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A Windy Day
Go outside on a windy day. Help children become aware of things being moved around by the wind.
Action Songs
Sing songs with actions and gestures to help toddlers expand their vocabularies and practice concepts.
All About ME
Make each child a “Book About ME” with family photos and magazine pictures of favorite things. Encourage family members to read the book with their child.
Asking Questions
Give toddlers ongoing opportunities to ask questions. Tune into their signs and gestures of questioning and respond by giving them words for what they seem to be asking.
Changing Textures
Explore how the texture and consistency of foods can change as you make a snack with children. Expand the exploration to include dry/wet sand or mud.
Different Ways to Play
Help children master new skills, remember new ideas, and investigate the world. Find opportunities to include new concepts, ideas, and words in their play in different ways.
Everyday Objects Are Fun Toys
Plan and build with boxes, tubes, containers, and other everyday objects together to help children develop language, art, math, and engineering skills.
Feelings Are Important!
Help toddlers learn words and strategies they need to help them manage and express and feelings, stay safe, handle new situations, and resolve problems.
Figure It Out
Play games to help toddlers use and strengthen their reasoning skills and to help them put their reasoning into words.
Flashlight Games
Play flashlight games with toddlers to help them build language skills. Spotlight and name an object in the room and then talk about it.
Just Like Me
Nurture a toddler’s individuality. Choose books with characters they can identify with and stories that reflect their home languages and cultures.
Measuring Tools
Introduce math tools to toddlers and let them explore measuring, pouring, filling, and emptying one material into another.
Play Pretend
Offer a collection of used clothes and props so children can pretend to be a family member, a favorite story character, and more.
Read About Feelings
Read books to toddlers that capture feelings and worries. Use the stories as opportunities to talk with toddlers about their own experiences and feelings.
See-Show-Say
Play a game with toddlers and help prepare them to become good readers. Focus on pictures in a book and talk about them together.
“Shake Your Sillies Out”
Sing songs to help give toddlers positive ways to express their emotions and to help build their emotional vocabulary. Create verses to go along with what toddlers are feeling.
Write! Write! Write!
Include children in writing activities—create environmental print, make charts and signs for pretend play, or write notes to family members together.