Any new ideas to entertain LO's during the day?

Re: Any new ideas to entertain LO's during the day?

• 2chatter member

  January 2013

  Not free, but DS loves coffee shops.  He will happily sit in a high chair for 30 minutes to an hour - a couple toys attached to the toy bungees of his seat and a supply of snacky stuff for him...and I can borrow the wifi and work and he "plays".  He just likes watching people.  Weird though, because the same is NOT true in restaurants (too much activity?).

  Finger painting

  I wish I had time to make some fun sensory bins (I saw one with the giant pasta shells and think DS would looove it) or time to play with sensory bins with him during the week

  Some sort of small climbing strucure?  I have a fisher price thing from when DD was little that is much shorter than DS to give you an idea of size....it has a mini slide (it's the same length as DS and about 3 inches off the floor), an inflated ball and two arches...he will play with/on/around that for hours.

  

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• n8swife member

  January 2013

  Asher loves the triangular crayons from Crayola. They are washable. I usually put him in his highchair with some paper and let him go to town. If he gets it on the tray, it wipes right off. That keeps him occupied for a long time.

  Also, this morning, he played with a laundry basket for like 30 minutes! He just kept putting toys in it and taking them out and pushing the basket around.

  He's pretty much into anything besides his toys!

  

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• boilerup227

  January 2013

  23 colors of finger paint in a plastic Baggie taped shut at the top. Loves it.

  

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• suitern member

  January 2013

  boilerup227:

  23 colors of finger paint in a plastic Baggie taped shut at the top. Loves it.

  This sounds interesting! Great ideas so far.  Keep them coming
  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  

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• HappyToBe2012 member

  January 2013

  Abby will "sort" laundry if I put a pile of clean stuff on the floor. She'll move it back and forth from pile to pile for a good 30 minutes.

  

  
  

  

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• avalovesart member

  January 2013

  Bread. My LO loves bread and will eat little chunks handed to her for about 15-20 minutes, perfectly entertained. Also any magazine that she can tear up or some "hidden" in a ziplock bag. She figures out how to open it and eventually gets the item out!
  

  
  
  
  

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