I need some ideas for indoor activities for an almost 3 yr old, and 20 month old...both girls. We color, play w/ play dough, read books, they just seem to be getting bored...help, I'm getting bored too!!
The almost 3 yr old is mine, and I babysit the 20 month old. I also watch a 4 yr old occasionaly
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play something active and physical before naps, this way theyw ill be beat out. Some games are simon says, ring around the rosie, 5 little monkeys, scarf games (those flimsy decorativee scarfs for women are wicked fun when your that age, let them each have a scarf and tell them it is a bat, bird etc and they have to fly it around, give them directions on what to do such as fly on your pinky or fly in circles, land on your nose, stretch to the sky etc)
For quiet activities we make hand puppets out of brown lunch bags (we recently made santas. I had all the parts already cut out and a sample one made for them to look at, then i let them go loose and make theirs, they had some creative takes on santa!) after that we done a play with our puppets and sang christmas songs.
Also getting them to sit down and tear up paper in certain colors and pictures from catalogs that are that color and then pasting them to a seperate page to create a collage of that color (such as tearing up diffrent green papers and pictures of green things, green string and buttons, green sparkles etc and then let them choose what they glue down, good for color recognition, fine motor skills, creativity etc)
finger paint is a wonderful but messy activity they love. Water and sand play is also another activity they enjoy but could get messy.
baking cookies and decorating them is a lot of fun for young children.
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Bake some cookies! If you do it from scratch, the 3 year old can help stir and shape the cookies.
Make an indoor fort or princess castle
Sing silly songs or make up stories.
Read books
play follow the leader
Make princess crowns out of construction paper or christmas ornaments or snow flakes.
Bundle up, run around outside for 20 or30 minutes and then come in and get warm and have hot chocolate.
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my mother and law and i just spent all weekend baking christmas cookies i guess its a tredition but any way there is some thing fun get sprinkles and iceing its some things u can do every year to spend time with the girls wehn they grow up they might pick that up with their children. back when i was in 3rd grade my mother homed schooled my brother and i and i remember making a pinyada( how ever u spell it ) its kinda messy but fun for kids google how to make it. just google and find arts and crafts to do, they will enjoy glitter and glue adn its some thing u will always keep, when they get older show them. here is a few idea hope they help happy holidays!
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put them in the bathtub with some toys or plastic measuring cups and let them stay there till they're prunes.
let them wash their plastic toys in the sink or a big dishpan on the floor.
turn on rock and roll (not baby music) and dance! (okay you can use kid music if you really want to, but why would you want to?)
get out the pots and pans and spoons and make a lot of noise
bring some snow in the house and put some food coloring in it