The way I work with my 15 mth old DD is that I take the day as it comes. I do some house work whilst she has independent playtime, and then at random points throughout the day, I will get down and help her build a tower with her blocks, or we'll play dolly's together or whatever.

But then I saw some show on Foxtel and a woman had a more structured approach where Wed arvo's was "Arts & Crafts" time and Fridays were "to the park" days!

How are most people filling their days?

The last 2 days I've tried doing set activities... yesterday I bought some crayons thinking we could try and learn how to do some drawings, but after all the colours getting at least two bites out of each of them, we put that away. Today I pulled out some paints and thought we'd do some hand and footprints for the Grandparents, but again, after eating some of the (non-toxic) paint, that got packed away within 5 minutes of starting!!

I rotate her toys every few weeks so she isn't playing with the same things all the time. Is that enough, or should I persist on being more creative with my playtime activities?!