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21 activities for one year olds

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Today I present you with my darling angel and 21 of her favorite activities for one year olds.  I am reminiscing about my sweet daughter’s second year of life.  Her year as a one year old.  She is excited to be a big girl and join in with my son’s preschool time, so I always make sure to get an age appropriate activity out for her.  My daughter is very different from my son.  She enjoys these little time-busting activities and gets very intense and excited about them.

Almost all of these activities for one year olds can use items that you already have in your home!  Most of them are completely free and absolutely easy!!

Some activities may include small pieces — as with any activity with your children, please ensure your child is supervised at all times!!

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Have many books available for reading and chewing.21 Activities for One Year Olds - Wildflower Ramblings

Playing with yogurt.21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Playing with yogurt 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Make a treasure bin full of themed or various items for your baby.  We just had ribbons in this one.  (Here are 14 more treasure basket ideas.)

Treasure Bins - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings

Playing with rice.Rice - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Fitting poms in a cut out container.Fitting Poms in Container 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Fitting Poms in Container 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Fitting Poms in Container 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Fitting Poms in Container 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Painting with water.Water painting - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Tearing out the wipes.21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Putting paper pieces, yarn, or poms onto sticky contact paper.
Paper or poms on contact paper - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Paper on contact paper 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Stacking shapes (this is a Lauri shape sorter).21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings

Rings in water (supervision required!)

rings in water - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings

Sticking pom magnets to a tin cup.  (These are homemade.)

magnets on tin can - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings magnets on tin can - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Placing rocks into a cupcake tin.rocks in cupcake tin - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Letter magnets on a cookie sheet.magnets on cookie sheet - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Sticking foam hearts onto the window. (See how at Fun at Home with Kids.)
window art  - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings window art  - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings window art  - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Fitting little washcloths into a wipe container and taking them out again.wipes play - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings wipes play   - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings

Edible paint for baby.

Edible Finger Painting for Baby from Wildflower Ramblings  - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings

Tonging poms into an ice tray.poms in ice tray 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings poms in a tray - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings

poms in ice tray - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings

Stacking shapes (this is a Melissa & Doug shape sorter).sorting shapes - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings sorting shapes - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings

Noodles into a colander.

noodles in colander - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings

Do a Dot markers on paper.do a dots - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings Fitting bottle tops and caps into a cut cereal box.

bottle tops and cardboard box - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings bottle tops and cardboard box - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings bottle tops and cardboard box - 21 Activities for One Year Olds - Baby Play - Wildflower Ramblings
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17 Comments

  1. I LOVE this post. Gives me so many ideas for my 10.5 month old. I’m going to do the water painting tomorrow!

  2. Great post! My one year old loves the noodles + colander idea and spent about an hour doing it today. Fun!

    1. celeste consbruck says:

      use pipe cleaners instead of noodles, easier to clean up

  3. This is the best post for one year old activities that I’ve seen! Incredible job! Thank you!

  4. It’s getting ready to down-pour tomorrow, so I was searching for play ideas. These are so cute! Can’t wait to try them. Thank you!

  5. so colorful and creative…especially water painting…just wonder if baby will be chewing the pom pom….anyway….this was fun, i was looking for ideas too!

  6. So glad I found your printables on pinterest! My 10 month old is quickly approaching one year old energy. I scrolled through this post and some of things she already does. Great, cute ideas to keep babies busy.

  7. Great ideas, I have been struggling to find things to do with my 13 month old. She is also still a big fan of putting things in her mouth…I’m going to try some of these ideas this week!

  8. It is so do-able.. Absolutely loved each and every idea!
    Thanks so much!

  9. Great ideas! Do want to mention this:

    BE SUPER CAUTIONS WITH MAGNETS AND POM POMS

    Swallowed magnet is instant trip to the emergency room. Pom poms are massive choking hazards.

    Specifically when you have younger babies that still eat things.

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