100 ways to entertain a child while the mother works

Every mother that needs to spend some time at the computer or doing something around the house, faces the problem of what to do to 15 minutes we sat quietly and gave her to work. And it is desirable to spend this time with benefits for their development, instead of sitting on the couch looking at the TV screen.

Of course, in the Arsenal of every mom there is a substantial stock of toys, puzzles, etc., but most often it happens that even the most wonderful children get bored of toys that they always play, and they want something new.





So we offer to your attention a collection of exciting activities that will help your child to spend time with benefit and get a little work and make their case.

Please note that offer classes, although do not require active actions of the adult, and suggest a largely independent game of the child and providing him with freedom of action, but require the mandatory presence of an adult nearby!

1. Drawing (the easiest way to inspire a child is to give him the album, pencils, markers or paint. For self-drawing very convenient to use a roll of old Wallpaper that provide little space for imagination.

2. Painting (prepare with your child a few pieces with interesting child pictures).

3. Finish/additional figure (in advance, prepare the workpiece, where the draw the top half of the picture, the child draws the bottom, the workpiece, which offer the child to add details, etc.).

4. Drawing with markers on the old disks.

5. Modeling of salt dough.

6. Modeling clay (use the materials at hand, so the little one could exercise your imagination – close-embossed buttons, the stem of a ballpoint pen, a comb, caps from markers, sacks, seeds, trees, etc.).

7. Various stencils (animals, insects, birds, toys, transport, letters, numbers, etc-so you can Also trace your pen, Cup, saucer and other items on a sheet of paper).

8. A variety of magnets (fridge decorate, draw flowers, attach pictures, walk around the apartment – check that is drawn, what is not, etc.).

9. The letters (cut out of colored cardboard letters, they draw the eyes, nose, mouth and give the child; you can also give your child magnetic letters and a magnetic Board, younger children are happy to build them into circles, flowers and Avenue figures, the older kids can pick the buzzwords, sort on consonants, vowels, etc.).

10. Old magazine and safety scissors (child looks for and cuts out from old magazines pictures on a specific theme – cars, people, fishes for aquarium, etc.).

11. Collage (give the kid a album, a brush, the glue, and it sticks out the images on a sheet of paper, creating a collage).

12. Hole punch (great if there are different forms) and a few sheets of paper. Obtained using hole-punch circles are fun to stick on any picture – it turns out the snow.

13. Double sided tape or any means available small size (can be glued to a sheet of paper, pieces of plastic tubes, various stones, shells, colored pictures can be pasted on the adhesive tape pieces of cotton wool or threads).

14. Puzzles (cut the card into several pieces, the child assembles the puzzle).





15. A notebook and several packs of stickers (or cut into pieces of adhesive paper).

16. Create your book (cut a few sheets of A4, cut in half, held together with a child with a stapler – get a makeshift book. Give the child crayons and the child creates the content for the book – draws pictures, letters, making labels, etc. in the Evening you can give this little book home from work dad).

17. Box with colored clothes pegs (they can cling to the edge of the bucket, to unhook and fold in any capacity; can be cut from cardboard sun and to offer the child to attach clothespins–rays, cut out the hedgehog and attach pins, needles, etc.; you can hang a makeshift clothesline and offer to hang linen – handkerchiefs or lokotochki).

18. Box with large buttons.

19. Box with large coins.

20. Box with colored paper clips.

21. Boxes with chestnuts, pine cones and decorative stones.

22. Box with colored laces.

23. Box with safe decorations (Slingo, brooches, pendants, etc.).

24. A box of old clocks.

25. Box with q-tips.

26. Box with holes with a dry cloth.

27. Match boxes with secure surprise in every (eraser, pencil sharpener, chestnuts, small cars, etc.).

28. Fastening/unfastening of buttons (you can offer a child to dress/undress favorite stuffed animal to the shirt with buttons).

29. The lace-up shoes.

30. Ribbon and any items that a child can on it strung (pasta, large buttons, etc. – have a beautiful necklace and pendant).

31. Magnet, coin and paper (please show the child the focus as moving a coin through the paper with a magnet).

32. Rubber bulb and cotton wool lumps (click on the pear and a jet of air blows away the lumps of cotton wool or a piece of paper from any surface).

33. Tennis ball and racket (tennis ball suspended on fishing line in a doorway and give the child a racket).

34. The pencil box (cardboard or plastic box, make a few round holes and give the child a box of pencils, pens or markers).

35. The sorter (in a cardboard or plastic box, make several holes of different shapes and provide all sorts of safe things that you can go to push – chestnuts, decorative pebbles, pebble, caps from markers, erasers, etc.).

36. Spindle for CD and a bunch of junk discs.

37. The hill (build a mound of Ironing Board or boards for the press. The child can slide himself, can roll cars or other vehicles, balls of different sizes and colors).

38. Bowling (put on the floor of skittles or plastic bottles or build a tower of cubes, and invite your child to knock them down balls and put again).

39. Mom's old purse or cosmetic bag with snaps and pockets. It is desirable that the pockets was something interesting (old business cards, discount cards, etc.).





40. Suitcase with snaps – also preferably with interesting content.

41. The old keyboard.

42. The old mouse.

43. Big calculator.

44. Removable padlock and key.

45. Hangers and clothes, which they hang.

46. Funnel and cereals or beans (for example, you can pour cereal in a bottle, lay fasolino track, etc.).

47. A bowl of semolina or flour and a sieve (to catch from the "sea" – monkey various "treasures" – pasta; on a pallet or in a dark dish with semolina very cool to draw with their fingers).

