What are they playing with?/speaking yet?
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My daughter is not in daycare, I WFH so she stays home with me. She can say 6+ word sentences & ask conversational questions 🤯 We do a lot of singing & dancing. I bought her a puppet and she uses a play voice to engage with the puppet. We read a ton, a lot of “I want to read the book again” for the 5th time 😂 Every day is different as far as the things we do. We do a craft, she has screen time during lunch (Super Why is our fav right now), flash cards, independent play & I play when she asks me to play with her or when I’m free during work!
Have you talked to your pediatrician about this? My daughter has had conversational speech for a while now, but seems very advanced compared to her playmates. At the very least tho, I’d expect your child to be saying simple phrases to communicate what they want (more food, go outside, etc.). The combination of slow speech development and not interested in play would having me wanting a referral for further assessment and speech therapy.
Our son loves riding his balance bike, pushing a doll stroller, magnatiles, Mario kart rc racer and a Mario doll he goes to sleep with ☺️he likes putting Mario in the stroller, pretend Mario is reading books and making Mario jump and moving him. As for speech, he can make pretty long sentences but mind you, he speaks mandarin with no English, so it’s easier for him to make longer sentences 👍 he also goes to day care so the couple hours he’s at home there’s a lot of seating and eating, reading books, playing in the bath and having fun while reading.
My son’s longest “sentence” was 7 words but it wasn’t grammatically correct. I play with him all the time and follow his lead. He has always loved playing though. If your child doesn’t play, what do they do during the day? Our routine is roughly: breakfast, play inside, go outside or out somewhere, lunch, read, nap, inside play, snack, outside, make dinner/eat, bath, read, bed.
My son goes to daycare. He's really into dinosaurs at the moment. At home he runs around pretending to be t-rex. Daycare fully encourages his love for dinosaurs and has started teaching him the names. He mostly calls them saursaur, Aladar (his favourite movie Dinosaur), or by a couple syllables of the real name (certops)