Activities to Try
I encourage you to try all of these activities with your child. However, you only have to do three activities for your group work. Get together with your group and discuss which activities your groups wants to report on.
Two Year Olds
Toddlers learn by exploring and experimenting.
They love to do things
over and over. Some activities that toddlers
enjoy are listed below:
* Encourage them to run, jump and climb
outside.
* Sing simple songs with them.
* Sing and act out songs with simple movements.
* Play pat-a-cake.
* Teach them simple finger plays.
* Tell them simple, short stories.
* Let them pound a toy workbench.
* Let them play in a sandbox. Give them
water to measure and pour.
* Let them stack blocks and other objects.
* Provide things that can be taken apart
and put back together (such as
pop beads).
* Ask children to name things in the pictures
of books.
* Give them simple directions to follow.
* Play matching games and use simple puzzles
with them.
* Encourage pretending by providing dolls,
housekeeping toys,
dress-up clothes and toy telephones.
* Allow them an opportunity to do art activities
such as scribbling
and/or painting with crayons,
chalk, and paint.
* Provide play dough and finger paint.