What indoor activities to do with a toddler?

A Two in One Indoor Activity for Your Toddler

In order for us to fully reap the benefit of our toddler's indoor activities, there's is a need to follow certain guidelines:

Know what a toddler is

A toddler is obviously a child from the age of 1-3 years, we all know that. ok. But do you know that the toddler years according to Wikipedia, are a great time of cognitive, emotional, and social development? This question brings us to the second guideline;

Sustain mentally and physically

Just as you nourish your toddlers with all kinds of goodness, sustain them with "fun but purposeful" indoor activities. That way, you kill two birds with one stone.

I'll share with you some of the determiners that I used to create fun and purposeful indoor activities for my toddler, as well as the activities itself. These determiners are based on the second guideline.

Hand and Eyes Coordination

This is basically using visual input to direct muscles to carry out tasks. From this definition, i conjured up an idea i now call "Touch What you see". This is quite a fun activity, where you touch the people and things you see, saying their names out loud starting with what he's familiar with. Then you take his hands, making him touch the same things and people you touched and saying their names out loud for him. If you continue to do this, you'll find that over time, even before he begins to talk, your toddler is able to point at things and people when you say their names. He'll do this purely from memory. Always reward them for the attempts they make to do as you have done, as it keeps them feeling positive and interested. This activity takes care of their cognitive, emotional, and social development.

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Emotional Development

This is a big term for the ability to express and manage positive and negative emotions. By the age of 2, your toddler will begin to experience emotions like guilt and frustration when he feels that he's always being stopped from touching or playing with things he shouldn't be playing with. I created an activity where he would have a chance to touch and play with the things I always stop him from playing with. This activity is called " it's Christmas!" I pour some beans onto a large bowl and let him play with it while I supervise so he doesn't swallow any of it. I also let him bang stainless steel cups and plastic plates on the tiles. Say it's "It's Christmas!" just before you start so that over time when you say it to him, he knows what's about to go down. Please make sure to supervise so that he doesn't hurt himself or damage the surrounding things.

Tripod grip

This is essentially using the thump, index, and middle fingers to carry out a task. I came up with an activity called "scribble signature" for this one. Anyone who's seen a toddler's scribble knows they look a lot like those weird signatures we see out there. You simply get a pen, pencil, crayon, and a glitter pen. You can try a bar mix. Scribble on a full scale with the most eye-catchy one and continue till you get to the least eye-catchy pen. Then hand him the most eye catchy pen to take over from her, he'll get the message. The better the mix of fancy pens, the longer he takes having fun and getting a feel for the tripod grip. This activity requires and develops a toddler's cognition.

Always keep at the back of your mind that while it's important their indoor activities are fun, it's imperative that they are also enriching physically and mentally.

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