What are some fun activities for 16 month olds?

Question

I have two 16 month olds, and would love to hear ideas from other mothers about some activities (safe and clean) we could do at home.

Answer 1

There is a book called "You and Your Small Wonder". I don't remeber the author. It is full of acitivies to do in the home with little expence for toddlers.

I used it with my nephew, who I take care of while his mother is a work. I highly recomend it.

It has fun activities and activities designed to make children think and learn.

Answer 2

Crayola Color Wonder finger paints! My daughter loves them and they truly only color on the paper. It's like painting with chapstick on your fingers, but you can see the colors on the Color Wonder paper. Non-toxic, and you don't have to watch them too closely if they're in their seats or at the table. I wouldn't recommend the Color Wonder markers just yet, just from my experience, because my daughter loved to bite the tips off!! Simple (and free!) things to do would be put on music and dance, sing songs with motions (Ring around the Rosy, The Wheels on the Bus, etc.), put a blanket over 2 sturdy pieces of furniture and crawl through the "tunnel" (especially when someone is "chasing" them!), blowing bubbles in the bath, filling a basin with warm water and suds with a few dishes/cups so that they can wash dishes like mommy, making drums out of containers and plastic spoons-- anything they see at this age has the potential to be fun, which is the best part!

Answer 3

I play fetch with my 20 month old twins. I will throw a ball or stuffed animal down the hall and they bring it back to me. They LOVE it and will keep at it for a long time. I will also get them to dance and march around the house by putting on music.

Answer 4

I have a 19 month old, and we sit around and play with anything and everything around the house... our favorite is to sit and I read books to him, but with a twist.... instead of reading the stories to him, I tell him what the pictures are and then I ask him to point out the different pictures in the book.... at his 19 months, he knows to identify animals, colors, and knows animal sounds...

Answer 5

My son is the comparable age and that i dont enable any television. those are somethings that we do. I additionally watch yet another infant too. We fingerpaint, coloration with crayons or markers, outdoors play to the park or only on walks they like it, nature walks are large I ask them what they see outdoors like (birds, sticks, leaves, bunny and what coloration issues are), trucks and autos, development with blocks, storybooks, sing songs, counting video games, examine books, track time with gadgets. We additionally play make have faith like pretending like a shape worker and fixing issues with approaches. If she isn't into which you will play homestead, have a tea occasion, play with the infant dolls, bypass grocery procuring with the fake nutrition, my babies love speaking on the telephone and calling human beings on the fake telephone, we fake to be dinosaurs. now and lower back as quickly as we bypass on walks we like to observe the form workers development a house. My babies never lose interest I continually attempt to combine issues up.

Answer 6

give them random things to chew on

nothing they will choke on