Do you find that your child seems bored with his toys or books? Sometimes, it seems like my son just looks through all of his toys and books trying to find one to play with but ends up just making a pile of toys and then whining to me out of boredom. He has so many toys and books, how could he be bored?!
I thought back to my preschool teacher days on how to solve this issue. One thing that I always did was rotate out the toys and books based on the weekly curriculum. We don't have very much storage in our current place so storing toys and books isn't really an option. In honor of Children's Book Week, I started by focusing on the books. Zel has a bookshelf in his room for board books and one shelf in our living room toy cabinet for larger paperback books. For our first weekly theme I chose animals. I found a metal bucket from a gift basket we received a few months ago. I went through Zel's books and selected the books about animals and put them in the book bucket. I also added books that we checked out from the library. I placed the bucket in an empty space and he immediately ran over and started reading. It was great to see him looking through books that he never reads and of course looking through old favorites as well. There is something that makes toys and books more exciting when they are rearranged or removed and replaced at a later date. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right?
Aunt Lori here... You are an excellent Mommy! Smart, fun, creative... and, you're teaching this old dog some new tricks along the way! Livie loves her butterflies! If she didn't have a huge cathedral ceiling in her room (at our house), I would have had her make a whole bunch and hung them from her ceiling, at different lengths. Today, we used the same idea to make a flower for Mommy for Mother's Day - with 3 green construction paper leaves (I - LOVE - YOU).
ReplyDeleteIs there a window in her room? You should try hanging them from strings of different lengths and tie them to the curtain rod or something like that. You'll have to post a picture of the flower. I'm sure Kristin will love that.
DeleteLove your blog! I used to rotate toys all the time, but I have gotten out of that habit. Now that my kids are older (6 and 4), I put something on the coffee table every morning for them to discover each morning.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great idea! Thanks for checking out my blog. I'm hoping to get some more time tonight to look at all the new blogs.
DeleteI love the corner you created for your son.Thanks for linking up to Book Sharing Monday.
ReplyDeleteThanks! It is fun picking out new books every week from our home collection and at the library.
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