1. Watering Can: Water is an almost perfect warm-weather toy. It’s relaxing, ever-changing, clean, and inexpensive. One way to empty a wading pool is to let your child scoop the water out with a watering can and water the garden. (Be sure to stay close by when your child plays near a wading pool.) Even sprinkling designs on the sidewalk can be good fun. You can easily make a toy watering can by poking holes in a plastic bottle.
2. Grasshopper Hops: Rolling, jumping, swaying, moving! That’s how babies and toddlers learn. In fact, for very young children, movement is essential to creating an understanding of both self and world. When something active catches your child’s eye, encourage her to imitate what she sees. Then describe her actions as she…
