My 5 year old and I are completely in love with this one-player game. What a great way to get kids to exercise their brains and learn to face a challenge. Product: Rush Hour Jr. Company: Think Fun Website: www.thinkfun.com/rushhourjr Recommended Age Range: 5 to 7 years Price Range: $20 Amazon ...
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Raffle Ticket Egg Hunt
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My kids love doing Easter egg hunts at Easter so much that we sort of do them all year round, particularly in the months leading up to and following Easter. However, what I don't like about Easter egg hunts is that we used to always fill the eggs with food. Since we do them so frequently, I'd moved ...
Homemade Ball Can
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I made one of these for my first child when he was about 14 months old, based on the wonderful book by Tricia Kuffner, The Toddlers Busy Book. My son LOVED this toy so much I dragged it with us on a cross country flight to Maine even though I packed as lightly as humanly possible. (It may have been ...
Robot Turtles
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Product: Robot Turtles Company: Think Fun Website: http://www.robotturtles.com/ Recommended Age Range: 4 to 8 years Price Range: ~$20 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: My 4.5 year old and I are seriously loving this game. When I started college 15 years ago, I knew I wanted to do ...
Homemade Non-Reading Treasure Hunt
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Ever since my first child was a toddler, I've thought it would be fun to make a treasure hunt for him, with clues so he could go from one clue to the next until he found the treasure. The only problem was, he couldn't read. I tried a couple times writing down simple instructions on slips of paper ...
Personalized Picture Book
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When I had my first child, this personalized picture book was seriously the most useful "toy" I owned when he was around 16 months to 2 years old. He LOVED this book. Sitting down and looking at this book with him could honestly stop any meltdown dead in its tracks. He loved pointing out and saying ...
Pocket Matching Game
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This idea was taken straight out of The Toddler's Busy Book by Trish Kuffner (pg. 177). Now that I have multiple kids, I don't need ideas to keep my toddler busy. The bigger kid does that without trying for the most part. However, when it was just me and my first toddler home alone all day, I used a ...
Travel Connect 4
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Product: Travel Connect 4 Company: Hasbro Website: www.hasbro.com Recommended Age Range: 3 years and up Price Range: ~$10 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: We have an older version of travel Connect Four than the one presently being sold, but I imagine the current version is still a ...
Homemade Treasure Map Game
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I've always thought it would be a fun to make a treasure map for my preschooler. What actually motivated me to do it now was that I know a kindergartener who is having a hard time remembering how to identify certain numbers (like 11, 12, and 13). I wanted to come up with a fun way for him to be ...
Homemade Toy Mailbox
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I made this mailbox for my son when he was about a 18 months old (so almost 3 years ago). He played with it for a long time as a toddler, then ignored it for awhile, then started playing with it again about a year ago when he wanted to play a more elaborate preschool version of "post office". Now I ...
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