Your child will want to learn to put on his own T-shirt, take off his own pants, and wash and dry his own hands. He may want to include other children in his games, and he’ll really begin to relate to and focus on other kids, which allows him to play more structured games.
As your child gets older, he will become increasingly imaginative. He will start developing his own story lines, characters, plots, and adventures. Giving him clothes and props for pretend play – something as simple as a cardboard box can be a wagon, a spaceship, a fort, and so on – will help encourage this area of development.
- Jigsaw Puzzles – look for ones with large, simple, and easy recognizable pictures; works on problem solving and eye/hand coordination
- Beginning board or memory games – Chutes and Ladders, I Spy, Memory
- Kitchen set
- Mega Blocks or Lego Duplos
- Art Supplies – crayons, clay, collage materials, watercolors, finger paints
- Outdoor equipment – swings, basketball hoops, bats, golf-sets, soccer balls
- Books that are age-appropriate and more sophisticated; your child can follow narratives and more complicated words and stories