At this stage your child wants to be more independent, but still appreciates the help from you. Your child learns by getting her hands into everything. She will fiddle with knobs, open and shut doors, and flip light switches on and off. Toys with interlocking parts – pop-up toys, nesting toys, sorting toys, trucks with doors that open and shut – create endless opportunities to explore.
At this age, children learn best from unstructured play.
- Toys to play house
- Large and small blocks
- Toy instruments
- Puzzles
- Illustrated Books and CD’s – nursery rhymes; ask your child if he can name things seen in the pictures
- Train sets