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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
Celebrate a potty training milestone with a certificate to fill in and a space for your child to draw.
Award certificate
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
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
Trace big circles with a finger and pencil, color round objects, and draw a circle.
Shapes
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
Color a fire truck and put together a four-piece puzzle with help from an adult.
Picture puzzle
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
Follow five vehicles to their garages by tracing dotted straight lines with a finger or crayon.
Pre-writing lines
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
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
Count six groups of ladybugs and circle the matching number with an adult’s help.
Counting
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
A coloring page featuring a chick hatching among flowers. Children explore colors and make their own marks with crayons.
Coloring page
Bedtime Routine
A six-picture chart to follow the evening routine and mark each completed step.
Routine chart
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