Toddler Car Passing Social Skills Game
Car playing is often a solitary or parallel activity for toddlers. This activity adds a simple social element to something they already love.
Materials
- Cars or Trucks (We played this with these cars)
To Play
Ask your toddler to stand a few feet away.
Introduce the activity with some simple, such as “I’m going to pass the car to you” and push the car towards them with an excited “Vroom!”
Then invite them to pass it back. “Can you pass the car back to me?”
We played this with these cars that you can pull back and release. Our kids got them around the time they turned 1 and still enjoy them at almost 3.
If they have a sibling or a friend to play with, invite the other child to take over for you after modeling a few times. You could also have your younger child be your “partner” and help you pass the car to the older sibling.
Demonstrating enthusiasm and playing up the ‘driving’ and car noise portions of the activity tend to lengthen the activity.
Play it again?
My toddlers loved doing things again and again and again. Repetition is great, but after you have done this activity several times, here are a couple variations you can try.
*Pass other things together (such as balls or pom poms)
*Drive cars side by side to different destinations.
