What do you do to keep your 3y/o entertained?

[redbuttercupcake]

Just that really. I wfh but manage my time around my DC (18m/3y). They've recently had a lot of screen time as they've been unwell. But I really do need to get some structure in as they don't go to nursery (yet).

Any advice would be helpful.

Out the house at least once a day, for example on scooter or balance bike to the park, to a soft play, to do shopping etc. Indoors usually a bit of time doing painting or sticking... using a large bit of cardboard box or lining wallpaper, paints, glue and bits cut out of magazines, or things to paint, eg little plaster things. A bit of time reading books. Some time free play (sometimes this is successful, sometimes not), particularly with magnetic tiles, duplo or dolls.

Also singing, dancing, drawing, stickers, 'helping' with chores.

Jigsaws, duplo, reading to them, cooking with them. Definitely out of the house everyday. Does your local library have story time? One of mine liked playing with the pots and pans and wooden spoons. try finger painting and potato prints. Just playing with water in the washing up bowl can be fun. I also used to put the stair gate across the front door so they could sit and watch passers by but I don’t think I could do that now. We live near a large, internationally known, museum so we used to go there regularly as well as to the local shopping mall. Just to walk round and have a change of scene. I would take a drink and a snack. There were some large toys to climb on. At 3 yrs mine used to go to friends for lunch and we would do a weekly swap to give each other a break.