox.


3. Story Time
Teach your children the joys of reading from an early age and they will thank you for it in later life

What you need:
• Books
• Time

What to do:
It is never too early to interest your children in books and reading. Literacy is a vital skill and an appreciation of books from an early age can give your children a great start to learning, and be a lifetime source of pleasure.

There is a huge variety of excellent children’s literature available, either to buy or borrow for your local library. Set aside time each day to sit with your children and read them a story. Younger children enjoy looking at books with large, bright images. Older children will enjoy memorising simple stories and rhymes, and will follow along as you read together, often repeating parts of the story.

Have patience with very young children when they ask you to read the same book over and over again. Take time to show them the words, as well as the pictures.


4. Bash a Bag (2+, outdoor/indoor activities, adult participation)
Let your young children use up some energy with this simple activity

What you need:
• A bag made of strong paper, plastic or fabric
• String
• Newspaper
• Wooden spoon

What to do:
Your children will love helping you tear up the newspaper and roll it into balls to fill the punching bag. When the bag’s full, tie it tightly with string. Hang the bag from a hook or doorway. (Make sure it will not hit anything precious)

Your children will have a great time bashing away at the bag with a wooden spoon. Make sure they take it turns and don’t hit each other by accident!



5. Bottles and Lids (3+, indoor)
This activity will help develop your children’s power of prediction as they guess which lid fits which bottle. It’s also a good way to develop the muscles in their hands and fingers

What you need:
• Bottles of different shape and sizes with screw-top lids

What to do:
Put out a selection of jars (at least ten) with lids with different circumstances. See if your children can find the correct lid for each jar and screw it on.

Later they might like to time themselves with an egg timer to see how fast they can do it.

They could also put the jars in order from the smallest lid to the largest.

Hint!: remain them to take a great care with the glass bottles.



6. Dressing Fast (3+, indoor, adult participation)
This game will give your children practice dressing themselves.

What you need:
• Dressing-up clothes

What to do:
Set up two piles of similar clothes – maybe a shirt, a pair of long pants, socks and a hat each.
Pick two children to stand beside you. When you say “GO” they must each run to a pile of clothes and put them on over their own clothes, and do up the buttons and fasteners. Then they run back to you.

Don’t forget to have a camera handy! This game is lots of fun a t birthday parties as well as being terrific practice for doing up buttons, clips and zips.

If you are playing with your children on their own, they can try to beat the clock, or use an egg timer.



7. Memory (3+, indoor activity, adult participation)
A fun way to develop your children memories

What you need:
• Assortment of small items such as a pencil, rubber, scissors, pen, small toys, hair brush, cutlery
• Tray
• Tea towel
• Paper and pencil (for older children who can write)

What to do:
For younger children – place a few item on the tray and let your children look at them for a minute. Have your children turn their backs while you remove a couple of items from the tray and cover them with a tea towel. Ask your children to turn around and look ant the tray and tell you what’s missing.

For older children – place up to twenty items on the tray and cover them up. Uncover them in front of your children and give them a minute to try and memorise the items, then cover them up again. Your children then write down as many items as possible.

Have a turn yourself and see if your memory is better than your children’s. You may be unpleasantly surprised.



8. Odd one out (3+, inside activity, adult participation)
Help your children understand the meaning of same and different

What you need:
• Pairs of matching objects, such as a pair of socks, a pair of shoes, two matching mugs, two matching forks

What to do:
Mix up the items and have your children find the two that are the same. Then ask them to cover their eyes. Put a pair of matching objects together with one that is different. Your children have to find the odd and tell you why it doesn’t belong.

Make this game more difficult by making the differences subtler.

9. Rice Maracas (3+, inside activity, adult participation)
Children love making music. Make some simple maracas with them and they will love playing them and following the beat of their favourite songs

What you need:
• Paper cups (or you also can use clear plastic bottle)
• Uncooked rice
• Masking or insulating tape
• Felt pens

What to do:
Fill a paper cup about half full of uncooked rice and then place an empty cup on the top. Your children can help hold the cups firmly and steadily in place while you join them together with tape. Now they can use their felt pens to decorate the maracas in bright colour.

