Helping toddler curiosity grow

Curiosity is one if the basic fundamentals of learning. As you know from spending time with your children, if your child isn’t curios about something it’s impossible to keep them interested. The key is to help your children be curious about the world and about learning overall. Emphasizing that learning itself is fun and rewarding will help build your child’s curiosity and make them engaged learners and happy students.

Here's a few ways to create a stimulating learning environment

Infant
• Colors, shapes and movement – create an environment with interesting things to look at.
• Placement – putting toys and objects just out of baby’s reach will allow them to stretch and help develop early problem solving skills
• Multi sensory – smell, touch and taste can be a lot of fun. Try flowers, fabric and interesting foods
• Bubbles – another sensory experience that will keep your baby interested for hours
• Sound – musical toys, instruments (chimes and rattles) and games can keep a baby engaged for hours

Toddler
• Offer choices – let your toddler make simple choices such as what pajamas to wear, what activities to do (color or draw), what drink to have at a meal
• Surround them with educational resources - books, music and art supplies. Make easy for them to pick up education all around the room
• Take it on the road – libraries, zoos, museums, toddlers want to be on the move when it comes to curiosity and education

Sources: http://www2.scholastic.com/
http://toddler.yeahbaby.com/