We do activities and toys rotation for each day of the week, and here’s our Friday box of activities. Here is a link for all our activity boxes: daily activities and toy rotation for 12-18 month olds.
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Straw pieces drop
We have large straws that I cut into smaller pieces. The pieces should be large enough not to fit into baby’s mouth if she tries to eat it. Scarlett loves to drop them into a bottle, and to watch them fall out when she turns the bottle upside down. Great for development of hand eye coordination and fine motor skills.
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Pompoms and cupcake liners play
Pompoms are so cute, that I want to play with them myself 🙂 It doesn’t take much to entertain Scarlett with pompoms as well. She had fun placing them in mini-cupcake liners grouping them by her own toddler logic and commenting her actions in her own baby language. We use 2 sets: large pompoms
Do You Want A Hug Book
Scarlett loves Frozen and, of course, she loves this book because it’s all about Olaf. I hope it will teach her about hugs because she is not a hugger 🙂
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Zipper and snaps practice
I sewed 2 Scarlett’s baby outfits on a felt sheet so she can practice opening zipper and snaps. She can’t handle snaps yet but she’s doing some progress with a zipper already. This is a great skill that will help her learn how to dress and undress herself later on.
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Stickers on a page in a clear sheet protector
I tried to give a sticker book to Scarlett but I noticed that she would immediately try to take off a sticker after placing it. So I took a page from a sticker book and placed it in a clear sheet protector. This allowed her to take off stickers and place them to a different area. Stickers still don’t last too long, but at least they are not used just once.
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Matching lids to jars.
I placed jars inside a box, and taped the drawing of birds on top. Jars have to be placed in the spots where the birds bodies are. The child then places lids on jars and completes the picture. I painted the lids later in 3 different colors to match the drawing. Here is a link for a Printable for lids and jars.
If you liked this post, check out Saturday box of activities.
Hi! I’ve been happily printing and using your activities since i discovered them the past week, building daily boxes for my 19 month old son. Thank you so much for sharing. I have a question- with the bird jar box, have you figured out how to keep the jars from rotating? My son enjoys turning the lids to fully close them and the jar just rotates in the box…
Hi Susan! I’m glad you liked the activities! We did the bird jar box 2 years ago, so I don’t remember too well how I did it. Perhaps one option could be to leave the bottom of the box open, and you could hold the jars while your son is trying to turn the lid. Another option could be to use super glue to glue the bottoms of the jars to the bottom of the box. Too bad I didn’t make a picture of this activity after I painted the lids in colors – red, blue and yellow. We mainly used this activity to match the colors.