You dont really need to buy things for the under 3 crowd. I create active games/activities on a seconds notice just following their lead.

like today we played dump the cubes into the cup back and forth for almost 20 minutes, then we played empty the box of puppets,. fill the box, empty the box, fill the box. Another 20 minutes.

Then we took the hand puppets and we played with them for about another 20 minutes. We acted out their sounds, movements and learned to use our words to pass and share with our friends. We did this while the older kids were playing centers. We also used empty boxes to make sleds today. We are reading a book called Red Sled. The little kids really enjoyed sitting in them and getting pushed around the floor.

Yesterday the bigger kids painted them and made them all nice and fancy with glue and glitter.

We don't have any snow where I live, so we have to do a lot of pretending.

I don't buy many things for my under 3 crowd. when I do, they usually prefer to play with the boxes.

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