Games for delayed two year old toddler?
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Mom of One in Wisconsin asked:
Can anyone recommend any? It seems as if my toddler wants new things and is getting tired of blocks, plush toys, etc. She does play with and pretend to feed dolls, and loves interactive games on sesameworkshop.org. Can anyone recommend a game that we could play, besides peek-a-boo? She’s too young for Memory, Lucky Ducks, etc. Also they have to be sitting and or standing games (something to do while standing would be great for toning her legs) as she’s not walking yet.
She has Little People toys to learn animals sounds, numbers, and ABC’s. I was hoping for a board game or cards (she has learning flash cards) that we could play together.
She has an activity table and seems bored with it as we using daily in physical therapy as an incentive for her to stand.
Storybook Adventure with Traveling Bear
Can anyone recommend any? It seems as if my toddler wants new things and is getting tired of blocks, plush toys, etc. She does play with and pretend to feed dolls, and loves interactive games on sesameworkshop.org. Can anyone recommend a game that we could play, besides peek-a-boo? She’s too young for Memory, Lucky Ducks, etc. Also they have to be sitting and or standing games (something to do while standing would be great for toning her legs) as she’s not walking yet.
She has Little People toys to learn animals sounds, numbers, and ABC’s. I was hoping for a board game or cards (she has learning flash cards) that we could play together.
She has an activity table and seems bored with it as we using daily in physical therapy as an incentive for her to stand.
Storybook Adventure with Traveling Bear
Rare Ty Beanie Babies
Does she have an activity table? There are ones that grow with the child. Tehy can pull themselves up and stand and play music, learn colors, shapes, etc. Also just reading to them can help. My son is 2 1/2, and was born almost 3 months early and can already read his own name, and recognizes almost all the letters of the alphabet. We have a alphabet poster in his room and at least once a day we go over it.
Character Plush
Do NOT buy Lucky Ducks! It is so loud you can hear it outside my house with all the doors and windows closed (brick house!!)!!!
We bought a doll that talked but you had to teach it to talk (for instance, it would say Wawa! and you would say Water and it would say Wawa again, and you correct it again and they it would say Water! Mommy, can I have some water?) It was really cute, but I don’t know if you can get them anymore.
Good luck!
Rare Ty Beanie Babies
I found signing flashcards. We also do these verbally for naming the animals. Any kind of music is also great for developing minds under 5, even just banging on stuff. Also my kids love their sand and water table.
Also you could make a felt board to stand by on the wall. And do some basic animal shapes and velcro on the shapes and on the wall. (I may do this – thanks for sparking my creativity here!)
Build a custom stuffed animal
Perhaps she would like Statue. You move around until you yell out statue then everyone has to stand really still, like a statue.
Build a custom stuffed animal
The wooden puzzles that look like animals etc..
Stacking nesting blocks
Flash cards with ABC’s or numbers or animals
Clapping games like Miss Mary Mack
All these could be done while standing or sitting.
The puzzle games can be frustrating, but VERY good for their motor development
Stacking things helps with this too
The flash cards help them associate pictures or shapes of things to words. My son and I get pics of animals and practice the names of them along with the sounds and the pictures
Clapping games are imitating, VERY good and fun
Like-Like Stuffed Animals
My eldest decided to start walking at 18 months alot later then my other two children (7.5 months and 9 months) if you don’t mind the mess a sandpit is great for them to learn how to use their reflexes (filling a bucket etc..) playdoh, buckets with water and plastic cups, they can also play with plastic animals in all of these situatons, lay a blackboard on the floor and let the child draw with chalk while sitting, make a ramp and get some small cars for the child to race down the ramp with, don’t limit the toys to the *** of the child .. my three girls play with girls and boys toys.
My eldest may have got moving a little slower than others but she is a very smart girl now and extremely sensible, my mother bought a lot of movies like the lion king which she would then play act with her animals. She also loved sticker books and magnets (you’ll need a white board).
I hope this helps.
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Matching games. make cut outs that match the holiday or season. Like winter time gloves make them different colors or patterns have her match them.
Finding games. make again something that matches a theme. ex: leaves Make cut outs you can find patterns online and hide them around the room. Under things and behind things. With easter around the corner kids love to play easter bunny.
Exercise. I watch a 2 year old and she loves to exercise. I put in an exercise video of her moms and she loves it.
Plush Slippers
It is not necessary to get toys as many a times you will find them playing with the box where the toy came in and not the toy itself. Try simple games like balls, naming body parts etc.
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