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6 Easy Activities To Keep Young Toddlers Entertained

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My toddler gets bored so easily. I’m trusting this is because she is very intelligent and likes to learn and experience new things, or at least that’s what I keep telling myself. She keeps me on my toes trying to think of new ways to keep her entertained.  In order to keep my sanity and hers, I often end up running to the kitchen in search of a new activity to satisfy her curiosity.
If you’ve got an easily bored toddler like mine, you’ll love some of these activities I’ve found helpful to keep my toddler happy.

Toddler Activity One – Sour Cream Stacker (Ignore the sticky on the craft sticks…my toddler is messy!)

Sour Cream Container With Craft Sticks for a toddler activity
One day out of desperation, I ran into the kitchen. I searched frantically for anything I could find that would keep my toddler from being bored. Out of desperation, I rummaged through the Tupperware drawer, hoping to find an answer there. I found my answer in an old sour cream container. Taking a large knife, I made a hole in the top.

Once the hole was made, I gave my daughter the container and a bunch of craft sticks. My toddler began sticking the sticks in the hole and pulling them out. Mom win. My daughter has another activity to do that she loves.

Sour Cream Container Used as A Toddler Activity

Toddler Activity Two – Kitchen Utensils

My toddler loves using any kitchen utensil as a toy. She paints the walls with a basting brush. She loves the sound the whisk makes as she shakes it. Kitchen utensils make great toys for a toddler.

I pull out all kinds of funny utensils to see what my toddler does with them. She’ll hit the floor with a wooden spoon or go nuts on measuring cups. No matter how loud she gets, it’s always worth it to have a few minutes where she’s busy and out of trouble.

Activity Three – Hotel Keys and Gift Cards

For some reason, my toddler loves to walk around the house with something in her hand. Maybe it’s because she’s a girl and loves multi-tasking? Whatever the reason, she just loves holding things.

A few weeks ago, I set her up with a bunch of old gift cards and hotel keys to play with. She loved it.

Activity Four – Rocks in Containers

Toddler Activity - Rocks in Container

This activity is so basic, but it’s always a hit in our house. I just raid the Tupperware drawer for some old leftover containers. Once I find some that still have lids, I run outside and find a few small rocks, acorns, or sticks. Then I put them in the containers. Once my toddler has a container, it just takes a couple minutes before she realizes that she can shake it and it’s noisy. Her face lights up and she’s shaking away keeping busy.

Activity Five – Kitchen Drawer

I have one drawer in the kitchen that my kids are allowed access. I have it stuffed full of plastic lids, containers, cups, pretty much anything I don’t use that much but is plastic or not breakable.

My kids love it. They love opening the drawers and pulling EVERYTHING out and scattering it all over the floor. Then they play restaurant, feed their stuffed animals or any other crazy game they think up. Currently, my toddler loves bringing me all the plastic cups she can find in the drawer to have me take a drink from. Having their own drawer keeps my kids out of the areas in the kitchen that have breakable items and lets them hang out with mom in the kitchen while I cook.

Activity Six – Newspaper and Mail Wads

I let my one-year-old and three-year-old tear up the old newspaper and take turns throwing it in our recycling bin. They loved every step of this activity. From tearing up mail and newspaper to wadding it into balls and throwing it in the recycling bin. It was a big hit. Both of my kids were entertained and not fighting for about half an hour. I consider that a big win in my book.

These things have been sanity savers for my kids. What are some things you’ve done to keep your kids entertained?

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5 Learning Games for Preschool Boys

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I love activities where my toddler can learn through play. However, raising a preschool age boy, I’ve come to realize that all our games have to involve some sort of vehicle or my preschooler loses interest fast. So here are a few of our favorites.

Counting Practice with Mailboxes

Picture of mailboxes game for preschoolers

This has to be one of my preschool boy’s favorite games. I simply draw mailboxes on our sidewalk or driveway using sidewalk chalk. Then, I write numbers on the mailbox, I usually try for 1-10. Next, I pick up a pile of sticks or rocks and tell my preschooler to deliver the sticks to the mailbox.

For example, I hand him a stick and say could you please take this to mailbox 6? Or here’s a package for 2, and he’s going to be so sad if you don’t help him deliver it. This keeps him busy for a long time. He absolutely loves pretending that he is the mailman. He drives his trike (Mail truck) to each mailbox and puts the stick or rock in. This game has been a huge hit in our house.

Cars Number Recognition Printable

Preschooler Playing Learning Game with Cars

This is an awesome printable from totschooling.net. My preschooler absolutely adores this game. He loves driving the cars on the printable road and finding the corresponding gas pump that matches the car’s number. I threw the roads in sheet protectors and laminated the cars and he loves playing with them. He loves making the noises the gas pump does as he fills each car up with gas. The printable goes up to number 20, so it’s a great way to work on matching skills and number recognition all while your preschooler is playing and having fun!

Letter Practice With Letter Road Game

This game has been awesome for us. It’s not only good for learning, but it gets some of that pent up energy out! When the weather is nice, I take my kids outside and I draw a road of a bunch of “N”‘s or whatever letter I want my preschooler to practice. I call the line of letters a road. Then I get crazy with the letter road.

We pretend that we’re big semis and we walk up and down the letter road honking. Next, we try to jump down the letter road. Then we go really fast down the letter road. We try to keep it fun and keep doing things up and down the letter road. It’s a great game to get some energy out and also teach your preschooler or toddler letter recognition.

Little Blue Truck Activities

Little Blue Truck Learning Game for Preschoolers

If you haven’t read the little blue truck books with your preschooler you need to. The books are so cute and of course have trucks in them, which will keep your little boy excited. There are tons of activities online to do with little Blue Truck, but I really like the matching toads to trucks letter recognition activity found at totschooling.net. My preschooler enjoys matching the toad to the right truck.

Counting Practice With Tractors

Preschool Boy playing tractor counting practice gameMy preschooler loves playing with tractors, so this game is perfect for him. I found a deck of flash cards at the dollar store that we use with this. I place a flash card out on the table and ask him what number is on the card. He will tell me and then I have him get that many pieces of corn and put it into his tractor’s wagon.

We go through the deck of flashcards and let him practice over and over again counting corn. I’ve really seen an improvement in his counting since playing this game.

It’s fun finding a game that incorporates play and learning!

Learning Games Are Great

I love games that keep my preschooler interested and keep him learning. What are some games that you’ve found helpful for teaching your boys colors, letters, shapes and numbers?

Need Ideas to Keep a Young Toddler Entertained? Read: 6 Easy Activities For Young Toddlers

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