Toddler Growth and Development

This article discusses some of the hallmarks of a toddler's development.

Issue this challenge to your child: How long can you balance on your heels?

This movement activity will spur your child's imagination as well as exercise his body.

Find information on the developmental changes that occur between three and six years of age.

Your toddler will love to move her feet when motivated by the sound of a jingle bell sewn onto her socks.

This activity will teach your child how to control his limbs in an enclosed space.

This checklist can help you explore your child's unique sensory portrait and identify sensitivities, triggers, and patterns underlying any worrisome behaviors.

This game teaches young children when and how to move their body in order to toss objects into a large laundry basket.

This activity provides the kind of visual cues that get most children moving at top speed.

It's backwards day! Have fun with your child doing everything in your day backwards.

The fun activity helps young children learn about colors by using food coloring.

Growing muscles make young children feel powerful. This is the perfect age for racing you across the yard.

Use this activity to help teach your toddler the concept of abbreviating in a playful way.

Work with your child to transfer water from bottle to bottle in this fun activity.

Direct your child to walk in different ways, and you'll help him master both his mind and his body.

See whose balloon gets popped first, as you and your child race to pop each other's balloons.

This activity challenges your child's fine-motor skills by asking him to slide poker chips through a slot into a can.

Twirl around with your child in the center of the universe, in this fun activity.