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Activities for 2-year-olds

Printable worksheets and hands-on learning activities for 2-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.

16 activities

Activities

Potty Training Certificate
Age 2 5 min

Potty Training Certificate

Celebrate a potty training milestone with a certificate to fill in and a space for your child to draw.

Award certificate

Fruit Skewers
Age 2 10 min

Fruit Skewers

Use a picture recipe to wash, choose and taste fruit. A grown-up makes the skewer and removes the stick before serving.

Cooking together

Happy and Sad Faces
Age 2 5 min

Happy and Sad Faces

Look at happy and sad faces, point to them, and name the feelings. Talk about what brings joy and what can help when someone feels sad.

Feelings & emotions

Tracing Big Circles
Age 2 8 min

Tracing Big Circles

Trace big circles with a finger and pencil, color round objects, and draw a circle.

Shapes

Color Matching With Sponges
Age 2 8 min

Color Matching With Sponges

Scoop colorful sponges from water and put each one in a matching container. Explore colors and movements through water play.

Hands-on activity

Fire Truck Puzzle
Age 2 10 min

Fire Truck Puzzle

Color a fire truck and put together a four-piece puzzle with help from an adult.

Picture puzzle

Find Soft Things
Age 2 8 min

Find Soft Things

Look around the home for eight soft things and mark the pictures you find. A gentle observation and conversation game to play with an adult.

Scavenger hunt

Trace Lines With Vehicles
Age 2 7 min

Trace Lines With Vehicles

Follow five vehicles to their garages by tracing dotted straight lines with a finger or crayon.

Pre-writing lines

Learning the Color Yellow
Age 2 8 min

Learning the Color Yellow

Color four pictures yellow, then look for yellow things at home with an adult.

Colors

Sort Clothes for Hot and Cold
Age 2 8 min

Sort Clothes for Hot and Cold

Sort eight clothing pictures into two groups: cold and hot days. A simple activity to enjoy with an adult.

Sort and classify

Count Ladybugs to 3
Age 2 8 min

Count Ladybugs to 3

Count six groups of ladybugs and circle the matching number with an adult’s help.

Counting

Match Farm Animals and Babies
Age 2 8 min

Match Farm Animals and Babies

Match each farm mom to her baby. With an adult's help, name the animals and notice how they look alike.

Matching

Chick and Flowers Coloring Page
Age 2 5 min

Chick and Flowers Coloring Page

A coloring page featuring a chick hatching among flowers. Children explore colors and make their own marks with crayons.

Coloring page

Bedtime Routine
Age 2 5 min

Bedtime Routine

A six-picture chart to follow the evening routine and mark each completed step.

Routine chart

Ages 0–2 5 min

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
Ages 0–2 5 min

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