Vocab Building Worksheets

My mother insists our house is a decorator's nightmare...but it's a homeschooler's dream. There are poster of strange things (according to her), maps, pictures of random stuff, whatever, taped all around. It's great for exploring vocabulary.

Imaginative play is also really great for expanding vocabulary.

The library? Look for great illustrations, Caldacot (sp?) award winners.
Usually the library has somewhere special for you to sit with a little one to read, like a big stuffed alligator. You could try that at home, too.

Pick a theme for the week, an animal, weather, the dentist, and ask the children's librarian for help in finding exciting books to share. Try funny poems you can act out. Act out the story with puppets.

Go once a week or so. He will start to look forward to it.
What a great time in in store for you!

Yah, boys. (I have a boy). Your son is not unusual.
They have less "patience" to just sit down and read a book for minutes on end. Versus, my daughter, would even at 1 years old, just sit with me, even for an hour, to read books. Versus, boys are very kinesthetic.

Anyway, with my son, especially at only 2 years old, I knew he wouldn't just sit with me, like my daughter would, and "read" a book.
So I didn't go that route with him.
I just verbally taught him words.
Or, both my kids have dry-erase boards... and they LOVE it. So I'd write words on it, and just put it near where the kids play, and they vicariously "learn" it. Inadvertently. I didn't push it. And they could scribble on it too.

Sure, coloring books are fun. But again, my son's attention, at 2 years old, was only like 30 seconds. And then he'd scamper off.

I taught my kids, LOTS of words/vocabulary, just by verbally telling it to them. Even while driving in the car and via chatting.
At 2 years old, I taught my daughter the word "compromise." She loved that word, and it was the biggest word she knew at that time. I taught her this word, just verbally... while we were outside in the yard, playing. For example.

At 2 years old, workbooks or flash cards, are not real spot on. Meaning, at that age, they probably won't just sit there, doing it, nor for very long. Unless the child, like my daughter, would sit there. My daughter had great patience and stamina, at that age for being AT a book.

We love Nat Geo Kids magazine here - maybe you could get a subscription and then cut out the pages to use for that?
Or just google search different topics, stories, animals, etc and then print off pages free from the Internet!
You could make like a sort of "learning board"! Decorate it so it looks like fun and will get his attention!
Might also want to try pop-up books and the ones with the little flaps on the pages that he can lift up???

Dollar Tree has all kinds of workbooks and coloring work books that work really well. Good luck!

My son LOVED flashcards at that age. I wen to Target and bought a few boxes. They were a dollar or two each. The Dollar Tree also has flashcards, if you have one near you.There are some really neat ones on etsy, that you can print off at home.

I would not waste time on worksheets at this age.