Friday, November 10, 2006

How to entertain a child

-Spend countless hours making funny noises with your mouth.
-Hang child upside down by her feet and swing her back and forth.
-Get on all fours and chase child around the house making growling noises and saying, "I'm going to catch you!"
-Take her for a walk outside with the dogs.
-Put child on your shoulders and walk around the house.
-Squeak lots of dog toys any chance you get.
-Pick up child and show her random things around the house like the pumpkins on the mantle.
-Let her play with mom's old cell phone.
-Make beeping noises with your mouth while she plays with the phone.
-Blocks.
-Pull out every single stuffed animal she has and come up with name for them.
-Read "Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can you?" over and over and over again.
-Feed her grapes. Feed her cheese. Feed her prunes.
-Let her play with above food throwing it as far as she can.
-Play Baby Einstein video on the television while you hold her in your lap explaining to her exactly what she is seeing.
-Dance with her to any music you can find.
-Sing Itsy Bitsy Spider 10 times in a row.
-Tickle her belly while she laughs uncontrollably.
-Take her to see mom who is resting in bed.
-Let her play with pots and pans.
-Make a top out of the salad spinner.
-Add items such as a hairclip and a pacifier with flashing lights to the salad spinner.
-Let her play with the bowl.
-Give her a bath.
-Read to her again.
-Give her a bottle and rock her to sleep.

REPEAT TOMORROW.




1 comment:

Hen Jen said...

My kids love Mr. Brown...I can say it by heart. They all learned to whisper because of that book. Very much a favorite in our house, the book eventually fell apart.
Another favorite was Good night moon. I read that one at bedtime everynight. Every-night. I find myself reciting it in my head sometimes as I am falling asleep.

liked your post,
Jenny in Ca