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25 Indoor Activities to Keep Your Toddler Occupied This Winter
Jell-O Excavation at TinkerLab
When cold weather sets in, we spend more and more time indoors. Sure, we aim to get outside for at least a bit each day—maybe for a walk or for some snow play if there’s some new snow, but for the most part we’re in the house. My indoor standbys are reading stories, baking, and getting out the art supplies. Those are all great ways to spend time together indoors, but in preparation for this winter, I’ve been compiling a longer list of ideas to do with my toddler. Some of these I’ve done in the past with my older daughter when she was younger; most I found around the web.
Now I feel prepared. Bring on the winter!
25 indoor activities to try with toddlers:
On a girl and a glue gun
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Misty commented on Nov 22 11 at 11:38 amI thought a lot of these were really cute ideas and wanted to try them with my kids. However, I gave up looking through because none of the links back to the blogs they came from work. :(
Jean Van't Hul commented on Nov 22 11 at 12:56 pmI fixed the links! So sorry about that. There was a minor html error. But I just checked each one and they should be working fine now.
Celestine Tato commented on Nov 23 11 at 6:59 amHave you seen Play at Home Mom blog? They have some AWESOME ideas!!
Stef commented on Nov 24 11 at 10:41 pmCould you make these pages run together instead of having to click on a new picture for every page? It’s annoying on a phone to do that.
Jill @ a mom with a lesson plan commented on Nov 28 11 at 9:42 amThank you for the link!!! I love the list.. great ideas!
jane commented on Dec 04 11 at 2:21 pmFYI, I never read these articles because of the need to click through to each item. I’m always interested in the topic, but when I come and see that I’ll need to click 25 times, I leave. I thought the webmaster might want to know! Love the site otherwise!
lori_p commented on Dec 04 11 at 3:42 pmThank you for the link!!! I love the list.. great ideas! I would also suggest Rice Krispies Holiday treats. Teaching your kids to ‘play’ with food. http://ricekrispiesholiday.ca/whoami
booboo monster commented on Feb 20 12 at 9:25 amwow ..that is the new level of lazy …need to click more then once ….anyway ..thanks for great Ideas …My toddler will love the excavating activity trying tomorrow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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