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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.
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.
Let’s Laugh
Ask family members to share what makes their baby laugh. Make a book of “laughing baby” ideas and share it with families and colleagues.
Let’s Pretend
Playing pretend games is a great way to learn and practice new words with your toddler.
Light Show
Go outside and explore light on a sunny day. Play shadow games and explore what happens when light passes through colored water.
Look in the Mirror
A mirror is a great way to talk about what your toddler sees, make silly faces, and name things!
Make Your Mark
Have babies explore different materials with their hands, feet, fingers, and toes to help them exercise their pre-writing muscles.
Measuring Tools
Introduce math tools to toddlers and let them explore measuring, pouring, filling, and emptying one material into another.
More . . . More . . . Too Many
Hand a baby more objects than she can hold to help a baby develop a strong sense of numbers. Play the game as you use lots of math vocabulary—here’s one toy, here’s one more, let’s count how many, and so on.
My Family Book
Create a book of favorite people for each baby. Use photos of their families and friends. “Read” the book together by talking about the pictures.
Nature's Music
Sit quietly outside with one or two toddlers and listen to sounds together. Talk and sing about the sounds you hear.
Packing for a Picnic
Planning a picnic together involves lots of early math concepts.
Play and Explore
Guide a baby’s exploration—or just follow her lead—as she learns about her world with her eyes, ears, hands, mouths, and actions.
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.
Reading Gestures
Tune into a baby’s gestures and imitate them. Give her the words to go along with the gestures and when she’s ready, she’ll be able to use the words on her own.
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.
Songs for Routines and Transitions
Play or sing simple songs during daily routines or transition times. Babies will begin to recognize the songs and connect them to specific routines or transitions.
Talk and Go
Prepare for new experiences by talking about what is going to happen. Afterwards, talk about what you saw, heard, and did.