Does anyone know of any fun & educational activites that I can do with a two year old? (especially vocabulary builders) but anything would be great. Thanks!
2007-07-26 05:40:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
you can do alphabet coloring pages.... Or shapes and colors. You can also get the read along dvd. My kids love that. I personally use songs to help my kids. They love music so I'll take a song they like and change the words so they will learn something. Like that cartoon Camp Lazlo. My daughter likes that cartoon and she sings the theme song. Which is BINGO... So she has 5 letters in her name. Instead of her singing L-A-Z-L-O she sings J-A-K-Y-A..... JaKya..... Brainstorm you will come up with something
2007-07-26 05:51:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We play with the water hose (filling and emptying buckets, watering the plants, etc), go on search and rescue missions around the house (we look for people or toys in very unlikely places "Is Daddy in the washing machine?" "Is your helicopter in the microwave?" he loves to open and close the doors and say "No Daddy" and then decide the next place to look), we pull out bowls and spoons and pretend to cook using dry cereal, or stack them, or sort lids to plastic storage bowls, we pour water from container to container in the bathtub, play with blocks and magnetic letters and numbers. Draw pictures on a magnetic board and have him make an associated sound or name the drawing. All the while I am describing the colors, shapes, names of items etc. as we play.
Really any activity can be educational. My son has a very large vocabulary for his age, and is using 2 word phrases and just starting to use 3 word sentences (he is 19 mos)
2007-07-26 13:03:06 · answer #2 · answered by ladybmw1218 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The single best thing to do for vocabulary building is to read to your child. Read to them often and read to them for enjoyment. Let her vocabulary take its own time in develpoing. Talk to her in real words and explain things to her as though you expect her to understand. Tell the truth and talk to her about what's going on. Use the real words. Her vocabulary will improve dramatically from reading to her. Read whatever she likes. Read the same books over and over if she wants you to because that's how kids learn and lots of kids her age want to hear the same story again and again. Be sure to have lots of books around so she can choose what she likes. Let her have some that she has total access to and that she can "read" by herself, to herself. The have others that you read to her as well. Yake her to the library and the local bookstore often.
Any time you are talking with your toddler and interacting with her, you are helping to build her vocabulary. She is tuned in to imitating you. Play with her and interact with her and pay attention to her and her vocabulary will show it.
2007-07-26 12:55:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
just talk to them all the time. narrate their day. repeat what they say in the form of a question. the more they're exposed to adults speaking, the better their vocabulary will be.
2007-07-26 12:50:04 · answer #4 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
bubbles. kids love them, and teaching them how to blow them is a great exerise for speach development.
2007-07-26 12:46:02 · answer #5 · answered by hhh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