Milestone Chart for Children - Milestones for Baby up to Three Years Old - Development Chart for Kids less than 3 Years Old

Milestone Chart for Children (Two and a Half to Three Years Old)

This milestone chart is for kids who are thirty-one months to thirty-six months old. It enumerates skills that children normally do, are still learning and the ones that they might do though they are still advanced for their age, month by month, from thirty one months of age to the age of thirty six months or three years:

Age of the Child

Common Skills

Skills Still Learning

Rare Skills

31 and 32 months old or just two and a half years old

Can stack up to six blocks to make a tower

Knows at least six body parts by names
Throws ball overhand

Puts on a T-shirt on his own

Can keep balance on each foot for a moment or two
Learns to brush teeth on his own

Calls friend by names

Washes and dries hands on his own
Can use up to two adjectives in one sentence

33 and 34 months old

Can name colors

Can carry on conversations using two to three sentences at once
Can name at least four pictures in a book

Builds tower of up to eight blocks

Starts using prepositions in sentences
Speech is clear

Toilet trained fully, at least during the day

Wiggles thumb
Express many emotions using body language and sounds

35 to 36 months old or three years old

Learn to use at least two common objects well

Uses sentences with about four to five words.

Can describe everyday actions such as jumping and running

Can keep balance on each foot for about three seconds

Can follow more complex commands with tow or three instructions such as go to your room; switch off the lights and go to sleep.

Can stay without parents for sometime and do not cry and wail for them

Learns to hop, skip and jump.

Can draw a circle

Can dress up and down on his own