Ideas for inside activities for toddlers

There is clean in the house only when children are at their grandparents... told somebody. This happened to be our case this week, as our toddler stayed with his grandparents (my parents-in-law). And now, I have plenty of time to prepare new toddler activities, for upcoming days, for our toddler.

Today, I will share just a part of prepared inside activities for toddlers. Something I have bought, something I decide to do myself. I am more of DYI, but sometimes I need some inspiration, and books are just perfect combination of DYI activities and professional activities :).

1. Crafting/ Painting - I know that our toddler enjoys painting. I proposed to make some crafts, easy ones, that he will enjoy to paint. I choose to craft objects that are well known by my toddler, as butterflies, cars and motorcycles. He will paint these objects with watercolors.

The main objective of this inside activity is to develope his fine motor skill of handling the brush and to take watercolor with the brush. Another objective is to learn colors and associate a color with an object.

2. BOOKS - I think books are the easiest inside activity for mums, as there are a plenty of things to do, written by professionals in this field and you just have to read and decide what to do with your kid. The books that I have bought for our toddler are about maths, letters and discovering the nature. As you can see, these books are for prescholar kids, that is why I will change excercises to be easier to make.

What I propose to do:
- to learn properly counting, and to count objects, I mean not just expect my toddler to count from 1 to 10, but to count like 1 potato, 2 potatoes and so on.
- to discover what is the weather and how it is changes. Ex. Wind, Rain, Sunshine etc.
- to learn small poems
- to learn new fruits, vegetables, things that we haven't learnt yet

Next week I will share with you an update of these great inside toddler activities, and how my toddler enjoys playing.