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When your babies are little, you play with stacking rings and shape sorters. You slide beads on a maze and practice with peg puzzles. When they are older you build puzzles, arrange little figurines, and enter the world of legos. Wooden blocks and their building derivatives (magnatiles, duplos) are good for all ages. But what else can you play in that in-between phase? What sorts of skills can we work on together? Here are three ideas for games you can play with your two year old! <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Educational Games to Play with Your Preschooler<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Two year olds are experts at categorizing items! They are learning their colors, and most astounding to us as parents, their vocabulary is increasing by leaps and bounds. To help them in all these skills we read lots of books together. Starting at about a year old and onwards, our kids have especially loved books with photos of real objects<\/a> they can learn to name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time kids are two, their attention span is starting to increase. For indoor days, I love to find ways to work on fine motor and language skills. (And I’m sure our neighbors appreciate the break from all that gross motor running around. Ha!) So here are three games you can play with your toddler \/ preschooler. Bonus: they are all inexpensive and don’t take up much space! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Lotto<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This Lotto Game<\/a> by Ravensburger is excellent for so many reasons. The board is set up like a bingo board, except that you have to fill your board with cards to win. We put all the cards facing down and take turns flipping over a card and seeing if we have the matching image on our board. If we don’t, the card goes back on the floor face down and it’s the next player’s turn. The Lotto game is great for toddlers because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n