Entertaining a 10 month old at home...ideas please

[Cbell]

I am quite good at keeping me and my DD busy and entertained. I try and plan one constructive thing a day, like a baby class or visit to the park.

However I am struggling to find things to do in the home. Our house is small and she only has free roaming space in the front room. We have lots of toys (that I try to rotate), music and books but I do feel she gets bored...I certainly do.

I'd love some ideas about fun things to do in the home....please....

DD (also 10 months) has her own cupboard in the kitchen (all the others are locked ) it is full of plastic cutlery, cups and plates and she spends ages taking everything out and putting it back. Saucepans also go down well.

We quite like messy play and water play, a fave at the moment (although very messy) is putting flour on the tiled floor and making patterns. I also kept her baby bath so we fill that up with water for her to splash in.

Fingers puppets

climbing pillows

Make a den with blankets

I am sure I will tink of more (probably in the middle of the night)

If you become a member of Pinterest and search for toddler crafts there are tonns of ideas that will be suitable.

So far from that site I've made:
Rainbow rice. Brought cheap rice frommorrisson filled a tupperware box, added a tablespoon of food colouring and one of hand sanitiser (the alcohol init sets the colour), put the lid on and shook the box. Emptied contents on to large choping board to try. I made 6 different colours, put them in a large (long but shallow, under bed type) toy box with some kitchen utensils etc, some happy land figures. DD loved it. Its all mixed up now but keeping it in tupperware boxes to bring out again, also good for making pictures or making shakers in old water bottles.

Clean mud: grated 3 bars of soap, DD unraveled a toilet roll put in a big bowl and added some warm water. (Warning messy best done in garden)

A colinder and pipe cleaners DD loves to try and fit them in the holes.

My DD is 2 so a little older but the sensor activities will still be good for your DC.

if you look at the babycentre web site they have games for every age

www.babycentre.co.uk/baby/development/letsplay/?intcmp=tnav_baby_play

Following with interest for me and 9mo DD. Especially today as I'm feeling unwell so we can't go to planned activity and we're both a bit cooped up.

DD loves her 'treasure box' - wicker basket full of shite bits and bobs to play with - wooden spoon, tea strainer, bath puff, big pebble. She spends ages emptying it!

"...she spends ages taking everything out and putting it back". Am literally swooning with jealousy - DS (10 months) empties draws, cupboards, bags, boxes - basically anything with stuff in it is emptied. And that's it. How do you get the repacking thing going?

11 month DS likes...

Getting all his toys handbooks off the shelf
Banging pots and pans, meta ixng bowls and plastic tubs with a wooden spoon or spatula
Playing his xylophone and tambourine
Pushing his toddler cart or grown up kitchen chairs about
Hide and seek
Being read to and turning pages
Shaking bottles of water with fairy liquid in to make bubbles (lid on)
Hiding toys under muslin cloths and revealing them ('where's teddy?')
mummy hiding under a big hat or towel then jumping out making bear noises
Obstacle courses made of cushions
Dancing in the sling
Tickling
Looking in the mirror when getting dressed and undressed
Getting potatoes, peppers etc out of a cardboard box
Making piles of blocks fall down
Practising walking holding onto my skirt or apron
Glove puppets biting him
Ripping kitchen roll sheets
Turning lights on and off
Incey spider, pata cake, this little piggy
Being thrown in the air and swung about
Bunches of keys
Scrunching unopened cornflakes in their crackly wrapping
Bouncing golf balls and ping pong balls
Getting all my shoes out
Having me whisper in his ear with a kitchen roll tube

Er... Cbeebies?
Game of "bite mummy's toes"?
Stacking cups?

What he mainly did at 10 months was try and fail to sit up. A lot.

We went for a lot of long walks in the sling.

That was about it really.

Crawl tunnelry throwing different toys in for them to find.

My DS2 loves anything he's not supposed to, so just casually leaving a saucepan and wooden spoon on the kitchen floor actually made him squeal with joy and kept him busy for 20 mins while I cooked a curry!

He also really loves his older brothers light sabre - sound on, sound off, light on, light off, quick chew of the end, sound on............

Obviously I cant type, I mean't to say, crawl tunnel TRY throwing in different toys etc