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What keeps my toddlers busy (ages 1–4)
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items Here are my best recommendations for simple toddler & preschool activities to keep little hands busy and curious minds engaged. Inside this list, you’ll find a mix of creative play, learning-based activities, and quiet-time ideas that support fin...
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Coloring & Activity Books
Board & Early reader books
Crafts & Activities
Coloring & Activity Books
Coloring & Activity Books for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Awesome big picture coloring book for toddlers and preschoolers. Traceable words on each page.
My Spring A-Z Coloring Book: Alphabet for Toddlers
Such an entertaining preschool workbook! The pages are so fun of great content, its the perfect size for on the go, and the illustrations are beautiful!
Preschool Activity Book Ocean Animals: 75 Games
My kids LOVE these! They color & draw just like on paper. Easy button to erase when they are done. Great quality and a lot of fun for working on things like number and letters. Great for the Car, on the go, or at home.
TEKFUN 10-inch LCD Writing Tablet for Kids
These are my absolute favorite activity! The stickers are reusable, so much play and imagination. Both my 3 yr. old and my 1yr. old play with this! They are easy to take places, easy to carry. The stickers are easy for little hands to use and they ar...
6 Sets Reusable Jelly Sticker Books for Toddlers 1-4
This oversized coloring pad has been a fan favorite with my daughter! We use markers, crayons, colored pencils, and paint on these! I love the oversized pages, the images are precious. it has been hours of fun in our house.
Melissa & Doug Girls Activity Bundle
These are so awesome for working on motor skills! Buttons, clips, snaps, ties, twists, and ABC's. The perfect activity to take in the car, anything the kiddos need something to do (without using a screen) and nothing falls off! I highly recommend!
Exorany Montessori Busy Board Toddler Toy
Board & Early reader books
My 1 & 3 year olds are reading this book on repeat! Such fun with counting, sounds, texture. I highly recommend this book for a variety of ages. My 1 yr old laughs, and laughs at the popping sound.
Melissa & Doug Poke-a-Dot Old MacDonald Farm
I LOVE this book! Not a lot of words and really leaves room for conversation with your little one about how going on the potty looks in your home. I always added my own ideas that were special to our family. Plus the illustrations are oh so cute. Hig...
Potty: Toilet Training Story for Toddlers
Such an adorable little book! Pages have the pull tabs to discover stuff underneath. My 3yr old is reading this on repeat!
Very First Q&A: What is the Moon? (Ages 3-5)
Our 1yr old & 3yr old LOVE this book! Its like pop, learn & play! Beautiful board book dots to poke, noise to make, and animals to count! 10/10 in our house!
Melissa & Doug Poke-a-Dot! Who’s in Ocean?
Ahhh Eric Carle, need I say more about the gorg illustrations?! Plus the animal sounds. So many animals in each book! This is a fan favorite for my 1 & 3 year olds!
World of Eric Carle Around the Farm Sound Book
I LOVE this book! It is interactive with sound and pictures but totally screenless! It has multiples languages as well. It's almost like having a book at reads to you. It really helped my daughter when she was learning to talk. We would look at the p...
LeapFrog Learning Friends 100 Words Book, Green
The Hello World book series is one I recommend to just about everyone. The illustrations, the simple meaningful text, in educational in such a fun way!! I love how large the text is for young readers. These are very sturdy beautiful books.
Hello, World! Construction Site
The Hello World book series is one I recommend to just about everyone. The illustrations, the simple meaningful text, in educational in such a fun way!! I love how large the text is for young readers. These are very sturdy beautiful books.
Hello, World! Cars and Trucks
The Hello World book series is one I recommend to just about everyone. The illustrations, the simple meaningful text, in educational in such a fun way!! I love how large the text is for young readers. These are very sturdy beautiful books.
Hello, World! Snow
These books are so stinking cute. The are touch and feel board books with simple stories and stuffed animals. LOVE.
If I Were A Puppy Board Book
Crafts & Activities
I seriously love Melissa and Doug toys. I love the quality, how pretty they are and how thoughtfully they are made. My kids love this ice cream set. Oh the hours of play.
Product: Scoop & Stack Ice Cream Cone Playset
This is the cutest easel! It is so versatile! It has a white board, chalk board, clips for paint projects. Paper holder!! Everything you need.
Deluxe Wooden Standing Art Easel
This is the perfect toy! It’s the best combination of fun, motor skill strengthening, colors, shapes, imagery play! Honestly don’t need anything else in a toy!
Wooden Shape Sorting Grocery Cart
My kids love this toy! The sounds are so realistic! The scenes are interchangeable at the top. The airplane in the middle moves. So many buttons, pushes, and pulls .Many countries represented. It is such an amazing toy and it’s had hours of play in o...
Jet Pilot Interactive Dashboard
We can’t live without our kitchen! The endless imagination play that has happened with this. Both my 1 & 3 yr. old love creating in this kitchen! We learn foods, colors, shapes, “hot”, “cold”… I could go on. It seems so simple and has such a big ...
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