Activities for Responsive Caregiving: Infants, Toddlers, and Twos
101 play-based activities to begin a lifetime of learning

Very young children are rapidly changing and eagerly discovering their worlds. As a responsive caregiver, you support children’s development and create a nurturing environment filled with opportunities for them to joyfully explore, learn, and grow. This resource provides more than a hundred play-based activities to help infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds develop the skills they need to become active, happy lifelong learners. Each activity is easy to implement, engages children in playful experiences, and emphasizes primary and secondary learning outcomes in social-emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. Use this book to strengthen your understanding about how children grow and create countless moments of nurturing through developmentally appropriate learning experiences.

Jean Barbre, EdD has thirty years of experience working with children and families as a licensed marriage and family therapist, preschool director, teacher, college instructor, national and international speaker, and a guest presenter on public television. Dr. Barbre holds a master’s degree in child and family studies from California State University, Long Beach, a master’s degree in counseling from California State University, Fullerton, and a doctorate degree in educational leadership from Pepperdine University.


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Activities for Responsive Caregiving: Infants, Toddlers, and Twos
101 play-based activities to begin a lifetime of learning

Very young children are rapidly changing and eagerly discovering their worlds. As a responsive caregiver, you support children’s development and create a nurturing environment filled with opportunities for them to joyfully explore, learn, and grow. This resource provides more than a hundred play-based activities to help infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds develop the skills they need to become active, happy lifelong learners. Each activity is easy to implement, engages children in playful experiences, and emphasizes primary and secondary learning outcomes in social-emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. Use this book to strengthen your understanding about how children grow and create countless moments of nurturing through developmentally appropriate learning experiences.

Jean Barbre, EdD has thirty years of experience working with children and families as a licensed marriage and family therapist, preschool director, teacher, college instructor, national and international speaker, and a guest presenter on public television. Dr. Barbre holds a master’s degree in child and family studies from California State University, Long Beach, a master’s degree in counseling from California State University, Fullerton, and a doctorate degree in educational leadership from Pepperdine University.


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Activities for Responsive Caregiving: Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

Activities for Responsive Caregiving: Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

by Jean Barbre
Activities for Responsive Caregiving: Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

Activities for Responsive Caregiving: Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

by Jean Barbre

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101 play-based activities to begin a lifetime of learning

Very young children are rapidly changing and eagerly discovering their worlds. As a responsive caregiver, you support children’s development and create a nurturing environment filled with opportunities for them to joyfully explore, learn, and grow. This resource provides more than a hundred play-based activities to help infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds develop the skills they need to become active, happy lifelong learners. Each activity is easy to implement, engages children in playful experiences, and emphasizes primary and secondary learning outcomes in social-emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. Use this book to strengthen your understanding about how children grow and create countless moments of nurturing through developmentally appropriate learning experiences.

Jean Barbre, EdD has thirty years of experience working with children and families as a licensed marriage and family therapist, preschool director, teacher, college instructor, national and international speaker, and a guest presenter on public television. Dr. Barbre holds a master’s degree in child and family studies from California State University, Long Beach, a master’s degree in counseling from California State University, Fullerton, and a doctorate degree in educational leadership from Pepperdine University.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781605540849
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Publication date: 12/11/2012
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jean Barbre, EdD, has thirty years of experience working with children and families as a licensed marriage and family therapist, preschool director, teacher, college instructor, national and international speaker, and a guest presenter on public television. Dr. Barbre holds a master’s degree in child and family studies from California State University, Long Beach, a master’s degree in counseling from California State University, Fullerton, and a doctorate degree in educational leadership from Pepperdine University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Responsive Caregivers 1

Components of High-Quality Early Care and Education 1

Setting the Stage For Activities 3

Safety 3

Selecting Materials 4

Designing the Environment 6

Learning Domains 7

How to Use This Book 9

Final Thoughts 11

Infant Activities

1 All About Baby 12

2 Another Reason to Smile 14

3 Babies Are Sleeping-Shhh! 16

4 Baby Animal Sounds 18

5 Back to Me, Back to You 20

6 Bubble Babies 22

7 Buddy Up! 24

8 Come to Me 26

9 Do You Hear What I Hear? 28

10 Expressing Emotions 30

11 Here I Come 32

12 How Many? 34

13 Musical Babies 36

14 My Kind of Play 38

15 Peekaboo 40

16 Rhyme with Me 42

17 Touch-It Tubs 44

18 Water Babies 46

19 What Do You See? 48

20 What's in the Shoe Box? 50

21 Where Did It Go? 52

22 Who Is This? 54

23 You Can Do It Too 56

Infant and Toddler Activities

24 Ace in the Hole 58

25 All About Apples 60

26 All the Bells and Whistles 62

27 Beautiful Butterflies 64

28 Big Ball, Little Ball 66

29 Color We Will Go 68

30 Do You Need a Hug? 70

31 Eye Spy 72

32 Feeling Free 74

33 Flower Power 76

34 Friends on the Farm 78

35 Garden Footprints 80

36 Hats Off to You 82

37 Hello and Good-bye Kisses 84

38 Let's Play Together 86

39 Move It, Shake It 88

40 Movin' and Groovin' with My Friends 90

41 My Family 92

42 My Five Little Senses 94

43 My Little Cubby 96

44 Mystery Box 98

45 The Name Game 100

46 One, Two, Three-Hey, That's Me! 102

47 Our Special Time 104

48 Pat-a-Cake 106

49 Picture Perfect 108

50 Playing with Puppets 110

51 Push and Pull 112

52 Ready, Set, Read 114

53 Rock and Roll 116

54 Round About 118

55 Scarf Dance 120

56 Sensing Something Different 122

57 Shell It Out 124

58 Sitting Pretty 126

59 Stack and Tumble 128

60 Straight Out of the Box 130

61 Tapping to the Tune 132

62 This Little Light of Mine 134

63 Twist and Twirl 136

64 We Go Together 138

65 Whatever Floats Your Boat 140

Toddler Activities

66 Alphabet Soup 142

67 Be a Friend 144

68 Bubblicious 146

69 Bugs and Insects 148

70 Dump and Fill 150

71 Egg-a-Cracken 152

72 Fishing with My Friends 154

73 Fun with Fingerpainting 156

74 Get the Wiggles Out 158

75 I'm Glad I'm Me 160

76 I'm Puzzled! 162

77 Jars of Music 164

78 Little Helpers 166

79 Making Space for Stripes 168

80 March to the Drum 170

81 My Pets 172

82 Orange Peel 174

83 Over the Moon for You 176

84 Paper Bag Baby 178

85 Pizza, Pizza Pie 180

86 Playing Together 182

87 Pop Art 184

88 Recycled Art 186

89 Sand Blast 188

90 Shoes, Shoes, and More Shoes 190

91 Soapy Bubble? 192

92 Sock Hop 194

93 Sponge Art 196

94 Stampin' Place 198

95 Stop and Go 200

96 String It! 202

97 Sunshine and Rainbows 204

98 Tom-Tom Drum 206

99 Walk Like an Animal 208

100 What Are They Rubbing? 210

101 What's the Weather Today? 212

Appendix A Index of Activities by Learning Domain 214

Appendix B Recommended Children's Books 217

Appendix C Internet Resources 221

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