33+ Fun And Cheap DIY Toddler Activities To Do At Home

With these fun and cheap toddler activities, you will build a stronger relationship with them in the best way.

Playing with your kids gives them all your attention and teaches them many things in a fun way. If you offer them to do something together, they will be happy to respond, as long as they are interested. Kids learn when they do crafts with their hands when they invent and create things. A healthy child is full of energy and enjoys running, jumping, and chasing.

You should be led by this fact while planning your activities at home. Do not expect that your toddler will stay calm while they are coloring pages, printables, or playing with puzzles.

Make sure you offer your toddler interesting, creative, and engaging DIY activities. Do not what you can do?

Do not worry we have a great list of toddler activities you can try without spending your cash on toys or kids’ activity tools.

Scroll down to find out more, and if you need more inspiration for kid’s crafts, DIY, and other projects, visit our dedicated Pinterest board.

Fun and Cheap DIY Toddler Activities

There are so many toddler activities you can do at home, just open up your imagination, recall some of your own childhood games you have played, and have fun.

Cooking with toddlers is so much fun. You can bake cookies, and make little tea sandwiches in different shapes. Bake a cake, and fruit salad.

For the little girls, you can make a nail salon, make different hairstyles, and of course, do makeup.

Creative Toddler Activities

This includes everything that involves crafting, expressing emotions, and imagination. They are great because they can make your kid focus and calm. You can play some relaxing, and calm music while crafting.

One of the best and cheapest ways is to color pages. You can find different free printables with your kid’s favorite characters and enjoy the magic of crayons.

There are other creative toddler activities like:

Painting with fingers, 3D paints, painting with yarn, with ear sticks, etc.
Crafts with brocade glue or galaxy powder is a great activity for girls.
Outline shapes with patterns, and shadow drawings.
Cutting with scissors into shapes, dotted cutting.
Modeling with Play-Doh, homemade play dough, and kinetic sand.
Crafting jewelers with pasta, buttons, gems- ideal for a little princess.
Natural and recycled craft tools like leaves, stones, wooden sticks, plastic bottles, paper rolls, etc.

Active Toddler Games and Ideas

Toddlers are like little bunnies who are jumping, running, and rolling around. It is a good idea to find suitable activities for relieving tension and creating a good mood. These might include:

Throw a balloon, DIY bowling.
Exercise yoga with your kids, or dance. Zumba is super fun for kids.
Jumping on an inflatable ball.
Games such as “Hide and Seak”, and “Treasure Hunt”, are cool physical activities you can practice at home.
Pillow fights and bed jumping are all-time favorite toddler activities.
Throwing or sorting small balls in a bucket, are perfect to teach them to count, or sort items by colors.

Educational Toddler Activities

You can easily combine the game with your toddler so they can learn basic things. It is important to choose educational activities according to kids’ age and individual development.

Do not forget kids are different and learn things at different stages and times. Do not overwhelm them with lots of information.

The best way is to attract their attention and desire to work involving things they like in the shape of a game.

Learning colors, shapes, seasons, days of the week, and clock.

Game with string, sorter, constructor – plastic, wooden, Lego.
Arrange puzzles, puzzle books, wooden puzzles, and picture puzzles.
Solving logical problems – find the differences, what is missing, what is wrong in the picture, and more.
Setting riddles and even more valuable inventing riddles.
Game of associations.
Learning poems, songs, and memory games.
Activities with letters, numbers – writing, spelling, reading.