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

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.

Kids all seem to go through a phase of loving trivia, and if you’ve got kids who want to know about the tallest, biggest and weirdest things in nature, they’ll enjoy the book Once in a Blue Moon by Emily Hawkins.

The book explores wonders of astronomy, meteorology, big trees, weird animals, volcanoes and more to show off the rarest events and phenomena in the natural world.

Kids ages 7-10 will learn about the lake (Lake Hillier, on an island off Australia) that has water that’s bubblegum pink, the world’s deepst came (Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia) and the world’s biggest tree, a banyan in southeast India with a canopy that covers more than five acres!

Readers will learn what a blue moon is, how supernovas happen and about Haley’s comet and solar eclipses, among other space-related phenomena. Closer to home they’ll learn about stinky flowers, bleeding trees, glowing fungi and pizzly bears.

There’s content about times when it’s rained frogs (and when frogs have exploded en masse), when snow made giant snowballs all by itself and how clouds stack on themselves like pancakes. The book also explores ball lightning, sun dogs, St. Elmo’s fire and more.

I love books like this and I know kids do, too. There’s so much weird and wonderful about our world and even as adults we don’t know about all of these things. I found it fun to learn, for example, that there’s a volcano on the island of Java that not only sends out blue flames from vents near its crater, it’s also home to an acidic lake.

Illustrations by Vlad Stankovic illuminate these weird natural wonders and are sure to get kids interested in learning more about some of these remarkable animals, plants, rock formations and more.

About the book: 80 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $30.

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