cold rainy days and kids

Um do you have duplo or blocks? We love that here and the best thing is it entertains both of mine.

I made Jack a fishing game the other day. Cut out a whole heap of fish shapes, let her colour them in, put a paper clip on each one, tye a magnet onto a pencil and you are away.

Get a spare mattress out and do rolly pollies

play with play dough ($2 shop has heaps of neat accesories to use)

Go through old photo albums and make a special book for her

dress up warm and let her play outside for a wee bit

do some baking

Hope that helps a bit

well the tunnel worked a treat, kept both kids going on and off all afternoon...wah hoo.
thanks ladies for your great ideas, I had never thought about putting the mattress out to do tumbling on....will do this tomorrow....which will be a very easy thing to do since our bedroom is the lounge at the moment so it just means that we don't have to put our bed away
and I am so going to do the fishing thing, I had forgotten about that game, man I used to love it.

The MD's playground is pretty good but I hate going there cos I just can't help myself and end up eatting too many big macs so when everything else did fail, out came micky mouse on dvd, I put the little tv in her bedroom, set up her little couch and gave her popcorn...she truley thought she was in heaven!
Last year DD still had a sleep in the avo and ds was just a bubs. It is still a few months before DD goes to kindy so this entertaining all day is a bit new to me.
One rainy day down, 1000000 to go

the library is a good idea if you have a good one nearby. i used to do that with the kids i looked after. after school we'd go sit in there out of the rain but out of the hosue too.