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Play Ideas by Age

Explore the world with toddlers: ages 1 to 3
- Pull toys make kids who have just learned to walk want to be on their feet. Make a simple one by stringing cereal boxes or shoeboxes together with a handle for pulling. Make sure the strings between the boxes are a safe length.

- Have a friend over to play. Offer only a few toys-or let them figure out for themselves how they want to play. They may like to chase each other, copy each other, or empty out toy boxes and bookshelves.

- Playing with a ball-whatever its size and whether it's made of foam, plastic, rubber, rolled up socks, or yarn-can be a favorite game for toddlers. Start with rolling the ball across the floor and move to throwing and catching.

- Help your toddler learn new words by naming every day things you see around you, like tree, spoon,

- Experiment with making sounds. A toilet paper, paper towel, or wrapping paper roll can become a megaphone. Your child can have fun making animal noises, whispers, shouts, and other sounds and hearing how different they sound through the various sizes of tubes.

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