Free games for 2 year olds

Every time they say a word clap, cheer, and repeat the word back. Helps with copying, expressive language, eye contact, and play.

DIY Book: Make a do-it-yourself book by gluing different textures onto some pages. Add feathers, buttons, or sandpaper, to name a few, so your toddler can feel the different between rough and smooth, and hard and soft. Helps baby develop sense of touch and play skills. Start with a small area and then let them spread it along the window, having them draw squiggles in the cream with their fingers.

Helps baby explore their sense of touch. Noodle Fun: Get pasta with large holes in it and let your toddler string thread through the pasta to make a noodle necklace.

Your toddler can also paint the pasta to make it more colorful and fun. Helps baby develop fine motor skills. Games to Play Shape Sorting: Make circles, squares, and triangles and set two of each down on the floor. Have your toddler match up the shapes. You can also put down pictures of animals and have your child match a toy version of the animal to the picture. Helps baby builds cognitive and visual skills. Tube Ball: Tape cardboard tubes from a paper towel roll to the wall so they connect at different angles.

Give your toddler a ball and let them drop the ball down the tube, waiting for it to come out the bottom. Helps baby develop visual-motor and fine motor skills. Games to Play Button Drop: Cut holes into a lid on a box and have your toddler slide old buttons through the holes while you supervise them. Making different sized holes can create different challenges for your toddler. Laundry Sort: When you are folding laundry, let your toddler help you. As you fold, ask your child to bring you different articles of clothing.

Say "please bring me a sock? Games to Play Kitchen Helper: Let your child help you out in the kitchen. Give them spoons or spatulas to hold and let them help you mix and stir ingredients. They might make a little bit of a mess so you may have to guide their hands a bit. Costume Change: Start a costume bin. Fill it with clothes from past decades, old Halloween costumes, and goofy finds from thrift stores. When your little one is looking for something fun to do, pull out the costume bin and let them step into character!

Helps baby develop play skills and practice dressing and undressing. Games to Play Freeze Dance: Have a dance party with your little one. Tell them once the music stops, they have to freeze in place! When it starts, they can dance again. Helps with following instructions and gross motor skills.

Grab a group of items and ask your child to identify which one is "unique". For example, grab all green blocks and one red block. Or items made of metal and one made of paper. Helps with learning new words and sensory skills. Make Your Own Puzzle: Print out a picture of an item your child would like. Cut it into large pieces for a standard 8. Ask your child to try and put the picture together! Helps with sensory and life skills. Games to Play Shadow Show: Turn the lights off and grab a flashlight or two!

Show your child how they can cast a shadow using their hands or body in front of the flashlight. Challenge them to tell a story using shadows!

Helps with fine motor skills, communication skills, and working memory. Sand Search: Hide a toy in a bucket of sand or sandbox. Have your child search for it. For an extra challenge, have them search with their eyes closed-- they can only find it by feeling! Helps with sensory skills.

Egg Race: If using real eggs, do this outside! Put an egg real or plastic on a spoon, and have your child walk a specified distance. Try to have them go as fast as they can without breaking the egg! Helps with motor skills, balance, and hand-eye coordination. As you dance, give your toddler instructions related to their body parts, such as "shake your arm" or "touch your head".

Helps with motor skills, body awareness, and following instructions. Toy Hunt: Hide your little one's favorite toys around the house and have them search for them! You can give them clues of where their toys might be at.

Liz from Love and Marriage has a fun twist on an old classic the Memory Game. Have him take a mental picture, and then have him leave the room while you remove one of the objects. See if he can guess which one is missing.

Got a noisy toy in the house? Instead of silently cursing the musical object every time it goes off, make a game of it! Have the little one leave the room, turn it on and hide it. The 2-year-old will love going on a hunt. Every toddler will love making their way through a mini age-appropriate obstacle course. Hula hoops, cones, makeshift tunnels — the configurations are endless. And so are the gross motor skill benefits. No matter how you play, children will get a better grasp of numbers while working on their jumping at the same time.

Whether you have a real goal or a makeshift one, few 2-year-olds can resist trying to kick a ball toward a designated spot. Jenae from I Can Teach My Child had the great idea of filling up a small container with water, along with lids of varying sizes and colors. Food pouch lids work perfectly. Have little ones scoop out the red ones and place them in a red cup, and so forth. Ideal for a hot summer day. All you need are some bean bags and a bucket for this one. See if the little one is able to toss the bags into a bin or bucket.

Baby Colors - Master colors the fun way! Baby Text Message - Grasp letters and pretend to text their family. Seasons - Weather is fun! Learn about the seasons. Baby Paint Doodle - Help your future kindergartner become an artist.

Baby Phone - Fake phone for your baby to learn numbers and have fun. Fun Shapes - Cutesy way to learn baby shapes. Baby Piano - Learn music and melody. Trains - Explore the sounds of trains! Transportation - Learn about how the world moves. Feed the Penguin - This hungry fella likes to dance and eat. Pop the Bubble - Simple fun for everyone ABC's - Memorize the alphabet and sing the song. Interaction - Touch anything in the app and it will react to you!

Keep your child busy and help them learn valuable kindergarten skills. This game does feature ads, please for parents only. There's an optional in-app purchase to remove the ads. Please make sure to keep watch on your data if you're on a limited plan. Update: it turns out that I had used the switch to lock the screen, and when I reset the iPad, it turned the sound off. I hadn't used this iPad in a while, so I completely forgot about it.

My newer iPad doesn't have that switch. So now, the sound works fine.