While screwing around trying to avoid real work, I stumbled upon this great post on Unclutterer.com. I was instantly reminded of the everyday stuff that our kids like to play with. I just love it when somebody makes me realize stuff I already know. It’s SO much easier than actually learning something new.
{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }
THANK YOU!
I had never heard of unclutterer.com before and I love it! I am an organization junkie and a perpetual thrower-outer. I don’t like to hang onto things unless I have to have them because clutter makes me mental, which is why I’m cursing my husband who just brought home a ton of computers from an electronic auction.
I have to admit, I love the internet too!
Measuring spoons are my 5 month old’s favourite thing right now. He watches mesmerised as he passes them hand to hand and twists them to different angles. He loves the way they clatter. He teethes on them and explores them with his tongue. I like them because he’s so chuffed, plus they’re small and light enough to take out with us, washable and it doesn’t hurt him when he hits himself in the face with them.
Paper bags, keys, waterbottle and my toes are also big at our house at the moment. Well, he would also choose plastic bags, cables and eating my hair, but these are less popular with me.
thanks to the post - try to visit you again
These are great idea my children range from 34 to 21 and this is how you would enteraint your children back then and even when I was a child. Thanks for bring back the child imagination.
Being a foster mother with small children in therapy, I discovered the joy of mats. The therapist used “real mats” from a special catalog. These looked like placemats for the table yet gripped the floor well. I made some out of the liner we used in our RV to keep things from sliding around. (sold near shelf paper in places like Walmart) I cut ours into different shapes and used several colors. The kids place them on the floor in different patterns and use different hopping methods. They are great for indoor hopscotch as well. It is great for large muscle control, balance and imagination. They also store easily. Great for energy burning on rainy days. Another activity, is to take larger books( from the encyclopedias we no longer need) and have the kids move them to a seperate room. They cane build with them like blocks or cards. Using the large muscles is calming and again builds imagination as well.
Mema
One of the things I did when my son was a baby, was take a photograph of him or anything else and put it under on the higher drawers in the kitchen. I would then lie him on the floor in the kitchen (on his favorite blanket), pull out the drawer with the picture under it and he would be entertained long enough for me to cook. I had a couple of pictures on a couple of drawers and could rotate as he got fed up!
A real cell phone for a baby toy!? Buttons can come off and choke your baby. The battery can leak acids and chemicals if abused long enough. The display is made of glass, bite it hard enough or drop it and your baby will be eating glass. I can go on but you just think about it for awhile.