Make a Quiet Time Box for your kids. I want to get some things done during Rider’s nap and I’m normally not able to (not very easily) with Pilot not napping also. So, for an hour I have Pilot do activities I put in a shoe box.
I have a large shoe box and covered it with construction paper (blue, green and red – for fun) and then I covered that with clear contact paper. On the top of the box I wrote “Quiet Time Box” and I placed some stickers on the top as well. (Trucks, concrete mixers and diggers – the cool stuff, right?) :)
Then, on the inside of the lid, I wrote out (on a small piece of paper) what I have in the box (for my own use). I also have a white twin size sheet folded in the box. I cover half of my dining room table with the sheet and he can do his quiet time box in the “cave”. He thinks its fun. Sometimes he prefers to do the box in the living room. Whatever works, as long as I’m able to get some paperwork done. :) He has a fun pillow he can rest against too (just for quiet time).
You can put whatever in that box that they would enjoy. Here is a list of what I have in the box:
- Sticker book: I cut come scrapbook pages in quarters and stapled them together. I added a small sheet of stickers he might want to put on the pages.
- Color pages: I have about 5 coloring pages with some crayons in the box for him. I put the crayons in a tea box. It keeps them on one place (for the most part).
- Books: Just a couple of fun books to look at.
- Puzzle: I have a simple puzzle in there.
- Notepad: There is a small notepad, maybe 3 x 5, with a truck pencil he can draw or color in.
- Cards: I have a small box of alphabet cards with animals on them. He can either match upper case letters with lower case letters, or match the big animal (Bear) with the baby animal, or if he’d rather, he can just look at all of the 26 different animals.
This might be too much for some kids. Mine doesn’t do everything in the box, but at least he has the option.
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