Stacking games for toddlers

Stacking blocks, boxes or cushions into a tower and then knocking them down is a lot of fun. Through stacking and building games, children learn how to balance things to keep a tower upright. These games also help children practise hand-eye coordination.

And they introduce children to early numeracy skills like size, height, comparison, order and so on. For example, how many blocks do I need to make the tower this high? Should I put the bigger box or the smaller box on next?

Your child can build and stack with blocks. You can't win the game, if your cake can't stay in place. And you will have to start playing all over again, if your chair construction topples over.

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I like to think of myself as a frugal mom. I try to do as many activities and games as I can with things that I already have instead of spending money. The thing I love about that is how you can reuse the same supplies for another activity, game, or toy later on as your kids grow and develop in their skills.

Since that time we have used many different household items and toy items as rings for our DIY stacking toys. When my daughter was still only about 9 months old we played with this DIY toy a whole lot. Truth be told this was a fantastic sensory and fine motor activity for her. I used as much variety at one time as I could with old costume jewelry bracelets, straws, shower curtain rings, rubber bracelet bands, bangles etc. Today at 16 months I can hand her just about anything to use for a stacking activity and she knows exactly what to do and can always seem to pull it off.

First grab the paper towel holder and set it out where your baby or toddler can easily play with it. For babies I find it best to start with the rings on the toy and just let baby focus on taking them off instead of stacking them on.

Place a few rings on the tower slowly while they are watching you. Then pass one to them and see what happens. She also spent a lot of time putting the rings on and then taking them off and putting them into the basket.

And the bonus with the mason jar lids is the sensory of sound when they clink together. You could have a smaller opening basket or bag you can hold instead so your toddler can work on inserting the rings into the smaller opening also!

We also did this one using a paper towel roll and a paper plate as the base. Just a touch of hot glue to hold it together and you are ready to stack! For this activity I got my son involved. Charlie is a 3 year old boy who loves fine motor activities.