Fun Educational Activities For Babies and Toddlers At Home

The following activities teach the kids valuable lessons, while entertaining both you and your child. Most importantly, these activities provide great opportunities for you to bond with your child.

Fun Educational Activities For Babies

These activities help build recognition, memory and object association.

• Talk, or sing songs to your baby in different languages. Babies can recognize voices and start comprehending their mother tongues as early as 4 months. As your child grows older, he or she may display a propensity towards the languages heard as a baby.
• Sing one song while bathing your baby and a different song while dressing her. Soon, she’ll come to anticipate the next activity based on your song. You can switch songs in the middle to pique her curiosity.
• Draw a few shapes such as circles, triangles or even the outline of an elephant on plain white cardboard.  Paint the inside of the shapes in bright colors. Hang a new piece of colored cardboard near baby’s crib. Your baby with throw up her arms and legs when her favorite color is hung.

Fun Educational Activities For Toddlers

These activities help build creativity, team spirit and concepts of symmetry and purpose.

• Put two toddlers together and hand out colorful blobs of play dough. Ask them to build different shapes together. You can place a few pictures of animals around for inspiration. The rule is that they should be able to tell you later who built which part.
• Get some patterned or designed wooden blocks and some food colors. Give your toddler a large piece of cloth and show her how to block print. The first effort might be botched, but this is where you teach symmetry, design and execution.
• Wrap some thread around a rolling pin and apply different food colors on it. Get your toddler to roll the pin on paper, top to bottom, to make ‘wallpaper’ for her room.