Literacy & ABCs
Math & 123sToddlers11 Comments
Teaching your toddler at home is as easy as 1, 2, 3 or A, B, C! Learning activities for toddlers are super simple to DIY with these 15 easy activity ideas.
Working with your toddler on “school” type work covers the basics. Like, the basic basics: colors, numbers, letters, and shapes.
The focus should really be on play, and not on testing or desk work.
Some basic things an older toddler will start to learn are:
- Differentiating colors
- Differentiating shapes
- Recognizing letters
- Recognizing numbers
I’ve collected a few activities to get your wheels turning on how to help a toddler start to recognize these.
15 At-Home Activities for Toddlers to Learn
Color & Shape Activities for Toddlers
Pairing up colors and shapes in learning activities can lead to endless possibilities! Which activity will you be trying first?
Find more 10 indoor toddler activities!
ABCs & 123s! More Learning for Toddlers
Working on letter and number recognition can be super fun, and really easy. Try out these learning activities for toddlers at home together!
Don’t forget to check out these other toddler resources!
- 50 Activities Just for your Toddler
- 30 Creative Toddler Craft & Art Projects
- 10 Indoor Activities for Toddlers
Does your toddler already have a good start at his ABCs and 123s? Check out these additional resources for more advanced activities:
- 40 Awesome Number Activities for Preschoolers
- 50 Incredible Alphabet Activities for Preschoolers
- 35 Name Activities for Preschoolers
I’ve been trying to brainstorm all the areas that toddlers are learning. Everything is a learning adventure for our little ones!
I’m curious about what else a toddler might enjoy (or need to) learn?
I’d love to hear what your toddler is learning with you!
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carol says
Love these ideas of learning. I love playing lets match with different flash cards. we both get 4 cards each and pile the rest. we take turns turning one over if it matches the card we have we take it. we do this till all the cards are matched up. she doesn’t even realize she is learning her colors,numbers,abc Most importantly she is learning, taken turns, sharing and being a good sport.
Lee Orlian says
This is super creative and I love it! How important it is to encourage our children to reinvent the way they play and and spark new ideas in their developing minds! Truly inspiring! Thank you for sharing!
Brenda says
I like your site, I work with 1 year olds and sometimes I have trouble with ideas to do and make.
Isabell says
I am a Early Child-hood student with open polytechnic one of my tasks was to plan a play plan for a toddler at my kindergarten as part of my pactruim and work experience I was lost for ideas until I saw your site I have chosen three activities that I will share with a toddler and observe His reaction and how he will be able to learn from this with my help. Thank-you
cassidy says
love all these amazing ideas!!!
amy says
I believe some one and a half year olds understand some simple opposites, such as
On/off, up/down, sit/stand, in/out….. Just to name a few. When I get my little one year old niece
Dressed I say shirt on, and when I take it off I say shirt off, same with her shoes. I think about
Things I do on an everyday basis that can help her understand simple opposites.
Nikuita Burke says
I work in a daycare I need some idea on what to teach one year olds
Deborah says
When my children were young, I ran an in-home day-care. One of the things that the children always loved was being involved in the food. I baked all the bread for the day-care children. They loved helping! They also liked having thier own little section of the garden. And starting plants in the window. Picking and eating what they grew was wonderful for them too.
We also made snack time an activity; round and square crackers, raisins, grapes, carrot slices, banana slices, peanut butter, sunflowerseeds, just to mention a few. A little dab of peanut butter for glue and anything will stick to a cracker. Decorate like an ornament or faces and eat yummy. Sometimes you can get them to try new foods, just because it looked good on their cracker artwork. ;) Now I provide day-care for my grandson, can’t wait till he can eat peanut butter!
Sheen says
What awesome ideas, and you sound like a wonderful grandma and person!
jode@mummymusingsandmayhem says
Great collection of ideas…thanks for sharing!
Susanne@babyhuddle says
Some really fab ideas here, have shared- thank you!
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