Make maracas with different amounts of rice. For different sound effects you could use dried pasta, beans or split peas.

Shake out same different rhythms and see if they can copy them.


10. Edible playdough (1+, indoor activity, adult participation)
Make some edible playdough that younger children will enjoy playing with

What you need:
• Peanut paste
• Milk powder
• Sugar
• Edible food colouring

What to do:
Younger children often want to eat regular playdough. If this happening with your younger children, put away the regular playdough until they are older and can understand not to eat it, and make them a batch of edible playdough.

Simply mix one part of peanut paste to one part of milk powder and half part of sugar. Double or triple the quantities depending on how much you want. Add some food colouring if desired.



11. Box Cars (2+, outdoor/indoor activity, adult participation)
Making cheap play props like this helps develop your child’s imagination

What you need:
• Cardboard box
• Scissors
• Acrylic paint
• Glue
• Paper plates, piece of cardboard, aluminium pie plates
• Felt pens
• Rope

What to do:
Make a box car for your children. Cut the flaps off the top and bottom of a cardboard box, except for the flap at the front. Your children can paint the box at this stage – maybe racy red, or British racing green! When it’s done, stick paper plates on the side for wheels and aluminium pie dishes on the front for headlights. Make straps out of rope. The children step inside their box cars and slip the straps over their shoulders. Now they are off and racing!



12. Breakfast-cereal threadings (2+, indoor activity, adult participation)
Breakfast cereal loops can make pretty necklaces and bracelets, and children love to make them. Threading is also an excellent had-eye coordination activity

What you need:
• Bodkin or a large tapestry needle
• Wool
• Breakfast-cereal loops (eg. Froot loops)

What to do:
Help your children thread their needles or bodkins with wool and tie a cereal loop at the end of the wool to secure. If you don’t want your younger children using needles, wrap some sticky tape around the end of the wool to make a firm threading and they can thread with that.

Older children will enjoy making colourful patterns as they thread. Younger ones will enjoy eating their creations at the end!



13. Colourful Playdough (2+, indoor activity, adult participation)
Make up a batch of simple cooked playdough for your children. It will keep them occupied for ages and provide a great outlet for their creativity

What you need:
• 1 cup plain flour
• 1 cup water
• ½ cup cooking salt
• 1 tablespoon cream of tartar
• 1 tablespoon cooking oil
• Food colouring or powder paints
• Wooden spoon
• Saucepan
• Breadboard
• Plastic container

What to do:
With a wooden spoon, mix the flour, water, salt and cream of tartar in a saucepan over a medium heat until thick. When it has cooled, add the oil and knead well on a floured board.

Divide the dough into at least six balls and add a different colour to each ball until you have a blue, red, yellow, green, purple and orange playdough. (If you want plain playdough, omit the colouring)

Put each colour into a separate container and encourage your children to create playdough pictures or dioramas. When they have finished, help them start out the colours to put back in their containers for another day, rather than mixing them all together. Happy modelling!



14. Finger painting (2+, outdoor activity, adult participation)
Finger painting provides a wonderful sensory experience for children of all ages.

What you need:
• 2 tablespoon cornflour
• Cold water
• 1 cup boiling water
• Food colouring
• Saucepan
• Wooden spoon
• Large sheet of plastic or plastic tablecloth

What to do:
Blend the cornflour with a little cold water and mix to a smooth paste. Add the boiling water and sit over a low heat until the mixture thickens. Add some food colouring and mix thoroughly.

Cover an outdoor table with a large sheet of plastic or a plastic tablecloth, or use a table that can be hosed or  washed down. Alternatively, spread the plastic on the grass or on pavers and the children can finger paint there.

Younger children will enjoy just drawing pictures in the paint and will love the squishy feeling of the finger paint. Older children might enjoy using some combs, grout scrapers or thick cardboard cut into comb shapes to make interesting patterns.

If they want to keep a finger-painting picture, you can take a print by carefully pushing a piece of paper onto the picture and then lifting it off slowly.

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