Activites for 12-18mo. olds???

Question

i work at a daycare and i am in the 12-18mo. room and we do craft or activities and sensory play with them and we have a ton of ideas but i wanted to see if anyone had some ideas we havent thought of yet or a goos website to look around on? thanks...

Answer 1

Here's a couple of sites that might help.

Answer 2

finger painting

breakfast in a long tub and you put spoons in thetub so they can eat it you can have this warm or cold

Answer 3

i have two little siblings and what they like to do is to watch videos that teach them stuff. for example try: dr. seuss, dora, blues clues, or all those children shows that help them learn about something. my little sister is obsessed with them now and she likes to recite whatever she learns from the shows to us.

Answer 4

IDEAS:

1) Story Time

2) Art-painting, drawing, coloring

3) Hide-and-go-seek

4) Tag!

5) Duck Duck Goose

6) Draw a letter on a paper or something, and have them guess?

7) Have them get in a circle and hold something, say 'left' or 'right' and make them pass the thing left or right. And then at the end, the person gets to keep the thing!! You can make a story: "Mrs. Right had a son named Left. Left was never wrong, always right. But Left was right handed."

8) LET THEM DO ANYTHING...THEY'LL FIGURE OUT SOMETHING TO DO...FREE TIME!!

Answer 5

Make them do calculis and reduce fractions and add and subtract fractions....make them read 200-300 paged books and write a 2 page essay. Draw a diagram of the human body....Write a page about the ocean. Make them correct grammar in sentances...That should cover just about all of it!

Answer 6

How about....

Scratch 'n Sniff Homemade Watercolors: http://www.ehow.com/how_2260779_scratch-...

Peanut Butter Playdough: http://www.ehow.com/how_2256921_peanut-b...

Jello Playdough:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2256921_peanut-b...

Kool Aid Playdough: http://www.ehow.com/how_2256913_make-koo...

Chocolate Scented Playdough: http://www.ehow.com/how_2262093_playdoug...

Frosting Playdough:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2256916_make-fro...

Hope this helps!

Answer 7

Remember, the smaller the child the faster he has to learn whatever is around him and get used to it.Read picture books to the children. Yes, the children won't understand anything but still if you come across a picture of a chicken point to it and say chicken.Also do face expressions and say how they are called. Pretend that the children are grown-up people that understand everything you say.

Answer 8

I would suggest doing painting.  Children this age love it.  Body paint is so fun.  Take their clothes off, everything except their diaper and give them a large piece of paper, about the size of their body.  Use food coloring with vanilla pudding, cool- whip, condensed milk, etc.  They will love it, and it tastes good too!  Other fun ideas are to have them glue things onto paper, this really helps their fine motor skills.  Splatter some glue, in small amounts, and non-toxic, on paper and give them small torn or cut up pieces of paper to put on the glue.  If you do a theme on the book Rainbow Fish it works really well and correlates good!  They can also do things such as dance and sing.  If you teach them a song such as open close them at meal time they will remember and do the hand motions.  I hope this helps!