Top 3 Fun Activities to Do with Small Children

1. Play With Your Child

Yes, this is nothing new; we all play with our children as much as we can. They usually love it, but sometimes it seems like there is nothing new you can think of to keep them entertained. Well, here’s the trick – don’t give children all the toys they have.

Parents usually do this; they just spread all the toys and let the children pick ones they want to play with. The problem is that children get easily bored with their toys. The good thing is that they also forget easily. So, if you hide some of their toys you can have them as a backup when your children get bored with the toys they are already playing with.

It is also a great idea to actually buy new toys now and then, but if you can’t cover this financially, you can be clever and make the old toys be the new ones.

2. Read to Your Child

Reading could easily be the best thing to do with small children, because it occupies them on so many ways. They focus on you and what you’re saying, while at the same time they are learning something new.

You don’t even need to read children’s books. Anything you want to read will work just fine. Small children pretty much don’t understand what you’re saying and they are reacting to the tone of your voice, not the words coming from your mouth.

As long as you can act and pretend that you are reading the Grimm Brothers’ Fairytales, you can as well read to your child about all those new hairstyles that are “in” this spring.

3. Sing to Your Child

We all know that lullabies are the best way to calm the children down and help them fall asleep. What we don’t know is that singing doesn’t have to be only the tool for putting your child to bed and you don’t have to sing only lullabies. Children actually respond well to more vivid type of music. My friend’s son absolutely loves the Irish song called “Johnny I hardly knew you”, and the song is pretty much a march.

If your child is cranky and wants attention – sing something like “I’m so excited” by The Pointer Sisters, or “I need a Hero” by Bonnie Tyler, or any other song you can think of. And don’t worry if you really can’t sing, your children only want attention anyway and don’t care too much how they get it. As long as you’re looking at them while singing, or maybe even dancing. why not, they will feel like the center of your world. That alone is enough for them to switch from being cranky to being happy.