Toddler Activity

Toddlers can do the strangest things possible. At one time you can see your toddler wading through the spilled out water in the garden and at the other end you can watch them chewing your doggie’s biscuits.  If they are not stopped at this age then the pranks become a habit for them which continue lifelong.

Whenever your toddler gets anxious, he would start biting his nail. And if you stop your child from nail biting, he is bound to become more conscious and this would promote his habit. To avoid him doing this you can bring him small feeder so that he can put that into his mouth and chew the nibble instead of the nails. Later on when the baby moves to glass leaving the feeder this habit is lost too.

Toddlers love eating along with playing or doing any activity so you don’t have to worry about putting the food in their mouth or making them eat. They get on their own. Soon if you divert their attention towards something else they won’t even remember when their tiny dummy is full and eat sufficiently well. This practice is must for those parents whose kids don’t eat food easily and making them eat is a great issue for them.

Play some music and let your child do tap-tap to the tune of it and soon you would notice him dancing. You can play nursery rhymes, Christmas carols and would see your child’s affinity towards the same. Don’t expect your kid to sing along initially. That would naturally come some times later.  You too can dance with your kid. That would teach him a few more steps too. You can teach some mythological shlokas as well if you want it. Reciting the same shloka again and again would help in learn and would surely work out wonders.

Give your child a mirror and let him see his own reflection into it. It would give him a sense of recognition for himself. He would identify his own being. Let your child stand at one place and teach him run as soon as you clap. This would enhance his consciousness and he would come running into your lap. This would in developing in him the sense of sound and he would start running towards you whenever he hears the sound of clapping. He would enjoy if you start running when he claps.

Give your kid alphabet flash cards, and associate it with the names of animals, colors, books etc around. Flash cards are easily available but you can make your own flash cards on various topics and help your child play and learn. Learning will be a fun for him. This will help them polish their brains.

You can make your child learn counting by counting the tiny balls loudly in front of them. You should speak out the numbers slowly enough so that the toddler tries to grasp it. You can speak few numbers repeatedly, so it becomes easy for the toddler to accept it. You can be a bit rhythmic if possible and soon you would find your toddler singing numerals with you. Alphabets and phonetics can be taught in the similar fashion.