Ideas for fun stuff to do with a toddler

I am trying to find some new things to do with Miki on the weekends.....any ideas?

Here is what we currently do

1. Go to the park
2. Fingerpaint / color
3. Read books
4. Listen to music and dance around the house

any other ideas?

Message edited 1/29/2009 1:12:49 PM.

Re: Ideas for fun stuff to do with a toddler

Bake cookies & decorate them

Play doh

Build with mega blocks

Dress up

Pretend play (DD plays with her food & shopping cart & we go "shopping" and then cook in her kitchen)

ETA: We also play silly games, like what animal makes that sound? She actually plays it. She'll "moo" and then ask me "what animal makes that sound" and when I say cow she says "very good". She'll go on for a dozen animals.

Puzzles

Counting

Message edited 1/29/2009 1:18:19 PM.

Re: Ideas for fun stuff to do with a toddler

We took DS to Petsmart the other day. He saw cats, the doogie daycare, fish, birds etc. It was like a free zoo as far as he was concerned.

Musuems as well

ETA I used to Irish Step Dance and DS can't get enough of it He laughs and sort of stamps along. Cutest thing ever!

Message edited 1/29/2009 1:29:22 PM.

Re: Ideas for fun stuff to do with a toddler

We baked and decorated cookies yesterday -- well i baked them when DS was sleeping and then when he woke up we decorated them. We made snowmen. I rolled them out and used a cookie cutter and afterwards my friend told me that she used the rolled sugar cookie dough and and just overlaped 3 cookies and baked them like that.

Re: Ideas for fun stuff to do with a toddler

Don't you have a Science museum in Charlotte? I remember one from way back. She may be into that.

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Re: Ideas for fun stuff to do with a toddler

My DS got the game Hulla-Balloo for Christmas and he absolutely loves it ! Super cute game and educational too !...I was just going to post a rave about it

Re: Ideas for fun stuff to do with a toddler

I am spending most of saturday at my favorite church park

we cook a lot together

he makes me macaroni necklaces

one of these weekends I am driving back up to salisbury to go to train museum again, its a cheap day and we loved it.

the trip down to columbia is sooooo worth it. EDventure is down there. Its the best children's museum.

Since my kid doesn't nap, we make a columbia day out of it and go to the zoo also. LOVE their zoo. not a lot of walking at all. We love feeding the giraffes.

For 5.00 we have a great time at Chuck E Cheese...just go right when they open.

I found a saturday morning soccer program that starts at 18 mos old.

PLAZA FIESTA!!! for 2.00, its the most fun ever!!! Best food court around.

Yesterday I found a playhouse/swingset company that allows open play on their floor models for free. Its was fantastic.