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Activities for 1-year-olds
Printable worksheets and hands-on learning activities for 1-year-olds (toddlers). Every activity explains what children learn, what you need and how to run it, with ideas to make it easier or harder.
13 activities
Activities
Talking About the Beach
Look at a beach scene together and discover a sandcastle, a beach umbrella and more. A short activity for pointing and talking.
Picture talk
Vehicle Song
Sing an original song and make sounds and movements for a car, train, airplane, boat, motorcycle, and truck.
Songs & fingerplays
Black and White Fruit
Show your child six black-and-white fruit pictures to look at, point to and hear named.
Picture cards
Posting Colorful Pieces
A child puts large, colorful pieces through an opening in a box, exploring hand movements while hearing the names of colors.
Hands-on activity
Farm Animal Story
Look for a duckling on the farm in a short story with repeated questions, big pictures, and animal sounds.
Story & talk
Toy Clean Up Song
Sing a short, repetitive song while your child helps put away blocks, a book and a doll. The pictures show where each one goes.
Songs & fingerplays
Move Like Animals
Show animal pictures and have fun copying their movements. Your child can walk, sway, crawl or move in their own way.
Movement & dance
Sensory Play with Colored Ice
A short sensory activity to touch ice, watch colored water, and discover what happens when colors mix.
Sensory play
Farm Animals
Show your child large cards featuring eight farm animals and talk about the pictures together.
Picture cards
Object Permanence Box
Play hide-and-find with a shoebox and a large ball. Your child watches the ball fall and discovers where it went.
Hands-on activity
Bath Time Song
Sing an original bath-time song while touching your head, tummy, hands and feet. Picture cues help your child follow along.
Songs & fingerplays
Kitchen Sensory Basket
A baby who can sit explores large kitchen objects while an adult names what the baby touches, sees and hears.
Sensory play
High Contrast Ocean Animals
Show your baby six black-and-white ocean animals and talk about them using short phrases.
Baby look cards