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babysitting
My mom is having surgery tomorrow and she will be recovering all week so I will be the one to take care of them all week while she is recovering my niece is 14 and my nephew is 12 and I wanted ideas for activities for the week to do with them and meal ideas
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Movies are always a good idea. Tell them to both pick their favorite movie. If that gets boring, baking treats is always fun! A little messy but shouldn't be hard to manage considering their ages. As far as food try something easy like pizza or make your own sub sandwiches! Hoped that I could help thanks!
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You can ask them what their favorite meals are. Here's a fun one. Buy ready made pizza dough, often found in section with rolls, get already shredded pizza cheese and pizza sauce in a jar and each can vote for ingrediants they love, like pepperoni, or onion, green pepper, olives, etc... Use a 13 x 9 baking sheet. The pizza need not be round.; At 14 the niece is old enough to at least help you. I ran the house and cooked all meals while my mom made a week trip to go visit her ailing mother who died and it turned into 2 weeks at 14 1/2 that I cooked all the meals. Its really not all that hard. Even cheese and mac is easy, just toss in extra ingrediants if you want like tuna and pea, or heck, canned chicken. My guess is just the 4 of you unless there is a Dad, then 5. Take into account how much a grown man and a growing boy eat serving wise for these meals so you make enough. Quiche sounds hard but is no harder than making your own pizza. You can buy ready made crust at the grocery, just ask where they have it, use pie plates. Buy some cream or half and half alto I have used just milk before. Scramble 6 eggs and use about 1/4 or 1/3 cup of the liquid, cheese of any sort, chedder, or swiss or a mix already shredded, but you can add small slices. Just fill the crust filled pan with ingrediants the family loves, I used small bits of brocolli and zuchinni for veggies and other stuff. Season with salt and pepper or add some onion powder. Pour the beaten egg, cream in last and then bake until done. You can find other recipes ideas on line at Allrecipes.com
As for activities, during a normal week, is mom daily comming up with activity ideas for all of you? That sounds more like entertainment needs for grade school kids during a school break like summer where after the 1st week they get bored and need ideas of what to do. What do they normally like to do? Let them know that they need to help pitch in to keep things clean, the cook doesnt clean up after, they need to and yes, they're old enough. If 10 yr olds can do it, so can they. Some books recommend even younger kids to pitch in with such chores. You don't want the house looking like a bomb went off so Mom instead of resting is tempted to get up and clean herself. I dont like chores and you guys probably dont either, so try and make it fun. I found I enjoyed singing while washing dishes. I think it could be taken further. How about getting all your laundry washed, setting it on a pile on the bed after drying and then each of you try to dance along to some favorite music while folding your own clothes. It wont be as easy and may take longer but it sure as heck will look funny and make you all laugh. If you have a library card, go see what scary DVD movies they might have for the Halloween season and make or buy some popcorn to watch together or make some decorations of your own to add to the house for Halloween or Fall themed decorating. THere are many good ideas on line. DIY projects. I have tried a few and will post links to a few favorites.
Maple leaf Roses maybe nephew would be willing to collect a bag full of the best colored leaves.
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Paper Pumpkin decor.
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I would suggest joining pinterest... you can search for activities and easy meal ideas on there... since you're babysitting older kids it doesn't take as much to keep them busy and out of trouble. Don't underestimate the small things you can do... watch their favorite movies, bake cookies or a cake (let them decorate it), build blanket forts, really there is a lot of stuff you can do and you can also ask for their input to make sure everyone enjoys the activities... Meals don't have to be Something worth stressing over either, pizza could be an option one night (if you do a movie night have popcorn and candy—instantly best babysitter ever!) They're are a lot of boxed meals too that just require tasks as simple as boiling water and adding a few ingredients... Hope this helped and you should still check pinterest... it'll really help give you ideas.
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