Child enrichment (cheap and easy preferred)

I somehow remember all the words to his songs when I found them on Spotify not long ago, I’m so excited to introduce them to my bubba when she’s a little older. How fun that Duckling enjoys them too!

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Used cheap command clips to make an art wall for Meowlet. We will curate it together and mail the excess to various friends and relatives. This is also an enriching activity and makes the post office a field trip? Fingers crossed.

Also now we have something to do with every scrap and doodle the daycare sends back hahaha.

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This wasn’t a planned one, but my child is currently finding individual dog hairs from my husbands shirt and the nugget couch and running them to the living room to give them back to the dog.

I’ve peaked as a parent.

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I’m willing to spend money, like even a daily subscription fee. But can we get an enriching video of everyone in paw patrol going to bed and staying there for 12 hours?

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So, it ignore the weather board, that’s a pricey lovevery thing. But the command hooks are cheap and easy…I’ve been trying to figure out a way to increase his independence on the clothing front. I didn’t want to make the entire closet accessible or spend money on new furniture, so this is the solution I came up with. So far the choosing of outfits works out well. We added the weather board to start preparing for the day ahead in the evening. Tbd.

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By “command hooks” do you mean the wooden ones? They are so much fancier than the plastic ones I’ve stuck to our walls!

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Yup these guys are stick ons

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Wow I wish we had ones that nice here!

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That looks really nice, I like the little weatherboard idea, saving that one for the future :slight_smile:

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These are from Amazon! I think they are a Chinese brand…maybe available to u?

I think I’m going to move it to the front door and use some velcro command strips. The weather related stuff is more relevant for outdoor I think!

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I got over an hour of independent quiet play for my 4-year old with Perler beads yesterday.

And about 30 minutes of guided fine motor skill + color fun and counting for my 2-year old (he handed me the number of beads in the color I asked for, and I made the design, they were a bit too fiddly for him to place more than just a few of them on the board.)

The kits I got (just enough to make one thing) were 99 cents at Michaels, but I am buying more for sure.
You coud get lots of reuse if you don’t iron them, but we ironed them to make christmas ornaments

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Cute! I command hook’d a coats and bag hang up spot by the front door, but hadn’t thought about a clothes spot. Taking notes for the future!

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1 or more toilet paper rolls. They’re currently occupying my chaos agent so I can use the toilet (with door open so I can see her) without her crawling off to hurt herself.

I throw another for her whenever she gets bored and she’s suddenly distracted by them again.

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I have it on good authority (@Elle, @Smacky) that I have enriched my child by forgetting to wash his hands after the park where we had done a lot of playing in the dirt. He is eating dirt and apples and chicken nuggets now.

Whee

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Excellent for the immune system. Not sarcasm. I purposefully do stuff like this when it’s good nature soil.

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Not sure urban parks count as good nature soil HAHA. But I will hold this to my heart to sooth my germophobe inner self.

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Haha this is always my dilemma as well

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SAME! So many perils in the urban park! When I see glass bottles (almost always Modelo) I try to bring them home to recycle before they get smashed and become many tiny pieces of glass. Of course, then I look like I am walking through the park casually holding a beer bottle…

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Hahahaha it’s ok, white ladies in parks are apex. Use the Karen for good and don’t let anyone push you around.

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Fair, but when I start showing maybe I should have my husband carry them :laughing:

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