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Book Review – Toddler Activities Made Easy: 100+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Busy Parents

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All play, no prep toddler activities

Your little toddler is bursting with enthusiasm, wonder, and…ENERGY! And you’re a busy parent. No matter the time, space, or kind of materials you have on hand, this book gives you plenty of quick, easy, and fun-filled activities to engage your child’s curiosity.

Toddler Activities Made Easy uses everyday household materials to create educational and entertaining experiences for your toddler. With activities that take only 5-minutes or less to get ready, this book makes it simple and fast for parents to turn a moment of idleness into play learning.

Toddler Activities Made Easy includes:

  • 100 + awesome activities?Engage your toddler with active play, early science experimentation, creativity, imaginative games, and outdoor exploration?no matter which toddler activities you choose, they’ll be learning and having fun!
  • Quick, no-fuss setup?Use common materials that you have lying around the house to prep toddler activities in just 5 minutes.
  • Developmental milestones?Choose toddler activities based on skills developed with labels for early literacy, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, and so much more.

Turn a regular box into a school bus. Make musical instruments from office supplies. Experiment with puddle splashing. Whatever the game is, this book makes it fast and easy for you and your toddler to have a BLAST learning.

 

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Christmas Ornament Cross Stitch Patterns

The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.

These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.

This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.

Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.

These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!

From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.