What to do with 2 year old.

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As title says really, tell me what you do with your toddlers in the day! Thanks!

Mine likes helping me dust & peg out washing. At the moment he's enjoying be allowed in the garden without needing hat/coat/gloves etc. He's almost 3 so is mainly walking when I do school runs. He likes me helping him with puzzles. Our days are probably fairly dull but he seems to enjoy them still. We do call in at the park on warm days after we've dropped the older 3 at school, if the baby is happy/asleep. Oh & we go on rock hunts

I've recently started doing some crafty things with DD. Cutting up bits of paper for her to stick on card/ finger painting/ playing with play doh.
Reading, playing in garden with a bucket of water with bath toys in, we have also recently bought a slide and see saw for the garden to play on. Walk to the park. Local coffee shop.

We go to an activity in the morning-baby gym/library story time/swimming etc then home for lunch and nap. Afternoons are spend out at the park or soft play or playing in the garden at home. I find that we are both much happier if we are out and about! At home he loves to play with trains and cars and has just got into play doh and painting. He loves being outside watering the plants and digging in the mud!

2 year olds are easy, just get them outside. Bucket, sticks, rocks, puddles etc. If it's raining I'd do a shopping centre so they can wander around. Bathtime can also waste a good hour too.

We do breakfast, independent play & getting ready, snack, activity (park/baby group), lunch, nap or quiet time, snack, independent play whilst i do housework (much easier in summer with the garden) dinner bath bed.

Hm, tell me more about this 'independent play', thehairyhog. I would give my right arm for ten minutes to hang out the washing but DD (just two) doesn't yet do playing on her own/having me out of her eyeline.

Following this thread :)

@Rainatnight I have the opposite problem to you, my DS does not like me even sitting next to him when he's playing. If I try and colour/play lego/play cars with him he gets very cross.

Me and my ds usually do park in the morning and a bit of shopping/playgym/visit family or friends, back home for 11/12 and he plays with cars, lunch, nap at 1pm till 3pm, plays with cars. Usually quite a few hide & seek games happen too, normally when he can hear me approaching and he scrambles about muttering 'hide hide hide hide'.

I'm so glad for the warm weather now, the winter was so long. In the garden we do, playing with the cat with some sticks - he always finds it hilarious, water play with a watering can/bucket of water/tea set. Digging in the mud, football, basket ball with a bucket is quite fun. If I'm in a particularly good mood we take his little tykes car out for a trip around the houses. He pretty much decides what we do to be honest, I'm usually only allowed to observe and referee.