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The Toddler's Busy Book: 365 Creative Games and Activities to Keep Your 1 1/2- to 3-Year-Old Busy Paperback – Illustrated, November 1, 1999

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The Toddler’s Busy Book is a must-read for anyone raising or teaching toddlers! This book contains over 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for kids ages 18 months to 3 years, using items found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to prevent boredom during the longest stretches of indoor weather, stimulate a child’s natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities, encourage a child’s physical, mental, and emotional growth, celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities, and keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or while running errands. The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight.

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"A godsend! It's packed with quick-and-easy activities that will keep your toddler creatively stimulated, entertained, and busy for hours." --Penny Warner, author of Baby Play & Learn

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Trish Kuffner lives with her husband and five children just outside Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of The Toddler's Busy Book, The Preschooler's Busy Book, The Children's Busy Book, The Arts & Crafts Busy Book, and The Wiggle & Giggle Busy Book.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Press; Illustrated edition (November 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 408 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671317741
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671317744
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 - 3 years, from customers
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.45 x 1.4 x 7.15 inches

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BlackIsNotAColor

Emotional Drain 101-but I'm converted

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2012

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~~To start off and attempt to be fair, I just received this book. It may indeed have many good ideas for play, creativity, and fun but the first chapter "Help! I have a toddler!" has set the stage for everything I've seen in the book so far. The main thread in the dialog that I've seen from the forward through the first chapter and into flipping through the book is how tiresome, trialing, and a hardship having a child is.~~

***UPDATE*** After reading further, I have to change it from 1 (hate it) to 4 stars (like it). The only texts that are negative are the forward/chapter headers (which is what I commented on above). The author's suggested books in the back, Gentle Discipline ect and easy to use lists of materials also raised my score. Overall, if you can ignore much of the chapter headers, than you are in for a REALLY creative and helpful book. I love the simplicity of these ideas and how easy it is to pull them off, as well as how engaging and spatially educational they are. Oh, and she's not afraid to encourage kids to make a mess because 'that's how they learn'! =) Love that. As well as how encouraging she is of interaction, connection, free play and media free family time. Bravo, I just have to wonder WHY on EARTH she headed each of her chapters with quotes talking about how "you can't return children" and that toddler steps will 'plunge you' into the 'most exasperating time of your adult life'. Are these supposed to be encouragement? LOL
Overall, I'm not disappointed that I bought it. Who knows, maybe I'll buy a copy of the Preschooler's Busy Book for next year too ;)

I would recommend this book to others.

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AWESOME book with GREAT inexpensive ideas! Must Read for all new Mommys!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2017

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Awesome book! Soooo many GREAT and INEXPENSIVE ideas to keep a toddler busy! I use these ideas on a daily basis with my 2.5 year old and am going to add it to my list of must haves for baby shower gifts! One of my favorite ideas in this book is the one for when you have a toddler at home and you bring home a new baby. She suggests that you make a "nursing basket" for your toddler. The basket is filled with quiet things he loves to play independently with and/or special snacks to eat. While you are nursing your newborn, you bring out the basket and let your toddler play with these special toys or eat these special snacks, but only while you're nursing. Any other time the basket is put up so it remains special. What a great way to curb any animosity the toddler may be having toward the new sibling while mommy is devoting special time to nursing. With this GREAT idea in your pocket, it now makes nursing time special for baby and toddler. I loved this idea soo much that I gave a copy of the book to my sister in law, who has a newborn and a toddler, along with a toddler basket full of special things I picked up mostly at the dollar store for my nephew. I presented the basket to her along with a copy of the book, with the toddler basket idea page marked in the book with a sticky note. And lastly it not only gave my nephew something to do, and look forward to doing, while his mom nurses the baby, but it also gave her a little something to read and gather more GREAT ideas from while she's feeding her precious newborn.

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Pinterest doesn't touch this book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 4, 2014

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This is a great book, chock full of simple but engaging activities! I hesitated on getting this book because I thought "I have Pinterest for ideas." I am SO glad I just went for it, and got this book!

