Downtime Toddlers 100 Big Fun Things

A truck, a spoon, a puppy, a slice of watermelon — this one gathers up a hundred ordinary things a toddler already knows and gives each one its own page, big enough to fill without a plan and simple enough to finish without help. Nothing here is trying to be a scene. There is one object, thick outlined, sitting in open space that has no opinion about which color it should become. Trains sit next to teddy bears, apples sit next to balloons, and none of it asks a small child to notice more than one thing at a time. Crayons and colored pencils are the right tools; markers will bleed through and are better left in the drawer. Pictures fill both sides of every page, which is useful, because a toddler with a hundred things to color rarely stops at ten.