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Last Updated: September 14, 2009

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Parenting Tips for Your 25-26 Month Old Toddler

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Materials

  • Sheet of cardboard
  • Five sheets of different colored paper
  • Pencil
  • Drinking glass
  • Scissors
  • Child safe glue, check the bottle to be sure it says nontoxic or child safe


How to Make the Game

  • Make your circles by drawing around a water glass on the colored paper. Make two circles of each color of paper.
  • You will have 5 pairs of circles, each pair a different color.
  • Cut out all of the circles; stack them in two separate piles.
  • Glue one set of circles to the cardboard.


How to Play

  • Place the cardboard in front of your child on the floor, or at a table.
  • One by one, give him different colored circles. Encourage him to put each one on the same colored circle glued to the cardboard.
  • Say the name of the color as your child puts each circle on the correct color.
  • When all the circles have been matched, have your child pick up the circles one by one and hand them back to you. Ask him the color of each circle as your child hands it back to you.


Learn more about Your Toddler: 25-26 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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