There are some ideas that seem almost obvious, in a way, but that's what is so genius about all of them gathered together and written down. An idea that was just part of an intro paragraph (not even one of The Ideas) was rolling stuff down a ramp. I happened to have foam board and set it up against the couch. Brilliant!! Seems obvious and simplistic, but I wouldn't have thought of it myself. And my 2.5 year old LOVED it. (My almost 1.5 year old didn't quite get it.)

There are also many ideas that AREN'T "obvious" but just as easy to pull off. I've loved experimenting and seeing my son really rise to the activity--using concentration and fine motor skills, enjoying challenges that suits him (and I never would have thought he could do!).

I also love how this book has helped me be purposeful about trying new things as well as "letting go!" Letting the kids make a controlled "mess" and knowing they are learning and I am investing in them.

I HIGHLY recommend this book!!! There have been so many new things I've been doing with my 2.5 year old (extremely active) boy. I'll maybe update in a few months when my girl reaches 1.5 years old as several of the activities have been just a little over her head.

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This book is for toddlers, not for you

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 18, 2015

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I bought a big stack of kids' activity books, and I thought this one seemed like a lame mistake. I then spent a lot of money buying supplies for the other books' activities, and after painstakingly setting up elaborate small worlds, sensory bins, different glitter slimes etc, my toddler would either poke at it for a minute or two with mild enthusiasm, or just dump the whole thing out. Finally, I flipped through this book, gave him an empty milk jug with some clothespins, and showed him how to drop them in. He was delighted. He went back to this activity all day. Go figure.

There are actually some pretty cute activities, like hiding different stuffed animals around the house at night, shutting off the lights, and using a flashlight to find them on a "jungle safari."

There are also some activities that are just shameless padding to get to 365, like stacking cans, or letting a balloon float to the ceiling over and over (don't toddlers do those kinds of things naturally?)

Overall, buy the book, shut off your adult brain, and just do the activities. You might be surprised.

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Patricia

Four Stars

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on October 2, 2015

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good ideas but would be good if it was organised into types of play

"きびきち"

おもしろいけど・・！

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on January 15, 2004

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さまざまなシチュエーションでの遊びがたくさん載っているし、ほとんど家庭にあるものを利用できるので参考になります。ただ、悲しいかな、日本とアメリカの生活様式、もしくは文化の違いのせいでしょうか、「こんな遊びはできないよ～」というのもちらほら。（例えばホースで水鉄砲なんて、マンション住まいの我が家には夢のはなしだし、スパゲッティスプラッシュ（スパゲテッティプールのようなもの？）なんて気分的にできません）。
情報収集＋読んで楽しむを半々くらいでよむといいと思います。

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ALF

Not great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 25, 2013

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'Give them a box of tissues to pull out the tissues'....? My 12 month old thought of that all by himself.

Really if you own pans, boxes, a tv remote, a washing machine, books, windows to look out of, cupboards, spoons, a few toys, a voice, a face, know a few other humans and ever leave the house you have more than enough entertainment for toddlers of this age. You don't need ideas from this book unless you yourself are bored. Your toddler is unlikely to be. Hang tough for a 'pre-school' book, art/ activity ideas will be worth a look at then.

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Cherry Shopper

Excellent Activity Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 5, 2014

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This book is well worth purchasing. It has several activities that uses products that you already have in your home. What I found useful was going through the book with yellow stickies and flagging activities I knew my children would love to do. On a day that they were bored or I wanted to plan an activity I just picked one of the yellow stickies. I found the playdough recipe very good...it's far cheaper than buying.

Matthew's mummy

Very handy indeed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 11, 2011

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This is a really good book packed full of stuff that you can do with your toddler - my little one always needs to be kept busy and this book is full of good ideas. There are a wide range of activities to include a little bit of everything. The book even gives you a list of items you need before describing how to proceed with the activity. There's definitely good fun to be had by all.

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