Something To Do!

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