Water Play for Toddlers
A toddler’s world is full of firsts and they can be doggedly independent about how they choose to experience them. When it comes to soothing water play in the summer heat, the best advice is to keep it simple. Just turn on a little water and stay out of the way.
Try these fund water activities with your toddler:
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Trickling hose tricks. Oh, what a toddler can do with a little bit of water and the great outdoors. If there’s a patch of dirt anywhere in sight, your budding chemist (or maybe chef?) will enjoy mixing up a batch of mud. Give them a few empty plastic containers and watch them get filled up and poured from one to another. It’s a hot day, the water is inviting, and the possibilities in a toddler’s world for water trickling from a hose are endless.
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Sprinkling a little joy. Admit it—every once in a while, do you still sometimes walk through sprinklers on a hot day, just because? Imagine how wonderfully refreshing and exciting a sprinkler feels to a toddler who is exploring many forms of movement—crawling, walking, running—and who loves the sensory stimulation of the cool water. Water your lawn and your toddler at the same time—both will soak it right up.
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