Development games for 3 year olds

Sizes Game for kids. Animal Sounds: Zoo and Farm. Mini Games for kids: Dress Up Pets. Snow Santa Potato Head. Jigsaw Puzzles for Children. Shadows of Means of Transport. Animal Shapes Game. Jigsaw Games for Kids. Geometric Shapes Puzzle.

Touching Equal Animals. Virtual Xylophone. The 5 Senses in Action. Visual Discrimination: find duplicates. Autumn Vertical Jigsaw Puzzle. Hidden Objects: School. Typing Game. Find same Figure Game. Puppy Care Educational Game. Let your toddler shake it around and discover glitter, pebbles, and other objects as they turn it.

Make sure the bottle is securely sealed and filled with age appropriate items. Helps baby develop visual skills and arm strength. Food Prints: Food is not just for eating, you can paint with it too!

Cut an apple in half and use it as a stamp. Your toddler can also use carrots to roll around in the paint. Helps baby develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Games to Play Pom Pom Push: Cut holes into a lid on a box and have your toddler push pom poms or cotton balls through the holes. Different sized holes can create new challenges. Some they can drop, others they will have to push through. Helps to develop fine motor and visual skills, and sense of touch.

Let your toddler roll different objects down it to learn about how gravity works. Helps baby develop ability to use eyes to track objects and taking turns if with peers. Games to Play Search Out: Get brightly colored objects, like bouncy balls, and place them around the living room.

Let your toddler walk around and try to find them. Your toddler can count them out as they find them. Helps baby develop visual and language skills. Build Up, Knock Down: Your toddler may be used to toys that click into place as you build them up. This time, use regular wooden blocks to build a tall tower and let them knock it down. Helps baby build visual and fine motor skills, and is a good way for practicing using two hands together. Drawing scribbles on the sidewalk or driveway is a chance for your toddler to get creative and have fun.

Helps baby builds fine motor, visual, and sensory touch skills. Melting Ice: Put water with drops of food coloring in an ice tray and freeze them. Let your toddler put the ice into a bin of room temperature water. The ice will melt and the color will spread out.

Helps baby's fine motor and visual skills, and sense of touch. Pound your feet on the floor. A wolf is howling? Give it your best howl. Helps baby develop language skills and keeps their attention. Eye Dropper Art: Put paint into an eye dropper and let your toddler squeeze the top to make the paint come out and create a new kind of artwork.

This may take practice so don't get discouraged if your little one can't do this right away. Helps baby develop fine motor, sensory motor, and visual skills. Helps baby develop gross motor skills, balance, and coordination. Tossing: Let your toddler throw balls into a laundry basket. Use different sized balls with varying levels of bounce to help them learn the proper amount of force to use while tossing. Helps baby develop visual-motor and body awareness skills.

Set down a hula hoop and have your toddler gather the balls and put them inside the hoop. Helps baby use visual, gross motor, and communication skills, sense of touch, and improve ability to follow directions. Play Chef: Play chef and have your toddler fill measuring cups with cheerios. Then let them serve you the snack. They won't understand the different measurements, but scooping and dumping will be fun.

Helps baby develop executive function, fine motor, and play skills. Games to Play Bowling: Set up empty water bottles to make bowling pins. Show your toddler how to roll the ball to knock down the pins. Helps baby build hand-eye coordination and practice balance. Puzzles: Get a simple shape puzzles made of foam or wood for your toddler to complete.

They'll have fun putting together the puzzle and finding a picture of their favorite characters at the end. Helps baby develop visual and fine motor skills.

Games to Play Playing with Play Dough and Clay: Giving your toddler play dough or clay to play with is a fun and easy cleanup! Pushing the play dough or clay into different sized containers and then taking it out can also be fun. Helps baby's fine motor skills and sense of touch. Bubble Wrap: Give your toddler bubble wrap and let them pop all the bubbles. Have them try popping them with only their index finger and thumb. Helps baby develop fine motor, auditory , and visual skills. Games to Play Imitate New Words: Say some new words and let your toddler imitate you, trying to repeat what you said.

Make a game out of it. Use pillows, plastic cones, ribbons, scarves, masking tape or twigs to outline the course. As your child grows and becomes more adept at navigating it, make it harder for her. Add twists, turns and obstacles to jump over, or call out different motions to make as she works her way through. Your child is also building fundamental reading skills.

Literacy activities for 3-year-olds and older preschoolers can also include viewing art. Encourage Budding Social and Emotional Skills The transition into pre-k brings a change from the me-me-me attitude of the toddler time to a much more cooperative mindset. Your child is ready to follow rules, share with others and work out solutions to conflicts, notes the AAP.