I’m always down for fun and low prep activities to do with Abby, we love this one!!

Box painting is a creative and fun activity for toddlers that involves using different tools to decorate and personalize a cardboard box.

Here are some benefits of box painting for toddlers:

✅ Creative Expression: a simple cardboard is a blank canvas, this is.
✅ Fine Motor Skills: Box painting requires toddlers to use small brushes or their fingers to apply paint, which helps improve their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and finger dexterity. I like to add stickers, brushes of different sizes or markers to practice different fine motor skills.
✅ Sensory Development: Painting stimulates a toddler’s senses by allowing them to explore different textures and colors. It helps them develop their sense of touch, sight, and even smell as they mix and experiment with paint.
✅ Cognitive Development: Box painting also promotes cognitive development by encouraging toddlers to make choices and decisions about what colors and designs they want to use. It helps them develop problem-solving skills and improves their ability to focus and concentrate.
✅ Emotional Development: Painting can be a calming and therapeutic activity for toddlers, helping them develop emotional regulation skills and coping mechanisms for stress or anxiety.

Here are some ideas:
👉🏼 If you want a less messy activity try using chalk, stickers, crayons or colors instead of paint.
👉🏼 Bring the activity outside
👉🏼 Invite little friends or sit with your toddler to spend quality time!
👉🏼 Make this an opportunity to learn: numbers, Allie’s, shapes, spelling their name.
👉🏼 Involve your toddler in preparing the activity and cleaning up.
👉🏼 We use finger paint from crayola

Any other ideas?? Share them in the comments!!!