If effort was person parents/guardians could be the best persona to display. We all work to see our children live and gain knowledge in multiple areas. We walk every journey providing, teaching, repeating and enhancing their skills.  Without minding our ages, career and family lines parents we indulge with all childish games to see the little angles become their best. Physical and Literacy games for toddlers are part of everyday activities to ensure a holistic development.

 Most parents and guardians are keenly aware of the importance of literacy in their kids' lives.  Try to find practical ways to promote learning among their kids.   Literacy is the foundation for doing well at school, developing self-independence, and socializing with others. Literacy games for toddlers offer an exciting opportunity to merge entertainment and knowledge. Children are energetic and love interacting with new objects, spaces, and activities. For proper growth and development we must introduce them to different activities, games, and experiences.

What are literacy games?

Literacy games are a fantastic way to stimulate toddler’s imaginations and motivate children to read. 

Practical literacy activities for toddlers

Numerous fun-filled and exciting literacy games for toddlers can help them develop a fascination for reading books. Here are some of the practical literacy activities for toddlers.

• Drawing and painting

As a parent, it is vital if you provide your toddler with drawing and painting items like;

• Drawing book
• Watercolors
• Sharpies
• Pebbles
• Fly-swatter

How to draw and paint

• Create a list of some drawings in a drawing book.
• Pebbles should be placed on the drawing book to keep it in place
• Some of the phonics shall be called out
• Call them out loud and then paste them with the paints from the drawings

• The Riddle Treasure Hunt

Introducing your toddlers to the happiness of solving a riddle and getting a prize is vital. The riddle Treasure Hunt aims to enhance toddlers' reading, interpretation, and comprehension skills. Reading and understanding the riddles will help them with problem-solving methods.

• Hide and seek

One of the practical literacy activities for toddlers is playing with their hide and seek. Let the kids go hiding and go and look for them. Make it fun for all toddlers to participate and reward them at the end of each round to keep them motivated.

• Reading pictures

You need more than just reading words for your toddler. Understanding their meaning and expressing what is not written goes a long way in a toddler's language development. What you need for your child;

• An album with family members' photos
• A book filled with pictures

• Storytelling

As a parent, find a storybook and read it together with your toddler. The advantage of reading can be got only when it is read out.

• Rhyming games

Playing rhyming games with your child will teach you about the patterns in words. Introduce a poem or rhyming story and help the kid think of other words with this pattern.

• Mini basketball

Allowing toddlers to get involved in sports early helps them boost confidence, strengthen hand-eye coordination, and keep them active. You can start them by making fake balls with rolled socks.

• Alphabet treasure hunt

Hide the objects around the playing area. Set a time limit for the treasure hunt and allow the kids to search for objects that start with each alphabet letter. Let them find and present the object before moving on to the following letter. Praise the toddler who wins and finds all the objects quickly. What you need;

• Stopwatch
• A collection of small objects with alphabet letters

• Building blocks

Parents and guardians should encourage their kids to make different types of structures, animal magnets, and sheets. This helps the toddler to improve their creative thinking and visual application.

Importance of literacy games for toddlers

Focusing on literacy games for toddlers is essential since it has advantages over time. Here are some of the importance of literacy games for toddlers. They include;

• Improves writing

As a parent, when you help your kid with literacy games, it helps them in writing. By reading better, your toddler can form and write sentences quickly.

• Improves grammar

The literacy games assist the child in improving grammar and writing. The rules of grammar can be absorbed easily by exposing the toddler to grammatically correct sentences as early as possible.

• Enhancing imagination

Literacy games help toddlers enhance their imagination by reading stories and other articles that can blow their creativity and get their imaginations flowing.

• Better vocabulary

Toddlers develop better vocabulary early by using literacy games. Let the child read as many times as possible to get a better vocabulary.

Conclusion

With all efforts combine it’s easy to produce bright all-round kids. However, each child is unique and develops at their own given time. Parents shouldn’t compare or push their children to limits to attain particular milestone. Everything will fall into place just keep doing your level best.