DS is 17 months but it hasn't changed hugely in the last 2 months except the weather has got better.
Typical day:
8 - wake up, get dressed
9 - go to mum + toddler group at children's centre (usually have breakfast here, depending what time we get up as they do toast)
10.30 - snack of fruit at group
11.30 - leave group, walk home, DS has a sleep
1-2pm - DS wakes up, we have lunch
*(Rest of afternoon)
5pm - start dinner
5.30-6pm eat dinner
6.30-7pm brush teeth, bath (not every day), bed
*Rest of afternoon, things we do (going out)
Walk to the park
Feed the ducks
Just go for a walk and let DS go wherever he wants and look at whatever he wants (barring obvious things like roads, dog poo etc!)
Go to other park where there are loads of pigeons unfazed by people
Look around the shops - always include ELC or other place he can try things out, even just a bank with a bead table - will also look in charity shops for new books and DS looks at his books while I look at "boring stuff" in other shops.
Go to the library
Go to other toddler groups
Go to see friends/family
Go out for lunch, somewhere cheap, occasionally. Maybe with a friend or just me and DS.
Go to other park which is just a big open space - will usually take a ball or something
Go swimming
Go for a walk and see the horses in the field
If staying in:
Put music on and dance around
Do housework and let DS "help" - e.g. putting dirty washing in a basket, or in the machine, letting him "sweep" the floor when I have done it, washing up, I scoop some of the bubbles off the top and give him them to play with in a plastic tub with a spare washing up brush. He also likes my handheld hoover and gets upset when the batteries run out and he can't do any more hoovering!
Playing physical games like hiding behind a door and jumping out saying "boo" or letting him close the door and open it, or running along the landing at me, chasing him around on all fours, tickling, short piggyback rides, etc.
Let him run around in the garden (tiny concrete yard, but he just likes being outside) - it's enclosed so I can do things inside and see him out of the window and hear him when the door is open.
Pull all sofa cushions onto the floor and let him pile them up/climb over them/etc.
Give him a bath in the afternoon rather than at bedtime.
Invite friends/family over here.
Actual toys he likes (to play with alone or with me)
Balls or anything like them e.g. balloons
Stacking rings set
Stacking cups, blocks, skittles, anything to knock over
Wooden jigsaws with the little handles, especially if the pictures are repeated on the board (so he is matching pictures rather than just shapes and holes)
Shape sorter
Books - board books are good for being less destructible, but he loves at the moment big hardback children's books with sturdy paper pages, though he tends to wreck them if left to read them alone.
Bags and boxes - a big hit at the moment
Keys, supermarket cards, mobile phones, my shoes, wooden spoon - anything "real"
Bead table thing
Push along truck or doll's pushchair
Cars
Tea set
Mega blocks/duplo/sticklebricks
Little model animals like they sell in ELC
ELC whizz around mountain
Things which make flashy lights and tunes
Anything thomas the tank themed or ITNG themed (Obviously this depends on your child)
DVDs/CBeebies (!)
Craft:
Don't really do much craft with DS yet. I sometimes let him draw or colour but only in his highchair/booster chair sat to the table. An aquadraw thing is supposed to be good and I am probably going to get him one of those so he can "draw" when he wants to.
HTH