Keep in mind parents will carry on a one-way conversation at this age. Frequent phone calls with planned topics. You dropped your snow cone and we had to buy a new one and the monkeys were so silly. Read stories onto cassette or video tapes. Send pictures cut from magazines and photos.
Most children also love riddles.
Send a drawing you have started to your child to finish. Enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope so it can be returned to you. Talk about the drawing on the phone or on a taped message. Send a magazine subscription and get one for yourself, too. Read and share the stories over the phone or on tape.