Keeping Little people busy is one of the biggest challenges as parents. Toddlers need a lot of play including sensory and motor skills to stimulate their brain and neural activities. It is always recommended for a toddler to play and run around. It is great for parents to get involved in their play, to literally sit down in floor with them and play or to role play and so on. The more you participate in plays and games with your kids, the more they grow into being a confident, social and happy people.

Car Travel Toddler Entertainment

If your toddler needs a lot of entertainment during the car travel, then below are some suggestions:

• Travel Scribble Magna Doodle
  • Travel Magna Doodle Amazon
  • SmythsToys Colour Doodle
  • SmythsToys Magnetic Sketch Pad

• Magnetic puzzles
• Lego or any other building blocks
• Water painting
  • LittleOnes On the Go Vehicles water pad
  • FuddyDuddy On the Go Dinosaur Water pad 
• Matching game (tinkerlab matching sticker)
• Mini colouring pad
  • BakerRoss Mini Colouring book
  • bakerross Mini Colouring Pencils
• Activity Book and stickers
  • partycity colour sticker books
• Older kids to use reusable stickers on window
• Older kids: truck spotting or car spotting

Sensory and Toddler Activity

We live in a society where we are obsessed with kids even toddlers to learn man made education like ABC or 123 and so on. Little kids do not need to learn these in fact they need to play as much as they can especially sensory and imaginative play. These kinds of activities stimulate their brain and neural activities. During these early toddler days kids have the highest amount of brain activities along with neural connections which if not retained if not stimulated properly. I am going to share some budget friendly games and activities which I came across after so much research. My kid thoroughly enjoyed these activities, so I hope your kids enjoy this too.

1.  Frozen Animal Rescue

• Take a muffin tray or any ice tray and add toys (which can survive the ice or being frozen) that your kid loves to it.
• Fill the tray with water with toys in there. Let it freeze overnight.

Take it out when your kid is read to play. Fill in a bucket or box or bath with warm water (that your kid can handle) then add the frozen animals to it to rescue from the ice trap.

2. Transferring goods

• This is literally the easiest game. Just take two pots from your kitchen and add pasta or puffs to it then give a ladle to the kid.
• Then ask them to transfer pasta from one post to another.

3. Unwrap Clingy Animals

• Wrap some your kid’s toys in cling film
• Give it to them to unwrap

4. Baking/Cooking

Involve them in baking or cooking for real. This is great for sensory. When they whisk or mix the cake or bread mix. Nothing can beat this activity.

5. Bubble Wrap colouring

• We created a bunting using bubble wraps. You can create any art.
• Cut some triangular shape papers. Get a long rope and art glue.
• Ask your kid to apply loads of colours or paints to the bubble wrap with fingers or brushes.
• Wash hands then ask your kid to take the triangular cut papers to the painted bubble wrap so that the sheets get colours.
• After the sheets are dried up then prepare the bunting by gluing the sheets and sticking it to the rope.

6. Aluminium Foil wrapped puzzles

• Wrap some puzzle pieces of your toddler that he does in aluminium foil.
• Let the kid unwrap them and solve the puzzle or jigsaw.

7. Match the colour

• Take a big sheet or floor and draw circles with various colours and pile up some toys of different colours.
• Ask your kid to match colour of each toy and place it within the circle of the matching colour on the sheet.

8. Match the Shape

• Take a big sheet or floor and draw various shapes and pile up some toys of different shapes like plus/cross, circle, triangle, heart, square and so on.
• Ask your kid to match the shape of each toy and place it next to shape drawn on the sheet.

9. Music and Dance

Babies from mum’s tummy love rhythm. So, encourage them to listen to more and more songs and dance to it. They enjoy this so so much, but I am sure your kid already loves music and grooves to the tunes. 

10. Feed the bunny

• Take a cardboard box and make a shape of any animal you want to make with a big mouth and a bigger tummy.
• Cut the mouth part and the belly part using a scissor or a box cutter.
• Take a freezer bag and tape it to the back of animal painting so that it covers both mouth and tummy.
• Cut the part of freezer bag that is close to the mouth.
• Make some food for the animal from cardboard box. I made bunny and carrots.
• Ask the toddler to feed the animal.
• So, the food enters the mouth, and it shows that it goes to tummy.