The Toddlers Busy Book

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Type: Book
Studio: Meadowbrook
365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your toddler every day of the year.

This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for one-and-a-half to three-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to:

• Prevent boredom during the longest stretches of indoor weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects.

• Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities.

• Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for fun music, food, water, and outdoor activities.

• Keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or cross-town errands.

The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching toddlers.

Satisfied customer
The book arrived quickly and in perfect condition. It is a great book full of ideas to keep a toddler busy. Be prepared to read in advance and stock up or prepare a few activities so you'll be ready to go.

Great book!
As a child care worker, i can never have enough reference books for activities for children. This book is great for keeping toddlers (and older children) occupied at home. Am looking to buy the Preschooler's busy book. thanks ...

Very Helpfull
I found this book very helpfull. I'm a first time mom living far from family and sometimes I just don't know what to do with my daughter. This book gave me some excellent ideas. My only complaint is that my child is still a little young for most of the ideas, but she'll grow into it.

Great idea book for toddlers
This is a great book. It has all sorts of ideas for busy toddlers. My daughter and son-in-law have tried many of the ideas with my granddaughter and love it.

Great, simple activities for toddlers
I purchased this book to quell my daughters' incessant pleas to "play with me," because I had rapidly run out of games to play. The book is full of simple, common sense ideas for toddler activities. As I was reading the book, I found myself thinking, "Now why didn't I think of that?"

The book is divided into sections such as "Rainy Day Play," "Outdoors Play," "Music and Movement," "Out and About" (for activities in the car), and "Seasonal Crafts" (decorations for holidays, including Hannukah and Kwaanza, and homemade gift ideas). Most of the activities require some preparation beforehand, but it is minimal. The book also contains a list of items that the author suggests you keep handy.

In the first chapter, before getting into detailed activities, the author describes some general ideas (e.g. a rainy day box, a chore jar, a baker's box for the kitchen during meal preparation, etc.) that don't require a great deal of supervision (although, it is emphasized that toddlers in general require supervision). The author also gives suggestions for organizing activity times, arranging activities for your babysitter to do with your children, and taking advantage of unexpected free time in order to do activities with your children.

The majority of the activities are extremely practical. Some projects allow a great deal of hands-on interaction between parents and children, while other activities foster independent play. I have a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old, and I have found that most of the projects and activities keep my children occupied for at least 30 minutes, if not longer.