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Last Updated: September 14, 2009

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Parenting Tips for Your 47-48 Month Old Child

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For Active Play and Physical Development:

  • Assorted blocks
  • Push and pull toys
  • Balls and beanbags
  • Dump trucks
  • Hollow blocks
  • Workbench and tools
  • Balls
  • Junior indoor gym sets
  • Wheelbarrow
  • Tricycles
  • Big boxes or crates

For Pretend Play and Developing Imagination:

  • Doll corner materials
  • Materials to play house like dishes, toy appliances
  • Toy animals and farmyards
  • Costumes
  • Telephones
  • Puppets and stage

For Artistic Play and Developing Creativity:

  • Clay
  • Painting materials
  • Blunt scissors
  • Crayons
  • Colored cubes
  • Simple puzzles
  • Easel, paints and brushes
  • Paper, newspaper, wrapping paper
  • Musical instruments


Learn more about Your Child: 47-48 Months from Just In Time Parenting. You can also go to our Resource Links for additional information on child care and development.


Note to Parents: When reading this newsletter, remember: Every baby is different. Children may do things earlier or later than described here. This newsletter gives equal space and time to both sexes. If he or she is used, we are talking about all babies.
References: These materials were adapted by authors from Extension Just in Time Parenting Newsletters in California, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Wisconsin.

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