Read The Everything Toddler Activities Book Online
Authors: MEd Joni Levine
Penguin Walk, 250
Personal Placemats, 18
Picnic Ants, 154
Pinecone Bird Feeder, 155
Pirate’s Treasure, 82
Plate Puppets, 129
Play Phone, 168
Playdough Cooking, 88
Playdough Textures, 89
Pond life activities, 216–18
Popping Ball, 116
Pot Banger activity, 260
Pot-of-Gold Hunt, 264
Pressed Flowers, 147
Pretend places, 41
Pretend play, 117–30
Princess Theme Party, 281
Problem-solving skills, 25
Projects, group craft, 285–87
Prop use activities, 113–15
Pumping Cardboard, 109
Punchinello activity, 112
Puppets, 56, 128–30, 199, 249
Purim Graggers, 265
Put Those Paintbrushes Away activity, 69
Puzzle Hunt, 43
Rain Painting, 151
Rain Sticks, 31
Rainbow Discs, 225
Rainbow Melt, 248
Rainbow Toast, 19
Rainbow’s End activity, 263
Rainy day, activities for, 27–43
Real Finger Puppets, 56
Recycled Critters, 266
Rescue activity, 106
Restaurant Themes, 118
Reverse Finger Painting, 69
Rhyme Time, 167
Rice Collage, 74
Riddle Me This activity, 178
On the Road activity, 48
Roadway activity, 83
Rock Painting, 87
Roll Over activity, 194
Roll Up activity, 16
Rolling activity, 208
Rough Art, 66
Row the Boat, 195
Rubber Fingers Puppets, 128
Runny Pictures, 32
Sail Away activity, 219
Sand Squiggles, 83
Sardines, 138
Scary things, 242–45
Scent Safari, 93
Scrapbooks, 171
Sculpting, 71–73
Seasonal activities, 237–55
Self awareness, child’s, 173–88
Self-Portrait activity, 180
Sensory activities, 81–100
Sensory disability activities, 190–91
Shadow Dancing, 29
Shadow Tag, 139
Shake Out Your Sillies activities, 28–30
Shapes activities, 222–24
Shaving-Cream Finger Painting, 93
Shine a Flashlight activity, 100
Shoebox Golf, 39
Shopping Bag/Purse, 120
Shrinking Island, 135
Shrinky Things, 79
Side by Side activity, 23
Sign Language, 200
Silhouette activity, 191
Silly Glasses, 122
Silly Says activity, 290
Skills/readiness activities, 160–62
Sleeping Lions, 289
Smelly Tacky Paintings, 185
Snow Castles, 247
Snowy Pictures, 246
Soap Crayons, 13
Sock Hop, 104
Sock Sort, 22
Soufflé Flowers, 252
Sparkle Germs, 188
Sparkly Pictures, 64
Spatial concepts, 233–36
Special Delivery activity, 206
Spider Webs, 245
Spin Art, 77
Springtime activities, 251–53
Sprout in a Bag, 147
Squish and Mix activity, 226
Squishy Bags, 94
St. Patrick’s Day, 262–64
Stick Horse, 114
Sticker Surprise, 68
Sticky Balls, 110
Storm Shelter, 33
Storm Sounds, 31
Story Board, 169
Story in a Bag, 165
Story Songs, 164
Storytelling, 165–66
Stuffed Blocks, 125
Stuffed Snake, 203
Summer activities, 253–55
Sun Catchers activity, 79
Sun on a Stick activity, 254
Sunflower activity, 254
Suspense, sense of, 12
Table Centerpieces, 291
Tape Pictures, 65
Tape Pulling, 57
Tea Party, 42
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear activity, 193
Teddy Bear’s Picnic Theme Party, 280
Texture Book, 171
Thanksgiving, 271–72
Theme parties, 280–81
There’s a “B” in My Soup activity, 231
Thin Line activity, 114
This Is the Way activity, 21
Three Little Kittens, 228
Three-Dimensional Sculpture, 72
Tiptoe activity, 12
Tissue-Paper Ghosts, 243
Tissue-Paper Sculpture, 72
Toddler Twister activity, 29
Toddlers, 1–8
activity guidelines for, 7–8
appropriate activities for, 6–7
attention span of, 7
desire for control/power and, 3
emotions of, 2
hands-on experiences and, 4
independence, 2–3
inquisitiveness, 3–4
limitations, 3
modes of learning and, 4–5
play activities and, 5–6
sensory/movement experiences and, 4
toddlerhood and, 2
transition period and, 2
Toe Wrestling, 139
Touch, intensity of, 11
Touch Blue activity, 47
Touchy Touchy activity, 179
Toy Airplanes, 209
Track and Field activity, 109
Traditional games, 132–33
Traffic Light activity, 103
Transition times activities, 20–21
Transportation activities, 207–09
Trash Sort activity, 267
Treasure Chest, 37
Treasure Hunt, 26
Tube Menorah, 274
Turkey Trap activity, 271
Up and Down activity, 116
Using books activities, 163–64
Valentine’s Day, 260–62
Verbal games, 167–68
Vocabulary development, 52
Waiting time activities, 52–53
Wake Up Tickles activity, 11
Walking Finger Puppets, 199
Washing Fun, 23
Water Paint, 25
Water-Play Accessories, 85
Way Up in the Sky activity, 215
Weather activities, 151–52
Wet Chalk Pastels, 68
What Comes Next? activity, 233
What Did You Say? activity, 162
What Is Happening? activity, 62
What Is Hiding? activity, 50
What Is That Smell? activity, 185
What’s Playing activity, 96
Wheels on the Bus, 209
When Bad Weather Threatens activities, 30–31
Where Is My Pair? activity, 25
Which Is the Best? activity, 219
Who Am I? activity, 47
Who Said That? activity, 162
Wind Socks, 251
Window Clings activity, 26
Winter activities, 245–48
Wizard of Oz activity, 144
Wooden Star of David, 273
Worm Tracks activity, 149
Yarn Sculpture, 71
Yarn Squiggles, 50
Your Turn, My Turn activity, 197
Zoo activities, 59–60
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