Fun with Toddlers!

[Ozziehoffy]

Mel, you're a good mummy!!!

Ok...today, we've read books whilst eating brekky...ahhhhh try to get him to sit still...lol.
Played row row row your boat
Mummy does silly dances
Walked around the garden
Rebuilt the cubby house
Played outside with toys

Our tv is on when at home, mainly for noise really. Sometimes I turn the radio on but find that gets annoying when I hear the same songs it feels like GROUNDHOG day...lol. Ever noticed they play them around the same time every day?

Cai...love the painting with water outside idea!!! We have plenty of concrete for that to work!

[Enchanted]

We do a lot of the ideas above but one I love is that the other day I bought Oscar a Bubble Wand! So we head outside most afternoons now and make bubbles! He loves running around trying to catch them!

[Jewel]

Our tv is on most of the time aswell. I'm guilty of that too.
We watch playschool and the other cartoons together. He likes to sing along to the cartoons little songs, and so I have to do it with him.

He makes up games to play. We do pretending games most days. The weather has been crappy so we've been doing colouring in and drawing alot lately, where as we're usually outside alot doing whatever he feels like while I hang the washing out, etc.

Today he's playing alot by himself. Doing jigsaws. Writing numbers and other things like that. We'll prob walk to the park later or something. He usually likes to help with the clothes folding and making dinner, setting the table, etc.
I just go with the flow most of the time.

Thanks for the thread, Mel! it's giving me more ideas too.

[maz]

Ah Mel..honey nothing wrong with having a free baby sitter some times

hmm...what did we do today......

Went down the street were I let Vy pick out an inflatable santa and gave her the money to pay for it.
Meet my parents down there and she loved walking with her Mah - mah. WE hung up chrissy deco's together...she was the foreman and was telling me I was a good girl oh and we bought some snowman chair covers that we decided to wear first..and fell over laughing doing it. We also put potatoes down our tops and giggles like idiots. We sat on the ground and rolled a ball to each other and made silly fart noises

Mel - life is what ya make of it babe...you dont have to go out and buy stuff, or take them to special groups to entertain your kiddies.....house hold chores can be fun and not boring if the kids come and help. I dont know how many times a nappy has been on my head and i just didnt know how to find it with out Vy's help

Let the inner dork out babe!!! you can do it!!!!!

[Arimeh]

Thanks heaps for the ideas guys.. I've been out this morning with DS - he was such a good boy in his stroller, and went shopping with me - and I brought him a truck from crazy clarks for $2 for his good behaviour.. he was stoked.. lol

Didn't end up taking him to the park - its pretty crappy weather.

I went out again once he went to sleep and brought some chalk (for outside) and a colouring in book, and some paintbrushes - thanks HEAPS for those ideas !!!!

I also got some paint for finger painting and he liked that for about two seconds and then wanted to paint his tractors eyes blue... lol