Entertaining my 18 month old

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I need inspiration for new games we can play. I'm struggling at the mo to entertain him in the house and I'm worried he's getting bored. What games do you play ?

Indoors: Playdoh, colouring in, mega blocks, tea parties, picnics, reading.
I use the Imagination Tree for a lot of ideas...a shoe box with holes in the lid and a big pile of pom poms to poke through the holes. Big wooden buttons into a money box. I have made sensory boxes filled with various things...rice...porridge oats...I put in kitchen utensils and they love having a dig. Freeze finger paints into ice cubes with lolly sticks and it makes great paintsicles.

Outdoors: Garden toys, sand & water table, we made them a sensory garden where they can dig and look for mini beasts, mud kitchen (old kitchen sink and lots of old pots, pans and utensils) - they make mud cakes and get up to all sorts. My children are always dirty

I had 19 month old twin DD's.

Playing boo behind doors, the sofa, chairs...
helping me dust. Although dd gets rage if she doesn't have possession of the mr sheen.
Digging in the garden with a little spade
bunging a sheet over the table and making a house
Lots of singing

Stickers and emptying cupboards are a hit in our house. Anything that involves dismantling and putting back together!

Outdoors: painting the walls with water, cleaning garden toys with a sponge (DS has Cozy Coupe and other bits), toy lawnmower went down very well and wheel barrow; digging a section of soil that's his own.
Indoors: Moon dough; filling cat litter trays with dried beans and scooping them and spilling back in again etc. Imagination Tree had a nice one where kids stick damp felt shapes on your window (pre-cut by you and you can buy the felt squares in the large supermarkets). Check it out on there; I'm not selling it too well here. Indoors also: hoovering, dusting, mopping with me; putting coins in a money box over and over, posting 'letters' through the letter box and other slots around the house. For art painting, you can buy cheap foam paint dabbers on eBay which are good when they haven't got much motor control for paint brushes or pens. Sometimes I get some toys out the night before and encourage that to be the focus of the morning, ie just cars and lorries with everything else put away. In some ways, it's easier as they just have one focus and you help them make the most of it rather than getting it all out and there being too much choice.

Lots of brilliant ideas, Thankyou