Monday, January 22, 2018

Entertaining Toddlers while dealing with academics

While this year things are easier than in the past, the twins still require a lot of attention while I am helping kids with readings and math and whatnot.

I have a box by the desk with various toys in it, and I attempt to pull them out one at a time to hopefully distract the twins.  Most of the time they are not troublesome, just loud, messy and taking attention.

So far we have:

  • Glass beads to count, sort, make patterns of and enjoy the sound in a tin can.
  • Molecule set, while they have no interest in learning names of atoms, or how they fit together to make any particular molecule, it ends up being a nice building toy, or sorting toy.
  • Magnets and various metal
  • a set of Beat Bugs matching cards (maybe some matching as E calls it)
  • Playdough (a LOT of playdough!)
  • book of coins and lots of coins

I also have for them special markers, crayons, notebooks and paper.

Sometimes I do a simple craft, like cutting, or filling rice socks.

Most days though they disappear on us and later we find their room in chaos, or worse some other room!  Having twins is both easier in some ways and way harder in others, they entertain each other, and get into everything!


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