Discover the Best Activities to Foster Language Skills, Problem-Solving, and STEAM Concepts
Has your toddler started sharing their experiences and thoughts with you? Even if they make a few mistakes while speaking or mispronounce a few words, it's absolutely adorable to see them become little story tellers. Encourage them to share more stories and you will see their eyes light up.
What to expect?
At around 28 to 30 months you will notice many changes in your little one. Some of the changes are:
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Can run and jump more confidently
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Improved hand eye coordination
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Can manipulate small objects like door knobs
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Can recall recent events and recognize familiar faces
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Have about 200 to 300 word vocabulary
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Can describe their own experiences, thoughts and feelings
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Strive for more independence and like to perform tasks like eating, dressing and washing hands on their own.
Is it normal?
Concern: My toddler keeps asking the same question over and over again.
Verdict: Yes, it is normal. Your toddler may be asking the same question repeatedly for several reasons such as feeling confident and reassured about something, trying to understand a new concept, developing their language and communication skills, exploring their curiosity or simply seeking your attention.
As a parent, you can help your toddler by being patient and provide clear answers to your toddler. Have interactive conversations with your toddler to understand why they are asking questions repeatedly and provide new information if you can to expand your toddler’s understanding.
Concern: My toddler says “no” to everything.
Verdict: Yes, it is normal. It is completely normal for your toddler to go through a “no” phase, where they say no to everything. Some of the reasons for this behaviour can be to be independent and be in control of the environment, testing their boundaries to see how you react, seek attention, avoid activities they don’t like doing or simply they have a limited vocabulary.
As a parent, try to be calm and understand the reason for saying no. Offer controlled choices such as instead of asking “Do you want to eat?”, ask “Do you want to have an apple or a banana” which allows your toddler to feel independent and in control. And using positive language such as instead of saying “Don’t shout” say “Let’s use our indoor voice” can help with this behaviour.
How can you support your toddler’s development?
Your toddler is at a stage where they have begun to grasp the workings of the real world. They are more interested in real life activities and usually try to mimic it themselves. But is there a way to ensure that they are actually learning about the real world and developing life skills?
Yes, there is, with Tinyvers activity kits. Tinyvers activity kit 12 designed specially for 28 to 30 month toddlers with developmental tools that foster language skills, problem-solving abilities, and introduce early STEAM concepts seamlessly into their daily activities, you can ensure their timely growth and development. It also helps your child to bridge the gap from home based learning to preschool, supporting crucial developmental growth.Tinyvers has worked with a team of pediatricians, educators and many more experts from various fields to design activity kits that cater to your child’s developmental needs. The kit also comes with a milestone brochure, activity booklet and DIY activity cards that help you navigate your toddler’s developmental journey with ease.
Let’s take a tiny peek into the developmental toys included in Tinyvers activity kit 12:
Life cycle is a fundamental concept of biology. The life cycle puzzle helps your toddler to grasp the concept at an early age. It helps your toddler understand integration mapping and develop sequential thinking, fine motor skills and hand eye coordination. It also helps your toddler develop an interest in understanding scientific concepts.
2. Doctor set:
Your toddler loves mimicking the adults around them and your family doctor is one of them as well. The doctor set is an excellent toy to elevate their pretend play. As they pretend to be little doctors, their creative thinking, problem solving and communication skills improve. Moreover, it also enhances their social development and teaches them empathy and kindness.
3. Kitchen set:
Does your toddler love tagging along while you are in the kitchen? Then the kitchen set is going to be their favourite. It helps you to introduce your toddler to cooking, fosters curiosity and improves their vocabulary skill. It also allows them to explore concepts of mathematics and science.
4. Sort and stack:
As your toddler is getting familiar with shapes and colour, sort and stacks presents a great opportunity for them to practice it over and over again. Repeated practice is extremely important for your toddler’s memory skill development. Sorting the different shapes and stacking them on top of each other on the dowels will not only enhance your toddler’s shape recognition but also hand eye coordination, logical thinking and problem solving skills.
5. Stack and balance:
Your toddler has played on the seesaw a couple of times, but do they know how it works? Stack and balance is like a mini seesaw that will help them understand exactly that. It introduces your toddler to concepts of physics, weight variation and object balance. It also encourages them to explore and experiment with the weights enhancing their logical thinking skills.
6. Food cards:
Is your toddler a picky eater? Do they demand to eat only one kind of food over and over again? Introducing them to a different variety of foods can help them to try new foods. Food cards allow you to introduce new foods to your toddler. It also helps in sparking curiosity, enhancing language skills and memory skills.
7. Nature cards:
We are surrounded by natural elements all around us. The bright and attractive nature cards allow you to introduce different elements of nature such as flowers and mountains to your toddler. The cards also enhance your toddler’s vocabulary and language skills and promote STEAM education.
8. Making lemonade book:
Making lemonade is a simple process. But do you know this simple process can even teach mathematical concepts to your toddler? Making lemonade is a book that introduces your toddler to the process of making lemonade. It teaches them counting and improves their hand-eye coordination, motor skills and vocabulary.
As your toddler becomes more active, interactive, confident and expressive, it becomes difficult to keep them contained. They have more opinions and more feelings that they want to express. Providing them with options to exercise their independence boosts their development. Toys such as Life cycle puzzle, Doctor set, Kitchen set, Sort and stack and Stack and balance are extremely beneficial for your toddler’s development at this stage. Moreover, activities such as going through Food cards, Nature cards and books like Making lemonade enhances your toddler’s understanding about various life skills. Sometimes things might get a little overwhelming, but it’s okay. As long as you love, support and encourage your toddler with all your heart, things are going to me alright.