Your games for three year olds

Pirate Ship Colours  Here´s a very good game to teach colours to very small kids.

You use hula-hoops of different colours and pretend they are a pirate ships.

The teacher ...

Driving Car to Shops  My 2 year old son loves for us to sit on the settee or two dining chairs put together, and we pretend to go to the shops.

1st we open the door then ...

Fun in the Garden  Clear a small patch in your garden. Plant your toddlers favourite vegetable/s and let him water it everyday.

You can keep planting new things according ...

Fun in the Garden  Clear a small patch in your garden. Plant your toddlers favourite vegetable/s and let him water it everyday.

You can keep planting new things according ...

Animal Guessing Game  You describe what the animals eat, say or do and your little one has to guess the animal.

You can make it a little more challenging by saying where ...

Cup Pyramid  This is also great for teaching kids to work together.

Buy plastic solo cups in a LARGE BAG. Children stack the cups as high as they can go. It is ...

Ooblick  Working at a summer camp for 3-6 year olds, we come up with a lot of silly games and crafts.

One of the favorites is ooblick, a mixture of about equal ...

Hot Cold Game  Hide an object in the house and have your little one search for it. The closer they get the "hotter" they become; the farther the get to the object the ...

Pretend to be an animal  I have a 2.5 yr old son, who loves games involving physical activity.

So we pretend to be some animal (say frog) and then hop around the house saying ...

Safari Time  My daughter (3 yrs) and I like to play safari together. We pretend to be photographers on a safari. We walk through the house with binoculars and every ...

Crumbed Sausages  Played at the beach!

You all get into the water and get as "wet" as possible, then you all run to the sand hills and the driest sand, and roll in it,...

Cushion Play  Pile up all the cushions from the couch to make a small mound on the floor.

Hide some smaller soft toys and get the kids to roll, climb & manouevere ...

What Did I Hide?  I put about 6 toys in front of my kid and tell her to memorize them, then I make her close her eyes and I hide one of them.

Then I ask her to open her ...

Car Driving  My 3yr old son likes to pretend to drive the car,so each time he will pick up the pillow (steering)to walk around in house and I will say 'turn left' 'turn ...

Story Telling Drawing Idea  My 3 year old son generally is too playful to be able to sit quiet to listen to a story. He is generally interested in playing with the scissors and stuff....

Frogs and Alligators   One child is an alligator and stands in the middle of the room.

The other children are frogs and stand on a rug or space you desinate as the lily pad....

Zoo Fun  Me and my daughter Lucy love playing zoo animals, she pretends to be a giraffe with a long neck and I pretend to be an elephant with a long nose, we have ...

Dictating a monster  After you finish to teach your students about parts of the body, ask them to pick up a piece of paper, a pencil, an eraser and colored pencils.

You ...

Making Pies and Pudding  I have lots of river rocks, fake cherries and raspberries, and small items used for home decorations and crafts.

I have put all these items into containers,...

Salt Dough  One day my daughter and I made salt dough in two colours and created really cute pinwheel cookies, spirals with skewers stuck into them (lollipops), and ...

Alphabet or Number Treasure Hunt  Take 2 sets of alphabets or numbers. Hide one set and ask the kid to search and match up with another set laid on the table/floor and annouce it loud.

This ...

Corner  You choose a room and number 4 corners in the house and you close your eyes and count to 20 while the children run and stop in a corner.

You call out ...

Jumping Circles  With chalk, draw big circles on the ground... scattered (jumping distance from one another).

Fill up the circles with either 12345 or ABCDE and JUMP ...

Switch to the Music!  I give paper and crayons to my 4 and 3-year-olds and start drawing whatever comes to the spirit following the rhythm of the radio station I switch to.

Then,...

Kids Clay Cooking Class  My daughter has this Princess cooking set and she loves playing with it.

I bought clay, all different colours. What we do first is look at pictures ...

Snake Snake  Pick up some rope, ours is a shiny light weight one, and pretend it's a snake.

We run after each other and even attracted the cats as well. Then I teach ...

Garden Activities  I play with my 3 years old daughter in the garden - she can get vitamin D from the sun. We are playing with balls, sand, trampoline and swing and we are ...

"Where's Tigger?"  Take turns counting to 10 while the other hides a stuffed animal (we use a bright orange Tigger). Then say "wheeeere's Tigger?" and whoever did the counting ...