Product Description

365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your toddler every day of the year.

This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for one-and-a-half to three-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to:

• Prevent boredom during the longest stretches of indoor weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects.

• Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities.

• Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for fun music, food, water, and outdoor activities.

• Keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or cross-town errands.

The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching toddlers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2104 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 508 pages

Customer Reviews

not that useful
Most of the suggestions in this book were not useful to me. Many of them were totally obvious. First, quite a few were different versions of "make a box of toys for a rainy day", or different versions of "gather kitchen tools, tupperware, pots and pans". Second, a lot of the activities take a lot of time to prepare and then keep the kid entertain for just a couple of minutes. Third, some suggestions are just home-made versions of very cheap toys that I just rather buy than spend so much effort and make a mess at home preparing them. In this class you'll find home-made playdoh, bubbles, stacking cups, markers, puzzles, etc. Overall I found this book a waste of money and time. Not a single original idea that I could use.

GREAT, Fun Ideas
I love this book! I just pulled it out again because my 21-month-old daughter and I have gotten into a little bit of a rut. There's been a lot more TV time than I like. Going through here again to pick out some activities, I've noticed so many new things she wouldn't have enjoyed or understood when I bought this book several months ago. Things I dismissed at the time for this reason will now be perfect for her age and current interests. That's the best thing about "The Toddler's Busy Book." There is almost too much to do in there. There are simple ideas and more complex ones with some real planning involved. But since toddlers have a short attention span and are always challenging you to find fun and interesting new things, the vast resources in "The Toddler's Busy Book" will help keep activities fresh and exciting for your toddler (and you)!

Cute everyday ideas for Moms
As a fulltime nanny, this book was a good idea to purchase for new ideas for art, music, and waterplay. A lot of the ideas in the book are simple solutions for full-time mothers, so I have to disregard a big portion of the book. There are tons of different cute ideas though that I just can't use at the moment (For things like bedtime, cooking, etc) but I will hold onto for when I am a mother. I've been playing a lot of little games from this book with the toddler I work with everyday using different variations. Mainly, this book jumpstarted my own creativity, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who has to live with a toddler 24/7.