I always need to put myself in check when it comes to spending quality time with my kids. Sure I can take care of them, feed them meals and make sure their needs are met, but they are happiest when I give quality time to each one. It's hard to just sit down with each one and play. There is always so much to be done.
My friend Veronica and I were talking the other day and I told her I would email her some ideas of what activities to do with kids. I found a few things, but this morning I wrote down some things that I do with my kids. Just simple things. Here they are:
Play dough, paint a printed off picture from the internet with water color paints, play school (we do the pledge, weather, calendar,reading, alphabet song, etc.), read books, play with guys (little plastic toys), draw with the dry erase markers on the white board, watch educational movies (like sesame street & blues clues, you can find cheap $1 movies at the D.I.), put corn meal on a cookie sheet and run toy cars through it or use utensils or your finger to make designs, build a fort with blankets and furniture, make necklaces out of cereal & yarn, Dance to children songs on CD, play educational computer games like PBSkids, play with plastic cups(we reuse our yogurt cups)stack and knock down or can do bowling with a ball and the cups, play pass with the ball (sit on the floor open your legs to the splits and pass), play dress ups (I bought all kinds of hats and stuff at the D.I.).
Those are just a few things we do. Hope this helps.
