What to do with your little ones between 3 and 5 PM

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Permalink Reply by Erica Gold on March 30, 2010 at 3:25pm

Getting ready to check out your blog now . . .as a mom to 3 little boys those hours are definitely a struggle. :)

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Permalink Reply by Erin Boudreau on April 2, 2010 at 11:17am

I usually tell mine that I have to start making dinner (or do something else, like a chore) and I give her some choices: she can watch a dvd, work at the kitchen table on a craft project (or just color) or read some books at the kitchen table. She usually chooses a craft (she's really into making collages now from old magazines--each one has a theme, like a fruit collage, vegetable collage, etc.) She seems to like when I give her a few options and she can choose what she wants to do. If I'm just doing chores, I try to involve her (like folding laundry, or sweeping, etc.) She loves to help!

Erin
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Permalink Reply by Show Me MaMa on April 4, 2010 at 2:12am

Well, I am also at home with my little one and around 3 PM, i will take her to the park for an hour or so and when we come back, I give her a snack and a book to either color or work on another educational assigment. Take a peek at my blog so, you can have an idea how i keep her busy. Hope that helps you out a little.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Tankersley on April 9, 2010 at 10:34pm

We have tea. I started when my children were 5 (just started kindergarten), 3.5, and 18 months. I wanted a way I could connect myself and my children after a school day. My daughter would get home from the bus at 4, then I would come straight home and put the tea kettle on. The kids sit at the counter and talk to me about school while I start tea and dinner prep. Now my children are 8.5, 7, and 5 and we still have tea everyday (most weekends as well, when we are around). We all love it - even my boy. Of course, we always have a couple of those crispy, thin, dunkable tea cookies with our tea :-)

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Permalink Reply by Heidi Ramsey on April 12, 2010 at 3:44pm

We play games and clean up the house before daddy gets home. I can do most of the things I need to do with him "helping".

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Permalink Reply by Holly Skelton on April 13, 2010 at 12:39pm

What a special idea! Mine are only 4 and 1, so not sure if they would like tea quite yet. But definitely a 'tea' party of some sort. Definitely fun!

Holly
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Permalink Reply by Tesa Nicolanti on April 13, 2010 at 2:23pm

We take really late naps around here so that is naptime for us. My two are 3 and 4 now and usually one or the other will have preschool in the morning and than we head to the gym or run errands for an hour or so after school, have lunch and then they nap.

I absolutely love the tea idea and really hope I remember it once my daughter starts elementary school, I think she would love it.

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