Fun with Toddlers!

[Rouge]

Hehehehehe its great fun isn't it

[Olive]

sure is, even daddy is liking it!!

[Rouge]

The best thing is there is no mess, and it doesn't matter if they get it on their clothes

At Kinder they used to paint the cubby house

[Olive]

hehehe your right about the mess and its hot today so its perfect! except she put her cheerios in to the bucket as well!

[Gigi]

Arimeh - you are the BEST for starting this thread!

Please MODS can you turn it into a sticky?

i'm off to google "ABC Playground Radio" - thanks AJP!

i have just started bringing out playdough for bilbs. we don't have a table, so she does it on a stable table (tray you eat off of usually).

i try to turn off telly after playschool too, but sometimes, i want to hear some adult voices, like Kim and David (not the infomercial crap that keeps coming on!!). as long as they are interviewing somebody.

bilby wants me to blow bubbles ALL DAY with her, it's her new "thing". i just can't do it forever.

[Olive]

mel sophie is obsessed with the watering can!! loves it!

gigi our kindy make the best playsdough!!!! silky smooth stuff, bubbles are a hit here too

[Tannis]

Awesome thread Mel!! I am SOOO guilty of having the TV on all day too! Jayden is getting really glued to it lately and even know whats coming up next on Nick Jnr! I am proud to say that yesterday the TV wasn't turned on at all!

Today we played outside on the swings (Chris finally finished putting it together, only took since xmas eve last year!), chased the dogs around the backyard, did a few wees in the dirt even did a poo! (dogs cleaned that up for me! Ewwww), I hung the washing then I took Jayden to his grandparents house (mummy left her phone there last night!) He played on the go cart and bikes there. Got home and he watched TV then I put a movie on for him (Cars again!) so I could deal with a very unsettled baby. Now both are asleep and I should be cleaning up.

[maz]

we mad ecoloured rice aswell and filled some spes bottles so they can watch the different colours. I leave some in a sqaure container so the kids can 'burry' cars in it. they love it.

Gigi - you can buy bubble swords from the regest shop that let the kids swirl around and make HUGE bubbles

Im also gonna get some cardboard, make it into cards and let the kids draw on them for chrissy cards this year

[tiggerandpooh]

great thread mel. well done. loving these ideas too. Today we have read stories, built a zoo with the duplo, played with cars, and trainsl, aston loves to help me clean (!!!) so has helped out with that. played ghosts (where we have to go under his big muslin wrap and pretend to be ghosts). I sorted out all his toys today - which he thought was delightful, as I sorted, he "played" and spread them further about. lol But he helped me move around the big tubs that I put them in. Got rid of the baby type toys while he wasn't looking...

other things we do are thread cotton reels, blocks, shape sorter, cups of tea, chasey, hide and seek, colouring in, playdough, paint with water...

Aston loves it when his big brother and sister come home from school. he will drag them around to play with him - mummy gets dissed! loves jumping on the trampoline with them, kicking the ball, racing his drive on cars around with his brother...