Published on 21st August 2025 by Club Hub Support
Toddlers are naturally curious, imaginative, and eager to explore the world around them. By weaving learning into play, you can nurture their development in ways that feel joyful and intuitive. The following activities are designed to spark creativity, build foundational skills, and foster emotional connection—all while keeping your little one engaged and excited.
1. Sensory Treasure Hunt
This fun activity is aimed at improving toddlers’ tactile awareness and vocabulary by hiding textured objects (sponges, feathers, wooden blocks) in a bin of rice or shredded paper. Encourage your toddler to find and describe each item, and this helps build their tactile awareness and vocabulary.
2. Colour Sorting With Everyday Items
A way to help your toddler improve their ability to identify and tell the difference between colours. You can invite your toddler to sort toys, socks, or blocks by colour. This could also be a good way of getting them to tidy their toys away.
3. Mini Scientist: Sink or Float Experiment
Fill a clear tub with water and gather a mix of safe household items, like spoons, a sponge, plastic lids, rubber ducks, and wooden blocks. One by one, let your toddler drop each item into the water and guess whether it will sink or float. Talk about textures, weight, and materials as you go. You can even sort the items afterwards into floaters and sinkers to reinforce patterns. Another small experiment that you can do is Coke and Mentos to show your toddler a cool, fizzy, and explosive experiment.
4. Storytime With Props
Another way to get your toddler learning is by reading a short picture book and using soft toys, puppets and asking them questions that fit into the story to act out scenes. This enhances comprehension of stories, emotional connection, and narrative memory.
5. DIY Shape Puzzle
You can cut out shapes of things that interest your toddlers and then create matching outlines on a board. Toddlers match and fit the pieces. This helps boost spatial reasoning and fine motor skills.
6. Musical Freeze Dance
Another great activity for toddlers that helps them improve their listening skills, impulse control, and rhythm awareness. Play music and dance together, or you can do another activity that your toddler enjoys, and when the music stops, you both freeze.
7. Nature Walk and Collect
Another thing that you could do is take a walk and collect leaves, stones, flowers, and take photos of insects and other animals that you find. You can then, when you get home can sort them by size, colour, texture and identify which species of animals they are. This is a great and gentle way of introduction to science and observation.
Learning at this age doesn’t need to be structured—it thrives in moments of wonder, movement, and shared laughter. Whether you’re sorting colours, dancing to music, or exploring the natural world, these activities help toddlers build confidence, curiosity, and connection.
