Early childhood development starts at home with the most basic everyday items that you, as a parent, have laying around in your house.

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With these fun day-to-day activities you and your little one can have loads of fun while crawling around and making new memories while encouraging cognitive and language development.

1. Did you say textures?

Make use of the fact that your toddler wants to hold, taste and touch everything in sight by making posters with letters on them. Give your tot pipe cleaners, pieces of sticky paper, beans, pasta or any textured items for them to decorate these letters. This activity will help them feel the way a letter or number is formed before they learn how to write it.
Also say out loud the numbers and letters everyday and your tot will begin to recognize it on billboards or even in a magazine. Remember: Repetition is key.

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2. Organize it

Showing your children that everything in the house has its own place is a very good sensory activity for them to learn, as well as showing them that being organized will make things so much easier to find.
Label some of the drawers and cupboards such as 'toys', 'clothes' or even the refrigerator. Get creative and turn this activity into a fun guessing game by asking your tot "Where does your toys go?" or "Where are your clothes?".
You can even make it more interesting and put the toys in the refrigerator or the milk in his/her toy box and ask them to fix the problem by matching the items with the correct places.

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3. Let's go scavenging

Kids are natural born investigators and love playing hide-and-seek, so why not make learning about colours and shapes a fun activity for your tot as well as yourself, especially while grocery shopping. Set a task for your tot to find any objects of a certain colour (like blue) or a certain shape (like a square) or even a certain letter (like L) while you are browsing the magazine stands for the latest copy of Cosmopolitan.
You can then test them by asking which object is blue and which object is a square or to make a word with the letter they found. You can also incorporate this in your own house, but why not make day-to-day chores more fun.

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4. Location, location, location

Going for walks with your little one in your neighbourhood is not only good excersise and a breath of fresh air, but its also important for your tot to know their surroundings.
By passing places such as the dry cleaners, supermarket, fire station or even the park you can familiarize your tot with these places and what happens there. You can also teach them about who we can find in those places or what items we can find. You can then make flash cards with pictures of these places on them and on your next walk you can ask your little one to associate the activities or items with the places that you pass each day.

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5. Sing along

Take out that master rapping skills of yours and make some great rhymes and songs about counting to ten, farm animals, parts of the body or even the time.
By singing and remembering the words to a rhyme your little one will automatically remember this information much faster and what greater way to learn things through song. You can even make up a little dance.
Also encourage singing in the car and at home while its bath or play time.

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A positive, fun and loving environment makes early development in children so much more sufficient.

By creating fun activities out of day-to-day chores and teaching your little one things through song and picture, you might just be raising the next Madame Curie or Einstein.

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