What kind of activities do 3 year old boys enjoy doing?

Question

Should I take him to a park? Play games with him? I have no clue what to do.

Answer 1

Build a "choo choo" train out of the kitchen chairs. Take an imaginary trip, he is the engineer. At your train stops go explore the area. Maybe you have stopped at the jungle and you have to find a monkey. Follow it up with a book about trains. The important thing here is that the boy is not playing alone he is interacting with you and polishing up his verbal skills.

Answer 2

1) Depends on the child, but if you keep the topics moving, give fiddly children something to hold, have visual aids and keep everything in bite sized chunks you can keep a five year old sat for about fifteen-twenty minutes, and an 8 year old sat for around half an hour to forty five minutes. 2) Anything musical/colouring/building and sporty (not team sports though!) Just make sure you ensure that there is maximum participation for a maximum amount of time (so everyone can take part for the entire length of the activity) 3) 5-8 enjoy learning about interesting animals, but remember they will be going to school so don't have to much intense learning going on. 4) Trips to the local zoo, park, an interesting (and kid friendly) museum or the movies/theatre (kid related material) 5) They probably would, but I would NOT recommend taking a group of 5-8 year olds camping. They'll all be excited and hyper at the start. They each have their different bed time routines, and you (and the brave souls helping you) would be awake all night dealing with issues such as (Mary's kicking me!', 'I want to go home!', 'I miss my mommy!', 'I can't sleep', 'I always have hot milk before I go to bed', 'Daddy always sings 'Puff the Magic Dragon' to be before I go to sleep'.) 6) Behaviour depends on the kid, their parents - you can get some kids who are Absolute gems - will do as they're asked, when they're asked and others that don't do as asked and do their own thing. Kids who have siblings tend to be more likely to be better at sharing then kids who don't and are slightly 'tougher' when it comes to biting and pinching but that's not an exact science in itself. 7) Have a sticker chart system - kids earn stickers by being good/and helping out around the play area. Once they have completed a sticker chart (10 stickers = a completed chart) they can choose a prize from the prize bucket (contains rubbers/pencils/rulers other school equipment). Stickers aren't awarded until the end of the session. Consequences = a time out (a minute for each year of the child's age ((a helper can help enforce this) and a loss of a sticker. If the child has no stickers to loose, then they get a black mark that has to be covered by a white sticker before any other stickers can be rewarded)

Answer 3

In my experience most little boys love physical activities. Like running, jumping, swinging climbing, So the park would be a really good choice. Also cars and trucks, super hero stuff. likely he'll want you to play with him. Good Luck

Answer 4

3 yr old have TONS of energy! Do some outdoors activities then when hes all tired out, bring him back in for some coloring or finger painting. My son really enjoys helping me outside in our garden, getting dirty is always fun.

Answer 5

I got to tell you this, a good investment would be to buy
him a Thomas the Train toy, the wood ones.
I got my son a set when he was 3, know he is 6
and still plays with them for hours.
These toys will last a life time.

Answer 6

Running, jumping, splashing around in water, games with toy cars - endless possibilities. Take him to the park of course, let him play with other children - my goodness, I wish my son was 3 years old again - the best of times

Answer 7

I recommended you take him to the park and play tag or something little kids love combative games a specially if you are it and if he is it make your self easy to catch and give him cars to play with in the sand and I hope I was of help

Answer 8

my 3 year old loves doing cut n paste and painting even getting into coloring books. when his not doing that he loves riding his bike and playing cars and even playing xboxs games

Answer 9

i have a 3yr. old nephew....he loves going to the park and playing any kind of game... he likes to read the "thomas the train" books, likes Diego (from dora the explorer), play with cars that my dad had when he was younger. my nephew also likes to dance and sing!

Answer 10

Physical activities are best, since they are loaded with energy!