Tiny Tots

Tiny Tots

Traveling Entertainment Kit for Tots

Here's a big mom tip coming at you: go buy several tall plastic storage containers. They'll make your life easier.

Skeptical? Don't be. I should know, I have 5 kids. Because of the differences in their ages, there's always several of them on the sidelines while one or more is playing some sport of the season. If you don't want to keep your kid preoccupied with the concession stand (spending your money and rotting his teeth), then heed my advice and get those plastic storage containers. Here's why.

They make the most perfect traveling entertainment kit. No, I'm not talking about DSi. If your kids are already entrenched in personal entertainment devices, it's unlikely that you can tear them away for something as mundane as books. But please try.

For those who haven't yet succumbed to the sirens song of the digital device, the plastic storage containers will be a great way to create mobile entertainment kits. Think for a minute - what if you always had a "go to" trick up your sleeve? When the kids get restless while at a performance or awaiting brother's turn at bat, don't you wish you had something more than a dollar and a fresh bag of Skittles? You have to pay for those teeth, you know.

Pack each of the plastic storage containers with small treats. Nothing expensive, just a mixture of little trinkets or odd bits of toys the kids haven't seen in awhile. I drop a couple of Hotwheels cars into each container along with a tiny rubber ball, a couple of crayons and a miniature notebook. On the issue of snacks as entertainment, I'll concede to a package of fruit snacks or maybe a granola bar.

Leave one of the plastic storage containers in each of your vehicles, and pack one in your briefcase. Try to keep one in your purse or bat bag as well. You'll be glad you did!

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craft work for tiny tots out of waste things in th kindergarten school?

i am a kinergarten teacher i wish to make some craft items for my pupils form waste things for our exibition for the age group of 3years to 4years

Get 2 tin pie plates, fill with assorted junk (old bottle caps, popcorn kernels, pop can tabs, you-name-it) and staple the 2 plates together leaving a hollow centre... wonderful noisemakers. Decorate them with pictures from magazines, pictures cut from used greeting cards, used gift wrap...

Cut strips from papers, magazines, gift wrap & weave them into colourful place mats or coasters. Or cut same items into squares, paste them mosaic style onto a flower pot, or jam jar (to make a vase)...

Cut discarded clothing into pieces & paste onto a rock or brick to make bookends. Or cut into strips & weave into coasters as above.

Use a large plastic beverage bottle to make a terrarium. Fill 1/4 way with soil which has a few bean or flower seeds mixed in, add water & grow.

I could go on forever...

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