1. Kim and Carrots: Kim delights in some pretend cooking in a toy kitchen while Grandma fixes breakfast. You can make a simple stove for your child by turning a cardboard box upside down and sketching in burners and knobs. You could even cut a door in one side for an oven. Add your smallest pots and pans, a few plastic bowls, wooden spoons, and maybe a pancake turner, and you are ready to play. Toys needn’t be elaborate or expensive to be fun and worthwhile.
2. Pull-Toy Parade: Once your child has mastered push-toys, offer pull-toys. Turning around to check on a pull-toy’s progress while walking and holding a cord requires slightly more toddler coordination and balance. To make your own, tie a curtain ring to a 12” string.…
