20 Activities For Toddlers At Home

Rainy days have you looking for indoor activities for toddlers? Here are 20 fun toddler activities to keep your little one entertained. Enjoy!

1. Squirt Painting

If you’re looking for toddler painting ideas, you can’t go past this messy & fun squirt painting project.

2. Line Tape City

If your toddler loves driving cars around & pretend play, build an easy line tape city using removable tape which won’t damage your walls or floor. Hours of fun!

3. Sensory Bag

There are so many sensory activities for toddlers, but this ocean sensory bag is one of our favourites! It’s super easy to make, and will keep little hands entertained for ages.

4. Paint Splat Art

Painting for kids is always so much fun, and this activity is no exception. Put blobs of paint on a sheet of paper, cover with cotton rounds & let them enjoy splatting the paint out with their toy hammer. 

5. Sight Word Building

If your toddler shows signs of recognising letters, sight word games like these educational building bricks are perfect for helping them to learn some basic words.

6. Colour Sorter

A great way to learn colours & use those fine motor skills. Simply recycle cardboard tubes, paint them the appropriate colour and buy a bag of pom poms to make an easy colour sorter. 

7. Cloud Paper Pillow

Another one of our favourite fine motor skills activities, these adorable clouds teach kids how to thread and make a great decoration for their play area or bedroom. 

8. Sticky Collage

Looking for art activities for kids to help them create their next masterpiece? Don’t look past this contact collage activity!

9. Busy Board

What little boy or girl wouldn’t love a homemade busy board full of buttons, flaps & dials?

10. Pasta Threading

A list of toddler activities wouldn’t be complete without pasta threading. A cheap and easy activity, stick some paper straws into play dough & let your toddler thread uncooked pasta on it.

11. Hammer Tees

Do you have a budding Bob the Builder? Fine motor activities where they can get stuck into their tool kit will be sure to be a hit.

12. Counting Activity

Does your toddler love counting games? We love this simple counting activity using cupcake patties, pom poms & tongs.

13. Alphabet Monster

I love how you can recycle things to make new toys! Use a wipes container & bottle lids to create an alphabet learning game for your toddler.

14. Cotton Ball Painting

Great for little hands & exploring texture & colour, painting for toddlers is heaps of fun with cotton balls.

15. Pool Noodle Mix N Match

Looking for fun things to do at home? This pool noodle mix ‘n’ match can provide hours of entertainment. 

16. Alphabet Puzzles

We love puzzles for kids, and this downloadable alphabet puzzle is just perfect for helping your little one learn their ABC’s.

17. Science Experiment

Science experiments for toddlers can be so much fun! Put white daisies in jars of coloured water & they’ll love watching the flowers change colour over the days. 

18. Reading Corner

Cubbies & nooks are fantastic for imaginative play as well as quiet corners. How beautiful is this reading corner? You could even add an extra special personalised touch with one of our personalised cushion covers! 

19. Grow A Plant

It’s amazing to watch things grow, and garden activities for kids offer a great learning experience. Using wet cotton balls, plant a bean seed in a jar & let your kids watch it grow over the coming days & weeks.

20. Marbleized Paper

This is one of the prettiest crafts for toddlers that we’ve seen! Finished artworks can be put on display, or used to make greeting cards or wrapping paper.

Need more craft activities to do with your little one? Make sure you check out our list of 100+ Crafts For Kids! 

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25 Pretend Play Ideas

Do you have kids that love to pretend play? Pretend playing is good for their imagination, and develops vital social, language, thinking and emotional skills.

Here are some great pretend play ideas for you to try.

1. Cardboard Cubby

Why not turn some old cardboard boxes into a cubby house, decked with windows & a postbox like this one!

2. Story Stones

If your child loves making stories up, why not paint some pictures on stones & see what great stories they can come up with!

3. Tape Town

So easy to recreate with removable tape, create a town complete with buildings and roads where your child can drive their cars around on. 

4. Superhero Town

Create a town complete with buildings for your superheros & villains to live and fight their battles.

5. Fairy Wings

Little girls love to pretend they are fairies! Make a set of wings out of cardboard & let her paint, glue, stick or colour in her wings.

6. Pet Hotel

Using a crate or box, fill them with mailing tubes to make a pet hotel where your child’s stuffed toys can live. Your child can be the hotel manager!

7. Shops

For the little one that loves to play shops, create any type of shop with cube shelves and props.

8. Kitchen

It’s amazing what you can transform out of a cardboard box like this kitchen stove! You can even build a whole kitchen complete with fridge, microwave, sink & shelves from cardboard boxes!

9. Ahoy!

Argh me hearties! It’d be time for some pirating fun!

10. School

Using an old shoe box, this school for lego figurines looks easy to whip up.

11. Construction

This construction scene looks like it will offer loads of fun for the budding builders!

12. Post Office

If you have a child that loves writing letters and sorting, a family post office station might be the perfect play station.

13. Fishing

Pretend playing isn’t only fun, it can teach little ones motor and letter recognition skills. Create an alphabet fishing game with a laundry basket, paper clip fishes & fishing rod with magnet.

14. Miniature Worlds

Miniature worlds are so much fun! There are so many scenes you can create, like this dinosaur one. Hours of fun for little ones.

15. ATM

Kids love to re-enact adult life, even simple things like going to the ATM.

16. Cash Register

Make this cash register for your imaginary shop and let your kids learn all about numbers and quantities.

17. Cooking

If you have a budding chef, let them (pretend to) cook dinner for their little friends.

18. Bed

Make this easy cardboard bed so that your child can put their doll or stuff toys to sleep. Great to nurture big brother or sister skills before the new arrival!

19. Turtle

Do you have a child that loves Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? This easy dress up might be what they need to fight their future battles.

20. TV

Is it every child’s dream to star in their own TV show or was it just mine?

21. Pony Land

Scenes can be so easily recreated with paint and old cardboard boxes like this My Little Pony rainbow scene.

22. Doctors & Patients

Using an old cereal box, turn it into a doctors kit. Your child will love pretending to be a doctor.

23. Mermaid Tails

What a cute idea to turn some figurines into mermaids with playdoh mermaid tails decorated with stones & gems.

24. Jetpack

Using old drink bottles to make a jetpack, your little one will fly from one adventure to the next.

25. Super Hero Cuffs

Have hours of fun with these super hero cuffs made from toilet rolls.

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