Your 2 year old...what do you DO with them?
baybee07
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What do you DO with your 2 year old??I'm in a rut and need inspiration! I have a 2 year old (27 months) and a 3 month old. As we are finally settling back into normalcy since having the baby..I feel like I do NOTHING with my toddler. He has every toy imaginable to play with, but we are bored. He wants and needs me to play with him (though he is excellent on his own) I have no idea what to do with him. He is still not into reading as much as I would like him to be, but we still do it 15 minutes each day. We do playdough, play outside (which is typically going for walks, or pushing his playmower.) He seems so unmotivated to try new things...(and yes, i understand that repetitive play is a way of learning) but i want to interact more. Any ideas of things to do? Looking for both inside and outside play. Thanks! |
Re: Your 2 year old...what do you DO with them?
We have a water table. I got sponge letters and shapes that she plays with a lot - scooping them as she names the letter/shape, squeezing them, etc. I also freeze plastic toys or marbles into ice cube trays or big bans and she uses the water to melt them and rescue the toys.
Bubbles, shaving cream, "gak" and "ooblek" - you can Google the recipes, watering plants, picking weeds, sidewalk chalk, painting the walls with water, cleaning her outside toys with a bucket of soapy water, sweeping.
Inside we do lots of projects with paint, glue and coloring. DD uses her play kitchen constantly - I ask her to make me things in it. We also have a bunch of toys, so I try to set out a toy in the morning that she hasn't played with in a while. She really likes singing/dancing lately, so we listen to lots of music and play tunes on her xylophone.
We do a lot of reading first thing in the morning when she's still waking up - she's calm enough to pay attention.
bake something together. my 2 yr old likes doing this. i keep it very simple - mixes or jello pudding into the small graham cracker crust cups - then we all have dessert together after dinner.
she also "sets" the table - i use paper goods for those days. I give her the items one at a time and she places them out. you can "set" the table inthe afternoon, in preparing for dinner. this takes time.
we color a lot too. i've done a few little decoupage projects with her - she rips the paper, and uses a foam brush to put down the glue medium and then sticks the paper down. she lasts maybe 20 minutes doing this stuff, but it's enough.
we look through family photo albums and point out the people we know.