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I am a single mum with limited funds. Any games, craft work or educational information would be great. Also any stratigies on the concept of sharing and toilet training would be useful too.

Thank you to anyone who answers

2007-02-04 18:07:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting Toddler & Preschooler

8 answers

Do some sensory exploring with rice and measuring cups and spoons and bowls. Use food boxes as blocks. Search the internet for playdoh recipes and make your own. There are edible playdoh recipes out there. Cook with your kids. Make pudding, cakes, cookies, jello. Kids love to stir and will usually eat what they make. Art projects can be as simple as gluing pasta, rice, torn paper, pictures from magazines etc. Get cheap glue from the dollar store. Add food coloring and let the kids squeeze glue all over paper. When its dry they can trace over it with their fingers. This is a great way to introduce letters. Have a pots and pans band. Let them bang on the pans with wooden spoons. Get aspirin for mom. Please remember that 2 and 3 yrs. have short attention spans. Activities may only last 5 mins. Potty training needs to be routine and consistent. The suggestions already posted are all great.

2007-02-05 00:18:10 · answer #1 · answered by Static Energy 2 · 0 0

Well going back to the toys.... if one of them misbehaves then you can put them on the "naughty step" or in a "boring room" for the number of minutes they are years old (ie the 3 yr old must stay there for 3 minutes.) During this time you mustn't give them any attention and avoid eye contact! If they move from the place you put them, simply put them back and leave them again until the time is up. You should tell the child why they're being put there and if they do it again they will be put back. Don't use this the first time they do something wrong...give them a few warnings that they shouldn't have done what they did. Make sure to praise good behaviour as much as possible (don't over do it though :P ) Just remember children are always looking for attention so giving them your attention when they're behaving well teaches them this. If they're both behaving well try to share your attention between them as much as possible. Hope this helps!!

2016-05-24 14:41:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

well, as far as entertainment, anything that gets their imaginations going is a definite thumbs up... it could be as simple as going to the backyard with a "map" and having them find some long lost treasure (which doesn't have to be anything fancy... cardboard swords cut from old boxes, books, cheap costume jewelry [though that may be more interesting to a little girl than a little boy], so on...the treasure could even be imaginary, and therefore unique to each of them) also, books, books, BOOKS!! thrift stores are great for finding decent children's books in decent condition for low prices... and as far as potty training goes, I really can't help much, as I've not any children of my own to try to teach, but I can offer a few examples... When I was a wee boy, my parents bought me Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle underwear that had pizza slices and turtles on them... their bribe to get me to use the toilet? something along the lines of, "Don't get the pizza wet, because if you do, the turtles won't want to eat it and they'll go hungry." also, some family friends have a three-year-old daughter they are working on potty training, and I think, at least at first, their bribe was to let her wear her "big girl panties" during the day instead of diapers/pullups... now they've got a sticker chart, and everytime she pees in the potty she gets one sticker, and she gets two everytime she poos in the potty... once the first chunk is filled, i think the prize is a Disney movie (which is great motivation for her, she loves movies...) the next block gets her something else, and so on... hope some of this is useful...

2007-02-04 18:28:32 · answer #3 · answered by rottenchild90 2 · 0 0

imaginations are wonderful tools my children when they were that age my wife turned everything into a learning experiance when picking up that house they would pretend to be monkeys or tigers or hiking alot of imaginitive play is an important part of brain development too many kids these days are getting they imaginations turned off byu tv or video games another thing she would do was a shape of the day or a color of the day and the kids every time they seen that shape or color through out the day would get to make a collage or a picture of what they seen like a circle they found a ball so they would draw a ball or cut a picture out of a magazine and glue it to a piece of paper or draw it on our dry erase board. makeing muscal instruments was a favorite as well a drum out of an empty oat meal box a tamborine out of paper plates zoom.pbs.org has great ideas as well

2007-02-04 18:34:46 · answer #4 · answered by christopher b 1 · 0 0

links below are for toddler crafts and things to do with your kids there are many web sites you can go on to get ideas and fun things to do with your kids you can make sidewalk chalk at home and then take them outside and color the neighborhood try the links
with potty training you just have to take it one day at a time and do allot of talking to them if they are old enough to potty train then they will understand what your saying

2007-02-04 18:38:36 · answer #5 · answered by debrasearch 6 · 0 0

to potty train my friends little brother, we put froot loops in the toilet, and he used his pee like a gun to get inside the toilet. it worked great :] maybe reward them when they share, so they know its good? any made up game can keep kids busy for hours, i used to play with playdoh for hours! maybe just a few things of that, if your not worried about the mess. or maybe just something like boxes and blankets for forts hope i helped :]

2007-02-04 18:12:12 · answer #6 · answered by whyy_nottt 2 · 0 0

Bubbles, they are fun and cheap.

Nature walks with a theme such as how many bugs can you find, how many different leaves.

Art boxes covered with paper - any used paper, news paper, ... . Tear it up, rip it, glue it to a box. Make up different size boxes for recylcing, toys, stuff found on nature walks, ... .

2007-02-04 18:23:05 · answer #7 · answered by Sharon 3 · 0 0

Puzzles are cheap, take them for walks, explain and explore nature with them, build pillow forts, etc.

2007-02-04 18:11:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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