Running out of ideas to entertain my toddler and preschooler. Help! One eats everything and the other is in full three-nager mode.

  • @Im_old
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    31 year ago

    Manual activities that they can get involved in: make play dough, beads on a string, decorating paper planes, dress up, lego, build a track for toy cars. If you can fill a bath and let them play in it. Mine could splash happily for half an hour. With some effort you can play pass the parcel, or assign to each of them a sound to make and you are the conductor like in a band. Darken a room and give out flashlights. Build a fort/castle.

    Good luck!

    • @TotOPM
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      11 year ago

      We’ve raced cars around, made paper airplanes, the 3 yr old made me draw everything she could think of. I like these ideas. Some won’t work with the 18 month old but you’ve given me ideas for her too. Thank you!

      • @Im_old
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        21 year ago

        18 months is challenging… It will get messy, but if you have painting colours, put some on a paper plate and then let her “paint” with different things: toy car, balls, pasta…

        On youtube there are videos of dancing fruit… For a 10 minutes break they are great, especially if you can make them dance as well.