Sunday, May 11, 2008

Things to do w/children

So last night I realized that I wanted to re-create a list that I had made when I was in LA in December abt things to do w/children. I wanted a non-TV, non-computer informal list of things I can do with a child of varying ages. One of the main reasons for this list is that I will be able to come back to it when he is older (g-d willing) and reference and utilize some of these ideas. I hope to add to this list. I believe I did this once before but since its my blog- I'm gonna do it again! :D And of course if you have any suggestions feel free to tell me so!

A- arts n' crafts, acrobatics, airplanes, aviation, animals (zoos, owning/taking care of), automobiles, astronomy, astrology
B- baking, baseball, basketball, books (reading, creating, writing), building, bowling, boy scouts, bird watching
c- cooking, crafting, canoeing, clay, collecting, cartoons (reading, creating), camping (in or out), cleaning (daily, weekly, spring), chalk (drawing, using)
d- dinosaurs, dancing, drawing, decorations (creating for holiday), dolphins (swimming with and taking care of), dress up
e- eating, entertaining (friends, family, etc), farms (animals, visiting)
f- friends, finances (saving money/doing chores), football, firetrucks (play with), film/camera (creating, making, watching)
g- gardening, goals (soccer? personal? attaining those), geology, geography, golf
h- helping mom around the house (taking care of animals), hobbies, history (learning of), hockey, helicopters
i- ice cream (creating, making), instruments
j- jack n' the box, journalism (making a house newspaper/family newspaper, giving it out), judaism
k- karate, kickball
l- listening (music?), learning, lincoln logs, legos
m- museums, music (concerts, listening, creating, playing), marbles, mozart, monopoly
n-
o- octopus (visit Aquarium)
p- playing, photography, puzzles, pirates (treasure hunts, map readings), picnics, parks, planting, police (pretending, playing, learning)
q-
r- relaxing (beach?, travel?, other forms), records (music), reading, rafting, rollerskating, rollerblading
s- sports (soccer), singing, Sunday School, social skills (working on and improving), science, scrapbooking
t- travel, tubing, tennis, trucks, trivia games, trains (actual and toy), telephone (pretending with)
u-
v- violin, viola (music lessons?),
w- watching stars (buy a star?)
x-
y- yo-yos
z- zebra (animals? adopting one?), zoos

*this is all I can think of in the moment, but I will be back w/more. I just want to make sure life isn't boring. I don't want parenthood to be a struggle or something that is just existing, I want to create life, nurture it and watch it grow. :)

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