My first post on 15 Independent Activities for One-Year-Olds has been the most popular post on Imperfect Homemaker. I figure there must be lots of other moms who are in the same boat that I am and need something that will occupy their little ones for a while! I decided to round up some more ideas for all of us that are age-appropriate for one-year-olds and can be done independently by the child.
Note: If you click a picture or the link under the pictures, you will be taken to the blog where these ideas originated from. If you’d like to pin a specific picture, please pin from the blog where the idea was originally posted.
Here goes!
9. Pom poms and cardboard tubes (if this activity is going to be unsupervised, I think it would be best to replicate this idea with larger sized balls that won’t fit into the child’s mouth.)
10. Connect Four (without the rules of course!)
15. Toys! There are lots of toys that you can buy that are educational, and you don’t have to take the time to make anything. Here’s my list of 10 toys for one-year olds.
What activities do you use for your little ones when you need them to play by themselves?
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AAA! Thank you so much for this list! I have a busy one-year-old that seems bored with his current toys. I don’t want to go out and buy a bunch of stuff, when I know we have things at home he would love to play with. Just needed some new ideas. Great list!
Great! Here’s hoping our little ones like these ideas as much as we do!
Thanks for including our activity and photo on your round-up. I wish you were also giving proper photo/pinterest credit.
Heather, I think this is such a great idea for little ones! I can’t disable my “pin it” button on a specific photo, which is why I purposely linked not only the text but also the large photo directly to each blogger’s post. I didn’t pull this from pinterest – just from good old Google, so I didn’t know where to even find a pinterest link. I definitely encourage readers to pin from the original site, but if you’d rather we not use your photo I understand. Or if you have any other suggestions or would like to watermark your photo that would be great as well! I’m totally not trying to cause problems!
Well said. That wasn’t the nicest thing to post from one blogger to another publicly on their page. No class.
Awesome!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, I just found your blog via Pinterest.
Glad it’s helpful to you! Hope you’ll come by again!
My daughter LOVES playing with magnets
I put different amounts of rice or noodles in small containers and then i turn on some kids music and we drance and shake the containers. My son loves doing that alot not only does it keep him happy for a while its a great work out for me as well