At age two, your toddler is starting to develop abilities to strategize and understand simple concepts, acquire new vocabulary, and learn to sort colors and shapes. They are also developing hand-eye coordination, balance, spatial recognition, and social skills.
These games of concentration and memory, pretend play, art activities, sensory bin ideas, and colorful crafts will give them plenty of opportunities to develop their growing skills while letting their imagination run wild!
1. Gingerbread Cloud Dough Sensory Bin
This gingerbread sensory bin includes scented cloud dough to engage the senses and cookie cutters to give toddlers plenty of fine motor practice.
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2. Marbled Doily Hearts
Using a bit of shaving cream, paint, and paper doilies, these marbled hearts can be used as textured wrapping paper, room decoration, or for sharing heartfelt notes with family and friends.
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3. Kitchen Match-Up
Your toddler will love matching everyday kitchen utensils to their proper places on this memory board. Aside from being a fun challenge, this game builds spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills while developing vocabulary.
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4. Size Sorting Box
This simple but engaging game challenges young learners to sort markers, crayons, or objects of their choice into their proper slots.
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5. Have Fun with a Colorful Game
This color-matching game requires toddlers to use fine motor skills to maneuver Duplo blocks to their correct places on the board. To further enhance their learning, you can say the name of each color out loud as they fill in each space with the correct block.
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6. Number Two Learning Game
This is a great way to celebrate your toddler turning two. Apart from tracing and coloring the number, you can cut and paste their favorite objects while practicing their counting skills.
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7. Learn Shapes with a Physical Activity
This fun two-year-old activity requires only a small ball and some painter's tape formed into various shapes. As the ball rolls over each shape, you can encourage them to call out their names to reinforce their learning.
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8. Cork Painted Snowflake Craft
This colorful craft requires only construction paper and some corks to use for painting but why not let your toddler's imagination run wild and incorporate glitter, stickers, or even form beads?
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9. Bubble Painting With Bubble Blowers
This creative painting activity requires only a bubble mixture and liquid food coloring to create some truly striking art.
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10. DIY Cut-Up Straw Bracelet
This DIY colored straw bracelet is a simple and inexpensive activity for learning about patterns and colors while developing fine motor skills.
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11. Create A School of Colorful Forked Fish
These colorful fish require only card stock, tempera paints, and plastic forks. Young learners can get creative experimenting with different ways to hold the fork by either tapping, scratching, or whirling them to create a variety of different patterns and shapes.
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12. Make Some Bubble Wrap Eggs
Bubble wrap makes for a fun and interesting texture for kids to explore, as well as a great way to develop their fine motor and sensory skills, as they have to resist the urge to press down too hard and pop the bubbles.
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13. Giant Water Bead Activity
These large, transparent, and colorful beads are not only biodegradable but very versatile. They are squishy and fun to stretch out or break into pieces, making them an ideal choice for sensory play as well as to develop cognitive and social skills and practice counting.
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14. Make a "Fill it Up" Station
This is a perfect game for learning scooping and filling skills while having lots of messy fun in the process.
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15. Make Your Own Edible Play Dough
This edible play dough can be made from everyday kitchen ingredients, using a simple dough recipe that can be flavored with additional ingredients of your choice. No need to worry about toddlers putting it in their mouth, as they most surely will try!
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16. Hide-and-Seek Matching Game
This hide-and-seek matching game involves finding pairs of objects in a sensory bin. It's a hands-on way to develop problem-solving, counting, and sorting skills.
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17. Practice Typing Skills With Keypress Games
These free, online keypress games are an excellent way to teach your toddler how to press keys, move the mouse and click and drag across the screen.
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18. Play With Frozen Beads
These frozen water beads start out the size of a grain of rice and grow larger when placed in water. Watching them grow can be just as fun as playing with them!
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19. Age-Old Game For Toddlers Using Soap Paint
Letting your toddler play in the tub with this soap-based take on paint is an easy way to contain the mess of their artistic creations.
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20. Trucks and Oats Sensory Bin
This simple activity consists of toy trucks and oats. Apart from being super easy to set up, it encourages imaginative play, sensory exploration, focus, and self-control.
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21. Explore Floating and Sinking with Bath Toys
Bath time is not only relaxing and fun but a great opportunity for learning about the concept of floating and sinking. You can play this enjoyable game with toys of different weights while guessing and discussing whether each will sink or float.
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22. Velcro Dots Tower
This fun activity consists of matching colorful blocks to a plastic tower using velcro dots. It's an engaging way to build color recognition, counting, sorting, and fine motor skills.
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23. Have Fun With Tiny PomPoms
This simple activity consists of placing pompoms on a sticky fish bath toy. Matching the pompoms to the scooped pockets makes for a fun but challenging coordination activity.
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24. Explore the Beauty of Flowers
Fresh flowers make for a wonderful opportunity to explore cutting, arranging, bouquet making, vase placing, and petal plucking and sorting.
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25. Make Some Colorful Butterfly Art
Your toddler will love making their own butterfly using glitter glue, shiny stars, and some googly eyes. Why not take them outside for some flying fun in the garden?
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26. Bubble Wrap Grapes
This fruity twist on bubble wrap will give your toddler a chance to paint, print, and play with the fun texture to their heart's delight!
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27. Wear Sunglasses
After cutting out a pair of sunglasses from Post It notes, find a book or magazine with pictures of humans or animals and have your toddler attach and remove them on each character. Apart from being a fun game of concentration, this activity also develops hand and eye coordination.
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28. Make Farm Animals from Paper Plates
Using some colorful paint, paper plates, and plenty of imagination, toddlers will love making their own adorable farm animals. They can create chicks, cows, lambs, or whatever animal their creative minds can come up with!
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29. Rainbow Matching Puzzle
Your two-year-old will adore this colorful rainbow matching game! Matching is a classic game for practicing the concept of parts and whole while developing visual discernment skills.
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30. Make Handprint Firework Art
This easy handprint craft makes for a creative way to keep track of how your toddler is growing month to month or year to year.
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