Easy and Creative Toddler Crafts

STICKY BALL

Here is an inexpensive way to show infants and toddlers how to improve motor skills (learning how to use their hands) and cognitive skills (learning how to pay attention, think and remember what they learn). Wrap any soft ball in masking tape (or other tape), with the sticky side out. Wrap it and wrap it and wrap it.

Infants and toddlers who roll it around in their hands experiment with how to play with the ball, learning motor and cognitive skills. Older toddlers can roll the sticky ball around with their feet, too.

EASTER ART WITH EGG CARTONS

When toddlers create art, they learn cognitive, mathematics and science skills. Here are colorful crafts you can help them make with empty egg cartons. Parents can cut out the sections that hold the eggs. Toddlers can use crayons or magic markers, non-toxic children’s paint, non-toxic (school) glue, and pieces of pieces of colorful paper. Let younger toddlers simply fill empty egg carton cups with pennies, marbles or other small items. Create and count with them.