Here's sixty suggestions of ways to spend quality time with your toddler. All free, fun and using only what's in your own home!
1. Have a Year-Round Easter Egg Hunt
2. Sponge or Potato Paint
3. Bake Chocolate Crispies Together
4. Clean Together
5. Put scarves in an empty kleenex box to pull out and put in
6. Paint the house, car, etc. with a bucket of water and clean paintbrush
7. Make your own picture book
8. Use a paint brush to learn parts of the body
9. Kick and Roll a Large Ball
10. Practice marching on lines of Masking Tape
11. Make Horns out of toilet paper rolls
12. Use a magnifying glass to take a closer look at the world
13. Make a tunnel out of a blanket and chair
14. Give pretend haircuts
15. Have a Parade
16. Play a Colour Recognition Game
17. Draw Chalk figures on the patio or pavement
18. Play Airplane
19. Blanket Peek-a-boo
20. Discover Musical Instruments
21. Giggle with Nonsense Syllables
22. Check out the Library for free children's activities
23. Make your own Alphabet Book
24. Make and decorate Trees made out of handprints
25. Make your own paper food plate
26. Make a Mask
27. Fill the sink with water and discover what sinks and floats
28. Put your child in the bathtub and allow him/her to paint the sides with washable watercolors
29. Plant some green bean seeds (they grow quickly)
30. Put extra change in a piggy bank
31. Play an echo game, take turns repeating each other
32. Make a dry food collage
33. Create sandy designs
34. Personal Picture Puppets
35. Play "Eye Spy"
36. Draw a chalk plate for your fine feathered friends
37. Pick Berries
38. Make a necklace out of macaroni
39. Make your own Playdough!
40. Let your child do her own Cooking
41. Make a Bird Feeder
42. Make Photo Placemats
43 Design your own Wrapping Paper
44. Play water games in the bathtub
45. Make a pavement Storyboard
46. Wash cars together
47. Make and use your own Mailbox
48. Make up new stories from old books
49. Make a collage self portrait
50. Make coloured ice cubes
51. Make a Chef's Hat
52. Give your child a torch and watch what happens
53. Let your child try on your shoes
54. Go Bowling
55. Try Apple Bobbing Without Water
56. Learn to spell a name by Cheerleading Letters
57. Accordian fold Paper Butterflies
58. Sort crackers by shape
59. Make Shadow Puppets
60. Plant cress seeds