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bored kids
Iam 17 years old and i babysit my niece and my nephew every saturday from 3:00pm until 10:00pm and all we do is color and watch movies and iam pretty sure they get tired of it sometimes i read them stories but iam running out of ideas.cheyanne(girl is 5)kaligha is 3)and iam running out of activities for them to do please help me.
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Maybe give some free advice about: Babysitting?
If its nice outside, take them for a walk, play in the backyard, or go to a park if there is one close.
Kids like crafts. Instead of coloring, try getting some other crafts from off line.
If you babysit for them at their house, tell them to show you their favorite toy and ask them if they would like to play with it.
I babysit for a boy and girl the same ages, and most of the time we just go to their rooms and they play while I watch. I play if they ask me too, but most of the time they like to interact with each other.
Good luck!
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Board games
Take them to the park.
some braclet or windchime making set ChECK this SITE OUT for a dora the explore cheap set
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Cake making, find little groovy chick and barbie cake making stuff in sainsburys.
Take them to the libary, some local libaries have things on for kids!
Take them swimming!
Hope I helped
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Now i saw someone mention contests... that is about the worst things you can do. because anything compition really will hurt one of their self estemes and you want to avoid that as much as possible. you never what anything where you might have to choose. the only kind of compition that is good is like both of them against you where they can both win and feel good. and also prizes are bad because that is a form of a bribe and that makes them act a certain way just for the prize. you want them to do what you ask and be good out of their own wanting
What i would do is go to your local library. Most have teacher sections with books filled with preschool activities (which is what their age group is considered) Anywhere from games to crafts and much more. I teach preschool and what we have are book themes and base everything we do on that weeks books. Maybe what you can do is maybe have them eat when you get there and once they settle down get a book out of the library for the "theme" of that evening and base everything you do off of that
like say you are reading a doctor suess book. Maybe you can make like a color scavenger hunt and they can create their own fish out of construction paper and glue for example
the only hard part if finding activities because you have to get all 3 year old ones (because if you get older ones you might get something that the younger one can't do as well and make him feel bad) just the older one might get more
But they best thing is crafts. even if you go to a craft store or dollar store and rade the clearace for stickers paper paints anything
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You could try playdoug, arts and crafs(more for the 5 yr old), house...
hope this helps!
Mandy xox
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how about you have some contest kind of things but make it a tie all of the time. (give them prizes if you do that)a dance contest is fun for them or even tell stupid/funny stories that they would like. tell knock knock jokes too. i know it sounds stupid but they are just kids. make it fun for all of you. im going through it too.
~adriana♥
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Ask them what they want to do.
Go outside with them & play tag.
Help them make up an imaginary game or something.
Paint their fingernails & stuff like that, little kids always liked to be treated like they are older & stuff.
hope i helped =]
Jess
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