How To Keep a Preschooler Busy for HOURS
// 1.29.09 // Filed under: Homeschooling, My Daughter, Parenting
My daughter has been busy, busy, busy for the past week or so with projects. I think she hears me discuss “projects” with her older brother and she wants a piece of the action.
I set her up with old magazines, scraps of paper, stickers, glue, paint, scissors and tape. She will spend hours cutting, painting and sticking. It’s great practice for her fine motor skills and she’s so pleased with her creations.
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My boys are 5 & 6 and love cutting pasting and glueing too. It keeps them occupied instead of running through the house jumping on furniture. This is a reminder to keep old magazines around so that they can find more things to cut out.
Have a great day and thanks for sharing this on Twitter.
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She is SO cute!! My question: how do you keep TWO preschoolers occupied for hours?
I’ve got two (17-months apart) and whenever I start “projects” they start whining and fighting and it always ends up taking more of my energy than just letting them run around the house willy-nilly.
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My kids did this one year to make birthday present wish list collages and mailed them to my mom. That was after I walked into the living room with fifty million little cut outs all over my floor!
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Yay! A crafty homeschooler, woo hoo!!! Welcome to the Momversation
Great idea!! I am going to have to do this for my toddler. He will love this. he loves to draw already.
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Well certainly this one will keep her busy and also sharp her talent as well. For my baby (3 Years old) I bought a square game recently and told him to create beautiful things.
Within two days he started to build some good looking home or some creation which we do not know what is that ? But yeah looking great.
So we know that he have creative mind and we will take a point of that whenever we want to put him in something similar to that.
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When I was kid my grandma showed me how and introduced me to collaging. I loved it, and still do it today in some forms. It is a very big part of me.
Great ideas to pass on!
We have a Montessori Cabinet filled with puzzles, blocks, craft stuff, etc. It is only for school time. I open it when the older kids get started. The one rule: One toy at a time. Also, I rotate the toys in it from our toy closet upstairs. Works well for about an hour. Then they go outside or into the basement to jump on a mini trampoline or spin in an unused computer chair.
I have 31 months old son. He is so naughty that he do not want to get into this stuff. Once I opened a rhyme CD in my desktop and thought he will be busy for few hours.
After 10 minutes I saw that all files are here and there and he was having great time with mouse and keyboard.
Do you have any advice for such energetic kid ?
I think I am lucky in this aspect. My four year old girl always put her things at such places where it should be. Like putting slipper at her slipper place.
After finishing lunch or dinner she carry her plates to sink. Thats really pleasure to watch her.