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Fun Family Game Ideas for Two Year Olds

It's known as the "Terrible Twos." It's the age when little ones begin to develop their own personalities and can become quite willful and somewhat strident in their demands. Entertaining two-year-olds can be challenge, but they are curious by nature and stimulation helps them to learn. Creating games is a wonderful way to stimulate and entertain two-year-olds. Not only will it keep them content, they might learn some things as well.

Music Games
- Kids love music and dancing, so creating a game with music will provide exercise and entertainment and learning. Play a game of hokey pokey with the kids. While music plays, instruct children to touch their head, shoulders, knees, and toes. Then have children point to their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Have children continue gradually moving through each step faster.
Color Scavenger Hunt
- A scavenger hunt allows children to think critically and relate real life objects to colors. Gather several things to hide that relate to each color you want to teach. Use different color ballons as color clues in finding the hidden objects. Pull out a balloon and ask children what color is the balloon or tell the color. Have them repeat the color back to you. Have children search for something in the room matching the color of the balloon.
Bugs
- Use print outs of the alphabet or numbers 1 through 10 to use as bugs. Stick tape on each letter or number and stick on various parts of your body or the body of a doll. Have children remove each letter or number bug off your body. As the children remove each bug, name the letter or number and body part from where it was removed. The game allows childrn to learn their alphabet and/or numbers. The game also introduces early literacy skills.

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