Geography for Kids - How Do People and Things Move?

Kids Activities Ages 2-3

• Toddlers are expert travelers. In their attempt to learn what they can do and what the world is all about, toddlers climb over, under, and into nearly everything. They crawl, run, and walk around everything else. Let them play on wheel toys, wagons, and push and pull toys.
  
  
• Ask them how many different ways they can move. They can go fast or slow. They can crawl, hop, jump, or slither like a snake.
  
  
• Make a tunnel for kids to crawl through. Cut both ends out of a couple of cardboard boxes, turn the boxes over and line them up. Toddlers will enjoy crawling into, through, and out of a tunnel.
  
  
• Give toddlers something to ride. A variety of vehicles with a seat and no pedals--some in the shape of animals--are available for toddlers who push themselves around with their feet. Pull your children in a wagon.
  
  
• Kids with physical disabilities also need to experience movement. All children can have opportunities to travel by car, bus, or the back of a bicycle. If possible, take other forms of transportation such as airplanes, trains, subways, boats, ferries, barges, and horses and carriages. Take a map with you.
  
  
• Toy trains with tracks and other wheeled toys are good ways to play traveling.
  
  
• When you give your child a bath, blow or push toy boats to move them to different places. Use sponges or washcloths as make--believe islands.