Toddler Timeline

  • Baby Born

  • 30-36 Months Cognitive

    -Tries out various roles in make-belive play
    -Asks name of objects and repeats them
    -Tries new play activities to discover more about how things work
    -Reveals intellectual curiousity in reading books and watching TV
    -Recognizes self in photographs
  • 13-15 Months Physical

    13-15 Months Physical
    -Starts cruising along furniture which helps begin walking.
    -Can open small, hinged boxes
    -May climb out of crib, high chair, or stroller
    -Builds small towers of blocks
    -May be able to back down stairs
  • 13-15 Months Cognitive

    13-15 Months Cognitive
    -Slowly increases voabulary to 4 to 6 words
    -Shows interest in texture
    -Experiments new actions never tried before
    -Pats recgonized pictures
    -Responds to name
  • 16-18 Months Physical

    16-18 Months Physical
    -Walking fastly and running stiffly
    -Begins to scribble
    -Pushes and pulls large toys along the ground
    -Likes to grab anything and anything
    -Jumps with both feet
  • 16-18 Months Cognitive

    16-18 Months Cognitive
    -Remembers where objects belong
    -Imitates simple sounds on request
    -Identifies simple pictures in book
    -Tries to imitate the ways parents use objects
    -Responds delightedly to children's TV shows
  • 19-21 Months Physcial

    19-21 Months Physcial
    -Jumps forward and in place
    -Can fold a piece of paper after seeing someone else do it
    -Can kick large ball
    -Builds tower of five or four blocks
    -Runs without falling often
  • 19-21 Months Cognitive

    19-21 Months Cognitive
    -Has vocabulary of about 20 words
    -Matches sounds to the animals that make them
    -Places circles, triangles, and squares in form boards
    -Constantly asks 'Whats that?"
    -Combines two different words
  • 22-24 Months Physical

    -Can throw ball into basket
    -Holds crayon with thumb and finger
    -Can seat self in small chair with ease
    -Bounces and sways in simple dancing movements
    -Learns to play with modeling clay
  • 22-24 Months Cognitive

    22-24 Months Cognitive
    -Has vocabulary of 50 words or more
    -Understands and asks for 'another' or 'more'
    -Is curious about objects in environment
    -Identifies familiar objects on TV screen
    -May be able to draw pictures and distinguish what they are
  • 24-30 Months Physical

    24-30 Months Physical
    -Opens doors by turning knobs
    -Plays on swings, ladders, and other playground equipment
    -Can soap hands and arms
    -Can carefully turn pages of book one page at a time
    -Enjoys running but it unable to measure certain stops
  • 24-30 Months Cognitive

    -Likes to listen to music
    -Vocabulary 200-500 words
    -Is better able to plan a plan activity and carry it out
    -Likes to imitate drawings of older children
    -Refers to self by name
  • 30-36 Months Physical

    -Eats with forks
    -Enjoys games involving running
    -Throws ball overhead but aim is still poor
    -Likes to paint using full arm motions combined with finger motions
    -LIkes to be in constant motion, running, or walking sideways or backward
  • 30-36 Months Cognitive

    -Recgonizes self in photographs
    -Asks names of objects and repeeats them
    -Becomes more skilled in putting puzzles together
    -Reveals intellectual curiousity in reading books and watching TV
    -Tries out various roles in make-believe play