Toddler Physical Development

Learn how to prepare yourself for talking to your pediatrician about your sick child.

Read how to promote your baby's physical development -- from rolling and crawling to standing and walking.

Sharpen your baby's eye-hand coordination with this busy fingers activity.

Your child will have fun with this activity, which involves a great deal of controlled movement.

The high water activity will help to strengthen your child's muscles and improve her ability to concentrate.

The gravity challenge activity will help your child develop her sense of balance.

This activity will teach your child how to control his limbs in an enclosed space.

This activity provides the kind of visual cues that get most children moving at top speed.

This checklist can help you explore your child's unique sensory portrait and identify sensitivities, triggers, and patterns underlying any worrisome behaviors.

Growing muscles make young children feel powerful. This is the perfect age for racing you across the yard.

This activity will use up all that toddler energy! Toddlers love to build things and then knock them down.

Direct your child to walk in different ways, and you'll help him master both his mind and his body.

There are so many body parts and so many new words to learn! This activity makes it fun to learn all about the human anatomy.

Toddlers love to jump, but usually need help finding a safe place to do it. This activity challenges your child to think before moving.

Your toddler will love to move her feet when motivated by the sound of a jingle bell sewn onto her socks.

This game teaches young children when and how to move their body in order to toss objects into a large laundry basket.

Work with your child to transfer water from bottle to bottle in this fun activity.

This activity challenges your child's fine-motor skills by asking him to slide poker chips through a slot into a can.