Routines with a 3 year old?

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Just wondering what your routine is with your little ones?
I have one day off a week with my DS who is 3 and looking for ideas on what to do, for at home and ideas for going out.
How do you structure your day? My DS struggles to play independently so any ideas on what your routine looks like would be great!
Thanks x

We went to a toddler group in the morning at 0930 for just over an hour. Then it would a trip to the supermarket after with lunch at home. Sometimes we stayed home in the afternoon and just played and watch TV or we'd walk to the park. Then it was dinner and bed

I also have one day of a week with a 3 year old. We don't have a routine really, every week is different depending on what else we have going on. If we've got a busy weekend coming up, for example, I'll keep our day off quite low key. Yesterday, we had a supermarket delivery which kept DS entertained for hours, then we went to the playground, came home of lunch and DS helped me do some batch cooking. Other than that, we just played Lego / trains / watched a bit of TV. Every couple of weeks we'll do an outing to a museum or suitable tourist attraction. We live in London so easy to just hop on the tube. Sometimes I try to tie it into what he's learning about at nursery but sometimes it's just stuff I want to do!

Yesterday, we had a supermarket delivery which kept DS entertained for hours

As the parent of anor 3 year old I'm genuinely curious as to how a shopping delivered kept your childs. attention for hours. Mine would have found something they wanted to eat and then mithered me to open it whilst I was trying to unpack the crates.

We don't have much of a routine but finding a group where he can let off steam with other similar aged children is always a bonus as travelling to the group, joining in and travelling home eats up a large part of the day.

Otherwise at home it's very much play with this puzzle for 3 minutes, tip this box of pens onto the puzzle change his mind and empty the contents of the toy kitchen whilst pretending to make me dinner and then realising he hasn't finished the puzzle and moaning because now there is no room for him to do so as the floor is coverered in toys.

We sometimes mix it up by going for a walk or to the park or the shops etch but he prefers a trip with a purpose so aimlessly wandering around isn't always his idea of a good time.

Ours comes in bags so he first insists on carrying them all one by one from the hall to the kitchen. I'm then not allowed to unpack them but he goes through each one reviewing the contents and, very slowly, putting everything away. Things that he likes in particular usually end up in a separate pile and he spends a lot of time organising them. He also has a snack cupboard so will usually also use it as a chance to get everything out of that cupboard too and line it all up. I just sit there with a cup of tea!

On holidays from nursery I usually take DD (3) to a class (DD likes swimming lessons) out for lunch or softplay that sort of thing.

If we are at home we do things like play snap, snakes and ladders, we do painting (she likes using rollers and sponges) or colouring, she likes the colouring roll from ikea because we spread on the floor and she can use glitter glue or try to stick pom poms on it. We make up games so we play tennis/cricket with a small basketball or I stand in goal while she kicks her football at me, cosmic yoga. And probably a bit too much tv. She might help in the kitchen with stirring or mashing an avocado.