Toddlers are quite easy to have fun, but thinking about a variety of activities can be surprisingly hard.
When my children were young children, my issue was less for complex activities and more for the variety to keep their interest. So I have started to find as many Boredom Busters as possible who would keep the attention of a young child for more than five minutes (maybe 6 minutes, but what will you do).
Some are involved more than others, but my thought is that if you take a day to make the Diy Puppet Theater, you can take a week of seating for 10 or 15 minutes with a coffee on the couch while watching puppets. It is worth a shot, anyway.
Many are quite self -evident, but I have included links in some of the DIY versions to help you understand what you will need.
Non -screen activities to keep a toddler busy
- Interior treasure hunt
- Arts and crafts (painting, coloring, drawing)
- Create a fortress with blankets and pillows
- Dancing party
- Make homemade musical instruments
- Sensory bins (rice, beans, water beads)
- Nature scanner hunt
- Play with bubbles
- Play with dolls or action items
- Water Game (in a bathtub or with a water table)
- Picnic on the back or lounge
- Time
- Kitchen experiments (baking, mixing colors)
- Make a DIY sensory board
- Duplo or LEGO building
- History or Reading Books
- Play with cardboard boxes
- Create a piece of race for game cars
- Play “Simon Says” or “Red Light, Green Light”
- Play with balloons
- Barrier around the house
- Puppet
- Plants of seeds or small plants
- Play with toy animals and create zoo
- Play with sand or kinetic sand
- DIY PAPER PLATE CRAFTS
- Play with magnetic letters or numbers
- Classification color with objects around the house
- Make a homemade playdough
- Play with a train set
- Sort and match games
- Play with watercolors
- Play with stacking cups or blocks
- Play “I spy”
- Play Hide and Seek
- DIY sensory bottles
- Game Car Washing Station
- Play in a children’s pool
- Play dress with recycled materials
- Shadow Puppet Show
- Create a cardboard castle
- Play with game dinosaurs in a sensory bin
- Paint rocks for a rock garden
- Toss the water balloon
- Portfolio and flight
- Play with a dollhouse or doll
- Make paper plate masks
- Make a tea party with stuffed animals
- Play with building blocks
- Physics with bubbles with household items
- Make a marble run DIY
- Play with a game kitchen set
- Create a DIY Obstacle
- Play with a parachute (sheet or blanket)
- Play with magnetic tiles
- Make a DIY golf course
- Play with a tool tool set
- Play hopscotch indoors
- Play with stacking rings
- Create a DIY sensory council
- Play with a game cash game
- Aesthetic bags DIY
- Play with a doll trolley
- Make a DIY Puppet theater
- Play with a shaped puzzle
- Play with a game farm set
- Diy socks puppets
- Create a treasure hunt with signs around the house
- Play with a game fund and pretend to run a store
- Outdoor scanning hunting for species of nature
- Play with a game of game manufacturing
- Have a pretended picnic indoors
- Play with a set of gaming animal
- DIY painting with cotton swabs
- Play with game spaceships and have a space adventure
- Have a fashion show of fashionable fashion with clothes dress
- Play with a game toolbar and fix things around the house
- Laste -making activity
- Play with a doctor set and give check-up to filled animals
- Play with a game buttons and act different scenarios
- Make DIY musical instruments with household items
- Play with a set of superhero game
- Make a dance party in the living room
- DIY bubble painting with bubble solution and food coloring
- Create a DIY cardboard car for driving pretense
- Play with a set of gaming animals and create a zoo in the living room
- Create a DIY ramp for game car racing
- Play with a game of toy tea and make a tea party
- Catering
- DIY sandpaper art activity
- Play with a game castle set and pretend to be knights and princesses
- Create a DIY photo pavilion with scenes for fun
- Play with a game race route and match race
- Play with a camping game and have an indoor campsite adventure
- Create DIY paper masks and have a disguise ball
- Play with a game of games and create different tracks
- Watering fence with water
- Dry or wet pavement art
- Snow
What young child’s activities will you add?
Hopefully this causes some ideas. I tried to keep the list quite costly and relatively safe, but feel free to remove the ponies and pillows if that’s what works in your home!
The list of things related to young children is just as endless as their energy offer, but I would love to hear what creative ways you have kept busy. Leave them in the comments below and I’ll add them!
Also check: Toys to play with your toddler when you are tired AF
