Being with a newborn as well as young kids
Sarah
I posted a while back looking for fun an exciting ideas for my 3 and 5 year old while heavily pregnant... Thanks for all the help, in return I thought I'd offer my new trump card to anyone else in a similar situation.
We now have 'The Challenge Box', which gives us many hours of excitement, I can be involved and engaged while fairly stationary and calm, it doesn't even make much mess! I sat down one night after they were in bed and made about 30 cards, each with a small task on it, like 'touch the floor of every room on the house with your elbow', 'count to ten in twos', 'think of three stripy animals' etc...
The rules are that you can skip or modify any challenge, play as a team or individually and stop whenever you've had enough. You just pull a card out of Thr box and do what it says.
I've had to make several extra sets of cards, I think we have 80 now, and it allows me to do housework/feed the baby/sit down while being actively involved in an exciting and active game. I had intended it for my kids only but their older cousins and even uncles are keen players too!
The only materials any challenge uses are pen and paper, and things readily found and put away.
So that's what we've been doing most of today! Lovely.
Sarah
We now have 'The Challenge Box', which gives us many hours of excitement, I can be involved and engaged while fairly stationary and calm, it doesn't even make much mess! I sat down one night after they were in bed and made about 30 cards, each with a small task on it, like 'touch the floor of every room on the house with your elbow', 'count to ten in twos', 'think of three stripy animals' etc...
The rules are that you can skip or modify any challenge, play as a team or individually and stop whenever you've had enough. You just pull a card out of Thr box and do what it says.
I've had to make several extra sets of cards, I think we have 80 now, and it allows me to do housework/feed the baby/sit down while being actively involved in an exciting and active game. I had intended it for my kids only but their older cousins and even uncles are keen players too!
The only materials any challenge uses are pen and paper, and things readily found and put away.
So that's what we've been doing most of today! Lovely.
Sarah
Kirstin Eventyr
Sarah, you could market that! What a great idea.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Sarah <yahoo@...> wrote:
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> I posted a while back looking for fun an exciting ideas for my 3 and 5 year
> old while heavily pregnant... Thanks for all the help, in return I thought
> I'd offer my new trump card to anyone else in a similar situation.
>
> We now have 'The Challenge Box', which gives us many hours of excitement, I
> can be involved and engaged while fairly stationary and calm, it doesn't
> even make much mess! I sat down one night after they were in bed and made
> about 30 cards, each with a small task on it, like 'touch the floor of every
> room on the house with your elbow', 'count to ten in twos', 'think of three
> stripy animals' etc...
>
> The rules are that you can skip or modify any challenge, play as a team or
> individually and stop whenever you've had enough. You just pull a card out
> of Thr box and do what it says.
>
> I've had to make several extra sets of cards, I think we have 80 now, and
> it allows me to do housework/feed the baby/sit down while being actively
> involved in an exciting and active game. I had intended it for my kids only
> but their older cousins and even uncles are keen players too!
>
> The only materials any challenge uses are pen and paper, and things readily
> found and put away.
>
> So that's what we've been doing most of today! Lovely.
>
> Sarah
>
>
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