Running out of ideas to do with my 3 years old son?

Question

I have two kids 3 years old and 1 year old. But i'm running out of ideas to do with them. I live in Canada so there's aloto f snow out side and it's really cold. We go out and make snow anges but we can only stay out for short periods at a time.
We play with playdo and dinosaurs and I try to play with his blocks but he really like it better when his father plays block with him. (He makes better cassel's).
What else can we do?

Something other than CARTOONS. We do a play group once a week but because of all the snow I can't leave my house. Even the buses are canceled.

Answer 1

Try not to do the same thing every day and pick his favourites. Like Monday/Wednesday is painting, do your own pictures and use straws, cut up rags or sponges for variation, get paint all over and then have a blast cleaning up as fast as you can before the bubble bath starts (they can bathe together for hours,attended of course)! I'm in Canada too and we invested in one of those little exercise trampolines...It's awesome! Keep it fun, scissors and glue are awesome for Tuesday/Thursdays. Don't forget about those huge coloring books they have at Wal-Mart then both your tykes can go hard. After lunch doing singing time or dancing time is fun (I'm a little teapot, Wheels on the Bus and Ring around the Rosey). My 3 year old will run the vacuum for a good half hour all over the living room or roll up her sleeves and do some dishes. Remember, these activities are just for fun and to act out things Mom does so do it for fun not chores. They're good at sorting socks and putting hangers in shirts too it's so cool that work for us is fun for them as long as we keep them feeling important!!! Good job and hope this helped!

Answer 2

My 4 year old son and I made up a game, I have a 19 month old also and one on the way in April.
He's got this chalk board easle we have set up in the living room, and everyday when the toys get their fill and I'm not in the mood to be hearing cartoons as I don't let them watch much, we play school.
He gets to learn how to spell works, he learns how to draw new things and after that he usually sits down with his magna doodle to repeat what we just did together. He draws people and tries to do other things. Makes up his own silly words that don't spell anything but he gets better at his letters and numbers.
It can be hard coming up with things to do with kids, day in day out it's not easy. So try and grab some crafts and put them in a box , pull it out when things get slow. For playdoh they have tons of new little toys to go along with it. Br. potato head always brings a laugh, and they have more additions also by playskool.
I took a small box once and taped it all together and cut a slice out of one side and a flap in the back to be a mailbox. My son put stickers on it, colored and marked it up and everyday I put something new in there. When he seems to be bored I ask if he ever checked his mail and we try and figure out what the word of the day is.
Mom have to be creative more for their own sanity than their kids of course. Keeping up with them isn't always easy and I say as long as you can make something interesting your kids would have a ball with it. I even make laundry with my son a game, he has to keep an eye out for the black socks I throw in with the whites before it goes int he basket and now my 19 month old does the same. Simple..getting a chore done and keeping them both from goign stir crazy when we can't make it to the park.

Good luck. Try to go to one of the websites they have tons of ideas for rainy/snowy everyday things. Like parents.com

Answer 3

Find a local play group at your rec center, try connecting with other moms in your area or hit the YMCA. Also McDonalds is a great activity. For the cost of an icecream or small fries, you can play all afternoon if you want, and you might meet some new friends.

Answer 4

Any kids in your area that you could invite over?
You could bake cookies, do a craft for Valentine's Day. Or you could work on a Father's Day gift, cover the kids hands and feet with paint and put them on a card or something.
Read a book, play some music, dance, sing some songs, watch a Baby Einstein video.
Build a fort with chairs and blankets.
Make play-dough, gloop or slime.

Answer 5

I live in WInnipeg so I totally know what you mean (it was -40 yesterday).

Put the one year old down for a nap and make peanut butter cookies together.

Get on the floor. Just get on the ground and have tickle fights.

Build a fort.

Colouring.

And of course, helping you clean. They still wanna help at that age.

Answer 6

Make a sheet tent and let him pretend to be camping or whatever he wants to play in there. Read books and act out the story. Color pictures. Finger paint. Make cookies.

Answer 7

that is known for a three year previous to be obdurate and attempt his limits. that is likewise known for him to have a short interest span, he's 3. i imagine that perhaps if he develop into at domicile together with his dad or mum and under no circumstances in daycare that is more convenient that you'll figure you newborn. do not position self assurance in a daycare worker to instruct your newborn. little ones will act out to get the interest they pick and his dad and mom are those that pick to grant it to him. P.S. taking section in is a robust ingredient for little ones and adults

Answer 8

Get them various costumes or make them, the key is playing a lot of pretend games. My grandson loves to play cowboy. That is one example. Let them take turns, one can be the cowboy and the other can be the pretend horsey. I think the pretend costumes would make it fun for them and realistic.

Answer 9

Listen to musical nursery rhymes and dance together...finger paint, learn abcs, numbers, do puzzles, color, memory match games, candy land, chutes and ladders, baking cookies, cakes or breads, pop popcorn, read, read, read, make tents out of blankets in the house, and crawl through them.

Answer 10

Go on the website FamilyFun.com They have tons of craft ideas and games for every age group.