Rainy days with young dc

[jammytoast2]

The forecast is pretty much torrential rain all day tomorrow and some of Saturday. I hate staying in all day with my 3 year old. She will play nicely with toys for a while but it does us both good to get out. I know people say just wrap up and put wellies on and go for a walk but it’s really not enjoyable.

Im thinking of dashing into the library then maybe going somewhere for a hot chocolate just to break the day up. Other than that we probably will cabin up and maybe bake some buns. What do you do with your dc when the weather is horrendous?

At that age, I just used to spend endless hours on the floor with my daughter playing with her toys, reading to her, and we used to draw together.

Shout against the wind? Alright, Pocahontas 🙄

My kid likes a good splash in the puddles with wellies too, but we all need indoor ideas as well. I’m on the west coast of Scotland by the sea and we get out in every scrap of acceptable weather we have, but you still need a lot of indoor ideas up your sleeve to survive the winter with young kids.

Big box, pack of pens/crayons, and a load of stickers. My son loves to decorate a box. There’s a brilliant set of safe cardboard cutting tools called Makedo that you can buy online for creating anything out of cardboard

Things I would go do:

Go to the zoo- (pets at home or similar) have a look at the animals.

Ikea- if there is one nearby, role play in the rooms.

Supermarket - do a treasure hunt, have a picture list with items for dinner/baking/lunch. Go looking for them, work on counting items, reading (look that says 'fruit' what fruit do we need, oh four apples, one, two etc)

After above get a drink in IKEA/Tesco/etc

Picnic in the sitting room, get them to help make lunch and then put a sheet down and invite the teddies to lunch. Could do a car picnic if you have one, drive to a view let and then them sit in front.

A short walk just to jump in puddles, followed by a longer bath, especially with bath paints, cups for pouring etc.

😂 at the pochantos comment