Growing Play
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Toddler Time: Rides
Need to entertain your toddler for a few minutes? Bring them on a toddler ride in the laundry basket. Stop and start the laundry basket slowly which will challenge the little ones balance skills and strengthen the trunk muscles. You can encourage language by waiting to start the toddler ride until the little one using […]
Tiny Toy Land
My children built a small outdoor landscape for their small toys to live in this past weekend. There was a natural nook in the tree stump to create a small shelter. After hunting for some furniture (bark and rocks) the tiny toy land was ready to play with. Most of the entertainment was creating the […]
Animal Detectives – Free Game to Print
If you want to challenge your your child’s visual perceptual skills, visual closures skills and encourage physical activity download this free printable game. The kids will love guessing what animal is hiding in the grass! You can download it for free at Growing Play.
Toddler Time: Dried Bean Play
Of all the things my children have enjoyed playing with through the years the dried bean container is in the top three most favorite “toys”. Toddlers especially like to pour, sort, scoop and touch all the beans. If you provide kitchen items the beans make a nice plinking noise as you pour them. You do […]
Freebie Playing Laundry Shop Printables
Print these two free fun pages to play pretend laundromat. This is a functional pretend play activity. A child can work on sorting and counting laundry while using their imagination to open up a “laundromat”. You can download the pages at GrowingPlay. This activity encourages: pretend play imagination literacy math skills writing skills functional skills […]
Running Bases Game
Running Bases is a great classic game that I played frequently as a child and my children play now. Here is how you play: Preparation: Head outdoors and find two trees at least 40 feet apart. If trees are not available, put out two bases or cones. Grab a ball to toss, something that won’t […]
Toddler Time: Stacking Cups
After stacking all of our cups to see how high we could go, my toddler loved watching us stack the cups so she could knock them all down. She would wait patiently while we stacked and then knock them down with all of her might. She kicked them, squashed them and tossed them all over […]
How High Can You Go?
Try out this challenge… how high can you stack layers of small plastic cups and cardboard and balance on it without crushing it all? In our house, the 50 pound child was able to stack 4 layers of cups and cardboard and balance on it without breaking the tower down. This was a great project […]
Colorful Slime
I have seen many recipes for slime on the internet and in books so we figured we would try it out. This was so simple and fun. Just combine equal parts clear glue and liquid starch (found in the laundry aisle at grocery store). Mix them together. Then separate the slime and add food coloring […]
Target Practice
Here is one of the games my son set up at his recent birthday party. He turned over a Styrofoam cooler, pushed 5 golf tees into the bottom and balanced 5 ping pong balls on top of each golf tee. Using a water gun from about 5 feet away, we timed how fast each player […]