Ideas needed re : keeping toddler busy
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Topic: Ideas needed re : keeping toddler busy
Posted By: Kazzle
Subject: Ideas needed re : keeping toddler busy
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 3:32pm
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Okay so Rhiannon has decided that she doesnt need to sleep during the day anymore...which means i need to keep her occupied.
having the house on the market, there is only so much i can do here at home without having to do major cleanups...and i really cant afford to take her out every day. we are doing the painting drawing playdough reading dancing its the afternoons that i need help with ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 3:54pm
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make her help with hanging out washing etc.
Baking (muffins or anything that needs stirring is real good) making a toy - eg telephone and tins and then she will play with them for a while Quiet time....make her sit and read a book quietly and in desperation I guess - tv time??? Outdoors fun - go to the pools, the park, feed ducks, count letterboxes etc on a walk, walk to the shops etc.... |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 5:47pm
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put her in the pram and go for a walk. i thought that toby didnt need a nap anymore but when we started walking gabriel to kindy he would fall asleep so he did need the nap after all.
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Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 6:04pm
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oh she needs a nap, just wont go to sleep....little monkey....we dont have a pram...so that wont work...but im sure i will work something out ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 6:12pm
oh, what do you do when you go out then? ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Kazzle wrote:Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 6:26pm
| "cleaning" - doing dishes, washing her "babies", give a squirt bottle of water and a dishcloth |
Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 6:31pm
she walks everywhere....we have an umbrella stroller but she doesnt like to sit in it...so she walks or runs as the case may be 
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 7:29pm
Oh yeah Alyssa loves playing in the sink with some water and bubbles... Often pesters me by saying "wash" repeatedly whilst trying to pull out the dining room chair (which is what she stands on at the sink). The plus side to this is that I can start making dinner preparations while next to her. |
Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 8:06pm
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I tend to part fill a bucket with water (warm in winter) and pop her tea set outside with the water for her to play with. She loves splashing about. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 8:10pm
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Ditto what Pepsi said! Isla gets out her big plastic apron thing that I stick on her when she 'washes dishes'(to save her clothes form getting wet cos she HATES getting changed!), and nags me to let her do it!
She does the same in the batheroom when I clean in there. We have a big cardborard box which has given us hours of fun,...ages ago we cut a door, a hole to cral in and diff shaped windows,..now Isla is pulling all the top layer off so that it looks corrugated,..and then we will paint it soon! Have a tea party! Isla loves it! We put one of her little blankets on the lounge floor,...set up her dolls teddys, and play with her tea set. We just pretend,..so theres no mess to clean up! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 12 May 2008 at 10:04pm
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I just put together a heap of free ideas for entertaining toddlers, they're in the Toddler section. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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