Activities for Tiny Tots

Here are some activities that you can do with young children from age 18 months to about 2 1/2 yrs old. 

Pick a letter each week to work on:

There are many learning activities that you can do at home with your child. Set aside 10 to 15 min for circle time. In our circle time we sing the alphabet song while I help Lego man, when he was much younger, point to each letter with his magic wand. 

This helps with letter association and makes it fun. Next, I pick a letter to focus for that week and we talk about that letter and words that begin with that letter. At the same time I work in the sound of the letter which will help with early reading as your child learns to put the sound with the letter. 

We did a lot of this when Lego man just started to talk.  We have talked about the letter A, B, C and we are on D. What was so amazing was that after we talked about B and looked at Balls and made the B sound, he began saying "Ball" for the first time. 

We did this same thing with the letter C. We talked about how car starts with C and made the c sounds. Then later that week he started saying Car for the first time. What a great way to help expand your child’s vocabulary and encourage talking.

More activities listed below:

Letter D for Tiny Tots
Color Sorting
Sailing in the Ocean and Finger painting with Cornstarch
Sponge painting and golf tee play