48. Pots and lids of different sizes, plastic containers, colander, skimmer, scapula and PR-t cooking utensils.

49. Different plastic cups of different colors and shapes that you can insert into each other to build towers.

50. Tray for eggs and pasta (child, "preparing lunch", lays on the plates and invites "guests"). Under the supervision of an adult "ingredients" can be any small items – decorative pebbles, mosaic, chestnuts, etc.

51. Foil for baking , and small items to wrap.

52. Thick skeins of thread, yarn (you can prepare a cardboard shape of a snake, caterpillar, fish, etc., to draw with a marker eyes and mouth, and offer the child to wind colored thread in form – be fun little creatures. You can just wrap a thick thread or thin rope on the reel).

53. Paper snowballs (put the bowl, with a rope draw the line, and offer the child to throw in a bowl of "snowballs" – balls or crumpled sheets of paper. Well, if you crumple the leaves, the child will also be himself).

54. "Junk" bucket (bucket size depends on the time that you want to release, and fills it beforehand interesting "junk" to have something to unwrap, to uncover, to get, to consider).

55. A pile of clothes or bed linen, where you can dig, play Ghost, etc.

56. Mountain socks (child looks for pairs, trying on different socks on different feet, etc.).

57. Pantyhose and balls or other small items that can be put in tights.

58. Paths and streams (ribbons, belts, straps, toilet paper, paper towels, etc-the t – jump, run, obbegat, etc.).

59. Islands (books with cardboard pages or stand under the hot – the child lays them on the floor, jumps over them, sit on them, animals, etc. Can draw legs, cut and copy – you will get funny marks.).

60. Mazes (made of rope or rubber bands stretched between chairs).

61. Balloons (you can kick the balls of the foot, to blow, to move, to throw balls in the ring, for example, to attach to the wall of gymnastic Hoop, etc.).

62. Build houses (cubes sofa, Ironing boards, chairs, sheets).

63. Train (a few chairs set with trailers, baby – in the locomotive, the wagons sit toys).

64. Tunnel to transport (collapsible Mat and rolling out a tunnel of cars, bus and other transport).

65. Theatre (get a set of mom's or dad's home or old clothes, hats, old sunglasses, scarves, etc., and the child is experimenting with images).

66. Animals (baby fasten tail of belt – playing cat, mouse, monkey, etc.).

67. Birthday (baby wearing party hats, beret festive noisemakers, balloons, seat guests, puts them plates, cups with straws, napkins etc.-t plays the birthday).

68. Hat, scarf, gloves (in winter).

69. Umbrellas or raincoats (played in fall).

70. Sunglasses, sun hat, hats, mats (played in summer).

71. Adult shoes (trying on mom's shoes, dad's shoes or boots older brother).

72. Flashlight (looking for objects, shows the road to travellers, playing detectives, etc.).

73. Children (unbreakable) mirror.

74. Magnifying glass (playing detectives or scientists).





75. Backpacks and useful content (rope, Hiking flask or thermos, map, old watches, etc.) – playing travelers.

76. Dressing/undressing soft toys (the kid takes his clothes to the different seasons, scarves, sunglasses, handbags, waistcoats, pins, and PR-t and collects pet for a walk. You can also give the baby a few diapers and offer yourself to put on toys–kids).

77. Old microphone – playing singer or singer.

78. Old camera (plays the photographer, the traveller or Explorer).

79. Spyglass (collapsible sheet of paper and sealed, so as not unfolded, playing captain).

80. Swing (tie the sling to the horizontal bar the Swedish wall, get a great swing for a child).

81. Hospital (give bandage, plastic bottles for medicines, the spoon is to watch the neck, etc. – the child–the doctor treats patients–small animals or dolls).

82. School or kindergarten (give the dolls to students "notebooks" are small leaves, the child – teacher/tutor – pointer, the child a lesson).

83. The shop (in different boxes, you can organize different stores – grocery, household, clothing store, etc., filled with goods of everyday, run of visitors – favorite home of the heroes).

84. Bus (from books, boxes or coasters under hot create a stop on the lid of the box carry passengers at each stop some passengers leave, others come).

85. The box (literally 2 minutes old box can be turned into dolls or animals, garage for cars, a crib for dolls or washing machine).

86. The wash load (before washing, do not hurry to load the Laundry in the washing machine – allow it to make a baby. Throw linen on the floor in front of the machine and leave it for a while, he will find something to do).

87. Wipe the dust (give the child a wet rag and a color display where you can manage your worker didn't wash your laptop, mobile phone or soft sofa).

88. My mirrors (and if the mother is still allowed to first spray the mirror with water, the delight of a child is not the limit! While toddlers can be very long to admire himself in the mirror, making different faces to show off a mustache or kefir to try on mother's hat).

89. Transfusion (use different sizes, colors and shapes of containers for transfusions).

90. Watering can (pour loofah – "flowerbed"; I machine – wash, etc.).

91. Fishing (with a slotted spoon catches fish out of the water. As a fish you can use any Economie items – balls, eggs, kinder surprises, etc.).

92. Blown in, blown out the water through straws.

93. Colorful balloons filled with water.

94. Painting in the bathtub with shaving cream.

95. Boats made of paper or walnut shell (show the child how to create wind, blowing on him, that boat sailed).

96. What sinks and what floats? (give the child heavy and light objects for the experiment, what subjects know how to swim, and what not).

97. Waterfall (the child passes water through a funnel and listens to the noise of the waterfall. You can also cut some holes in a plastic bottle or even pierce a polyethylene bag, and the noise of the waterfall will fascinate baby for 15-20 minutes).

 

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98. Wash (pour in a basin or the bath water, give the child handkerchiefs, a doll, or better his own clothes and offer "to wash").

99. Washing dishes (give the child adult unbreakable utensils – everything should be real! Safe Cutlery – spoons, skimmers, blades, etc.)

100. Games with foam (to add to the bucket of water some liquid soap and whip).published

 



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