2 TO 3 1/2 YEARS

  
What Children Are Like

    • Enjoy learning new skills
    • Learn language rapidly
    • Are always on the go
    • Have some sense of danger
    • Gain more control of hands and fingers
    • Frustrated easily
    • Act more independent, but are still dependent, too
    • Act out familiar scene


Types Of Good Toys And Worthwhile Activitie

    • Wood puzzles with 4 to 20 pieces
    • Pegboards, sewing cards, stacking toys, picture lotto, dominoes
    • Picture/story books, poems about familiar things
    • Classical, fold, children's music
    • Finger or tempera paint, 1/2" brushes, blunt scissors, white glue
    • Unit blocks & accessories, wood train set with large pieces
    • Hammer (13 oz steel shanked), soft wood, roofing nails, nailing block
    • Triangle, wood block; texture- & sound-matching games
    • Wagon or wheelbarrow, large rubber ball, riding toy
    • Washable doll with a few clothes, doll bed
    • Dress-up clothes: hats, shoes, shirts; hand puppet
      
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