Your Child at 36 Months
How your child socializes, plays, learns, and communicates provide important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are age-specific tasks and behaviors.
Use this Developmental Checklist to track your child’s progress.
Contact Honu Intervention with any questions or concerns about your developing child. You can also download this checklist here.
Physical
Climbs well
Walks up and down stairs without assistance
Swings leg to kick a ball
Runs well
Picks up objects without falling
Throws a ball with direction
Self-Care
Helps with brushing teeth
Puts shoes on without ties
Puts trash in the trash bin
Washes body with help
Washes and dries hand with help for
reaching
Communication
Follows two and three-step instructions
Has a name for most familiar things
Understands positional words such as “on,” “out,” and “under”
Says name, age, and sex when asked
Uses pronouns such as “I,” “you,” “me,” and “we”
Understands relationships (ex. Mommy’s baby)
Understands most things said
Has conversations using at least 2 sentences
Understands the concepts “same” and “different”
Cognitive
Plays make-believe
Copies markings on paper (ex. Horizontal and vertical lines, circles)
Builds a tower of 8 blocks
Names some colors
Recalls parts of a story
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Cannot jump in place
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Cannot build a tower of 5 cubes
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Shows no interest in others (ignores)
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Doesn’t engage in make-believe play
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Resists in routine activities (e. dressing, potty training, sleeping, brushing teeth)
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Doesn’t use more than three-word sentences
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Doesn’t make eye contact
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Drools or speech is unclear
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Can’t play with toys without banging, dropping, or fidgeting
Concerned about "red-flag" behaviors? Take this Developmental Red-Flags Questionnaire and receive professional feedback.
Social
Copies adults and other children
Takes turns without reminders
Shows sympathy for others
Separates from caregivers easily
Dresses and undresses self
