40 Things to do with your toddler at least once this year

1. Make a nature collage
2. Teach him a nursery rhyme
3. Sing a song
4. Go for a walk in the forest
5. Dance to music
6. Create a scavenger hunt for your toddler. It can be as simple as hiding gummy bears in random places and giving your little one hints on where to find them.
7. Draw with chalk on the sidewalk
8. Bake cookies together
9. Make popcorn and watch a movie
10. Make an easy puzzle with felt and Velcro
11. Go to the puppet theatre
12. Put on a home puppet show
13. Go to the zoo
14. Collect rocks and paint them.
15. Let your toddler paint in the bathtub
16. Run through a Sprinkler
17. Have a book reading day(read at least 20 children books in one day)
18. Create a book using pictures from magazines.
19. Create a book using pictures of family members
20. Make a Mummy with toilet paper
21. Make your own flashcards
22. Go swimming
23. Make a shoe-box train for stuffed animals
24. Fly a kite together
25. Sleep in a tent outside for a night
26. Make a cereal necklace
27. Make a paper plate mask
28. Go To a "Mommy and Me" class in the community where your child can be around other children and experience music, crafts, using their bodies, etc.
29. Tie dye T-shirts and matching socks
30. Play with a bucket of water and a sponge
31. Plant seeds and grow something together
32. Have a picnic
33. Make a playhouse out of a large box!
34. Teach your toddler to count to ten
35. Ask your toddler to go around the house and get things of certain color: green, red, blue.
36. Play a musical instrument together
37. Use a paper towel tube as a megaphone!
38. Make a Shape Puzzle
39. Make a fort using an old sheet over your coffee table or kitchen table.
40. Collect conkers and make little people out of them