# Activities 18

#### AGEMONTHS

##### HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN AND GROW!

Try these fun and easy activities with your 18-month-old—a great way to have fun together and support your child’s social-emotional development.

### Tons of Love

Your toddler loves to have a lot of hugs and kisses. Give big hugs, little hugs, loud kisses, and soft kisses. Tell them you love them so much! **Materials Needed: None**

### Eating Practice

Your toddler is getting big and wants to do things by themselves! Let them practice eating with a spoon and drinking with a sippy cup during mealtimes. Be ready for some spilling! **Materials Needed: Child-safe eating utensils, sippy cups**

### Back and Forth

Your toddler will enjoy gentle tickling games. Make sure they can let you know when they have had enough. They will like quiet snuggle times, too. **Materials Needed: Tickles and Snuggles**

### A New Playhouse

Make playhouse furniture for your child out of boxes. For a stove, turn a box upside down and draw “burners”. Use simple containers for pots and use wooden spoons or sticks to stir the “soup.” **Materials Needed: Old boxes, containers, pots, child-safe kitchen utensils**

### Mealtime Helper

Let your toddler help during mealtimes by bringing some things to the table or by setting a place at the table. **Materials Needed: None**

### Simple Games

Play simple games such as Hide and Seek and Chase with your toddler. Have fun and laugh together. **Materials Needed: None**

##### Want to learn about developmental milestones for your 18-month-old?

## Visit [https://bpub.fyi/CDC18month](https://bpub.fyi/CDC18month)

Excerpted from ASQ®:SE-2 User’s Guide by Jane Squires, Ph.D., Diane Bricker, Ph.D., & Elizabeth Twombly, M.S. ©2015 Brookes Publishing. All Rights Reserved.