Taking 2.5 year old to do activities

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Just curious to know how often people take their toddlers out to do activities i.e soft play, swimming etc etc?

Only on the weekends while at work, or a couple of times a week if I’m at home with her.

I work three days a week. On my 4 days off we’ll be doing activities 2-3 times a week

Depends hugely. Not after nursery as he's too tired.

Weekend days we generally go for a walk/to the shops and might do an activity like soft play or swimming but not every weekend.

An organised class type thing once per week. She's in nursery 4 days a week so I think that's more than enough "enrichment" to be honest. Aside from that we walk, go to the park, go out to eat, see friends etc.

We leave the house at least once everyday that DS isn’t in nursery, so 4 days per week. But often just to the park, the cafe round the corner or to town on the bus. Rarely soft play, very very rarely swimming (bad parents I know). Toddler group once a week is good for £2.

A three days of nursery, then 2-3 days either with activities or seeing friends or both.

2 times a month on average.
She does 4 long days at nursery that are jam packed with activities so she’s knackered by the weekend.

We live rurally though and do lots of outdoor things (we keep hens and a horse) and projects at home (gardening, baking, crafts) so I don’t feel the need to fill the time with paid things.

We struggle with swimming though as it’s an hour to a pool at weekends. But we will start regular swimming lessons once she’s at school and we can do weekday eves. There’s a private pool that does classes but we can’t get to them now (I will work school hours over 5 days once she starts).

Mine (recently turned 3, but this has been our routine for at least a year) has 3 days of nursery a week, we do a toddler class one weekday, either stay at home
or maybe run errands the remaining weekday and at the weekend we go swimming as a family. The other weekend day we do a family trip/activity maybe once a month, otherwise we might play at home, do gardening or go to the park.

We used to go out every day - probably something morning, back for lunch & nap & something in afternoon. We didn't do many paid activities - think it was gymnastics class one morning & a few local toddler group type activities. We didn't have much money when ours were tiny so lots of free stuff - museum, library, city farm, park. Soft play and cafes were a rare treat. We did have a zoo pass which meant free days out once pass was bought.

Mine is 2 and not at nursery. We go to one paid for class a week as can't afford more than that. My husband might start to take him swimming at the weekend as he loves the water and loved it on hol last year.
We go out at least once a day, mostly twice to break it up. We walk, go to the park, go around town, go to the supermarket, national trust, local free farm.
He isn't much into crafts or baking(yet) but in the summer we also spend most of our time in the garden with a paddling pool, tuff tray with kinetic sand, vehicles, balls etc. I'd like to do more classes in yhe winter months tbh but I have tried all the free (or £1ish) church toddler play groups and find them so boring. It's basically what we do at home but in a room full of strangers and no one speaks to anyone they don't know!

When DD was 2.5 we went to toddler group once a week and that was it. Otherwise In the week I took her to the park, library, soft play and the shops. We had big days out every now and then. This was in 2016.

When DS was 2.5 he was in preschool for a few hours per week (summer born so I wanted him to start a bit earlier, I think he started with 6hrs) and went to the same toddler group as DD. We also went to the usual places, but he was 2.5 in early 2021 so things were a bit different!

In nursery 4 days so we venture out on a weekend.
Soft play, swimming, park, cafe for cake etc

I have a 2.5yo and a just turned 4yo. They are in nursery 2 days. Other days we go to a toddler group, Bookbug in library and general trips to shops (although this is getting harder as 4yo too big for double buggy now and I need them contained). Summer easier as can go to parks and walks. We go to soft play every few weeks, but only on weekdays when deals on and no bigger kids.

2.5yo has no patience for eating out so only do that if he naps. Picnics are well received though and visiting relatives.

I’m at home full-time and mine doesn’t go to nursery at all (which feels like an unusual situation nowadays). We try to get out everyday. More for my sanity than anything else!

Mine was 2.5 just before Covid kicked in. At the time we went to a Church toddler group on a Monday afternoon, a bouncy castle and toys session at the local sports centre on a Tuesday morning, a story and craft session at a local community centre on a Wednesday morning and a different Church toddler group on a Thursday morning. I'm trying to think what we did on Fridays but can't remember. She'd also just started ballet on a Saturday morning and went to a toddler football class on a Sunday morning. Then Covid hit and it all stopped.

Same here! I have 2 under 2 and my oldest is only 1.5 (so not 2.5 years) but I always feel like the odd one out saying that she doesn’t go nursery yet. I read the conments and realised I barely do any of these things with my DD. She’s been to soft play once. Never been to the farm etc. She does go to two toddler groups a week but they’re an hour and a half max so it’s not all that great.

I defo need to do more with her!

Mine does ballet and football every week, as well as a couple of toddler groups. Soft play at least once a week and the park nearly every afternoon. We have a lot to do locally within walking distance so its easy to do an activity a day to wear them out without too much effort. I'm too lazy for swimming though.

I have an almost 3 year old and an almost 1 year old. They don't do any activities.

There are no classes/groups where we are and we can't afford the cost of swimming. I can't swim anyway, which means it would be down to my DP to take both of them and it wouldn't feel safe to try to keep an eye on two non-swimming small children.

They're both starting 2 10hr days of nursery a week next month when my maternity leave ends so they'll be busy there and with 4 jobs between us, me and DP won't have time to take them to activities.

I have a 1 and 4 year old, we have a toddler class or play group every day, usually an hour. The rest of the day we go to the park, visit family, go for walks, play at home. The 4yo goes to nursery once a week and they both have weekly swimming lessons. We hardly ever go to soft play as I hate it but we have a day out like farm, zoo, museum etc probably once a month

Mine just turned 3 and I'm on maternity leave with his baby brother.

He's in nursery 2 days a week. He spends one day a week at my in-laws' house and they will sometimes go to the park or garden centre but otherwise they just play in the house and garden. Once a week my mum takes him to a forest school stay and play. On Fridays I take him to a music group with the baby which is quite nice because they both enjoy it in different ways.

On a typical weekend we'll do something like see a friend, visit the museum or city farm, or go to story time at the library on one of the days, and go to the park or for a walk in the woods the other day. He also really enjoys coming along with me or DH to do the big supermarket shop.