{"id":61,"date":"2016-01-28T22:32:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=61"},"modified":"2017-09-22T19:16:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T19:16:54","slug":"games-and-activities-for-toddlers-30-36-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/01\/28\/games-and-activities-for-toddlers-30-36-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Games and Activities for Toddlers (30-36 months)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.&nbsp;He may want to include other children in his games, and he&#8217;ll really begin to relate to and focus on other kids, which allows him to play more structured games.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As your child gets older,&nbsp;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 \u2013 something as simple as a cardboard box can be a wagon, a spaceship, a fort, and so on \u2013 will help encourage this area of development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Jigsaw Puzzles &#8211; look for ones with large, simple, and easy recognizable pictures; works on problem solving and eye\/hand coordination<\/li>\n<li>Beginning board or memory games \u2013 Chutes and Ladders, I Spy, Memory<\/li>\n<li>Kitchen set<\/li>\n<li>Mega Blocks or Lego Duplos<\/li>\n<li>Art Supplies \u2013 crayons, clay, collage materials, watercolors, finger paints<\/li>\n<li>Outdoor equipment \u2013 swings, basketball hoops, bats, golf-sets, soccer balls<\/li>\n<li>Books that are age-appropriate and more sophisticated; your child can follow narratives and more complicated words and stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&nbsp;He may want to include other children in his games, and he&#8217;ll really begin to relate to and focus on other kids, which allows him to play more structured games. As your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/01\/28\/games-and-activities-for-toddlers-30-36-months\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games and Activities for Toddlers (30-36 months)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities","category-parent_resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}