Collect old telephone books and wrap them in paper; old newspaper, holiday wrapping paper or any paper large enough will do. Lay out the wrapped phone books on the floor in a straight line with the books touching each other. Pretend the phone books are balance beams and have the children walk on them from start to finish.
Make a face out of felt with extra pieces for the mouth and eyebrows that will make the face look happy, scared, sad, excited, mad and worried. Place the face on a felt board and have the children guess what the emotion is. Ask the toddlers to mimic the facial expressions you are making with the felt face.
Make edible finger paint by mixing a box or two of instant vanilla pudding. Add food coloring to create different colors of paint, or have the children help with the coloring. Cover a table with a plastic or vinyl cloth, tape heavy craft paper to the table, and let the kids finger paint with the colored pudding. While they're painting, have them play with the pudding and talk about how it feels when they squish it between their fingers. Ask the toddlers to smell the pudding paint -- they'll want to taste it, too. Have soap and water on hand for cleaning up once the artwork is complete.
To help toddlers learn the all-important skill of taking turns while teaching them a familiar song, you will need a plastic boat -- or anything that you can pretend is a boat -- large enough for one child to sit in. While everyone sings "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" one time, each child in turn can do anything in, on or around the boat he or she wishes. At the end of the song, the child hands the boat to the next toddler in line.