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Question by Mary Martin
Submitted on 8/13/2003
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I would like some fun activities for children age 2, 3, and 4 years old to be played at a picnic

Answer by julie
Submitted on 9/21/2003
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play treasure hunt where the kids can find different colors and shapes of leaves

Answer by charlie
Submitted on 10/13/2003
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put them in teams and make them find 5 different things!! whoever comes up with 5 good things is the winner

Answer by kareena
Submitted on 11/24/2003
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help me

Answer by kareena
Submitted on 11/25/2003
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find please

Answer by KM
Submitted on 12/1/2003
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Some things I'vefound are: make puppets with the little kids. take small paper brown bags and draw on them. they have a BLAST!

Answer by Kelly
Submitted on 12/22/2003
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Hi, I babysit 4 kids, the ages of 7, 6, 3, and 1. I know it can be difficult for these age groups. One thing I've found is, bring a lot of movies. It's something that keeps them ALL occupied. Another thing is, bring coloring books, puzzles, etc. for the older ones, and while they're coloring, you can easily play/watch the little ones. Have fun!

Answer by Ashleigh
Submitted on 2/29/2004
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I babysit kids ages 2, 4, and 5. The five-year-old girl enjoys baking (especially with her new easy bake oven) and painting. The four-year-old boy loves to swim and the two-year-old likes to play with his toys, watch movies and read books.

Answer by Aggie
Submitted on 3/18/2004
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I'm a Playgroup Leader and Co-ordinator for an Out-of-School Club. With playgroup age, we play animal pretend. I choose different kinds of animals and children imitate the chosen animal. It goes down well and entertains them.

Answer by Poppy
Submitted on 2/4/2005
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I'm a grandfather, twin boys (4 yrs) if you have a workshop, garage, basement or??? you'll need small hammers, nails (roofing large heads-easier to hit) and a few boards (soft wood pine, cedar-nail penetrates easier)cut boards in different shapes, sizes etc. and let them nail together. Water color paints and let them paint their projects...you can even precut pieces to make "simple" bird feeders, houses etc.

Answer by Danielle
Submitted on 2/25/2005
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Get some poster board,glue and misc. items, IE: beads,straws,cotton balls,sprinkles etc.. Have the children work together to make a texture collage. You could even have them collect items from the park, sand,leaves,rocks. My 3yr. old loves doing this, it's fun and it takes awhile, so they'll be occupied.

Answer by Cari
Submitted on 6/21/2005
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I work in a nursery with two-year-olds, and they all love to bring me their favorite books, and I'll read them for the kids. They all enjoy to look at the pictures and tell you their opinions on the book. Reading to kids is a great way to keep the children occupied, and a fantastic way for them to learn.

Answer by Emily
Submitted on 9/25/2005
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what do i do with a 2 year old cousin who loves to color?

Answer by Tanya
Submitted on 10/31/2005
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I am a early childcare teacher, and i would do anything you can think of,anything simple they are children they will love it! such as...painting, collage with natural materials find scrap matrials, wool cotton,string and add to collage materials, construction building in the sand, books,drawing with textas,pencils,candle wax, make little hand/finger puppets,create a book about the child about their family or interests...and simply just add things to activities to make them interesting like to play dough add little plates, spoons, or blocks to see what they can create.

Answer by baby basher
Submitted on 11/2/2005
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cat in the hat

Answer by Lou Ann
Submitted on 11/6/2006
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Try a scavenger hunt. Give each child a card with a picture of an item. Ask them to find the item shown on the card. After they find each item, ask them to name the item and to match the item (example bucket/shovel, shoe/sock.)

Answer by kirsty
Submitted on 4/16/2007
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I'm just finished my 1st year at college and i enjoyed making a discovery box which the children really enjoyed and sat for quite a long time and played with!

Answer by Elizabeth
Submitted on 5/23/2007
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I am a student in a nursery and i work with children aged 2 to 3 years old. They love to glue things. I done an activity where i cut out flower shapes and stuck on photos of them, i then painted their hands green and used hand prints for the leaves of the flower. They absolutely loved it and wanted to do it again. They also love junk modeling and painting. They like to be able to run around outside and this is great as it burns off some of they energy!!

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Answer by Louisa
Submitted on 3/31/2006
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I'm a key worker in a nursery for 2-3's and find it is so easy to let them have choices in life to choose what they really want to play. If you always make their decision for them they wont make choices in life at an early age for them to feel independent.

Answer by Grandma Jane
Submitted on 5/5/2006
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I believe the best game for young children are to act with them, buy some costumes on sale after Halloween (fireman-police-fairy-even scary ). And just play together with them. Don't forget to take pictures and then you can have the child draw what they did. This is great

Answer by kat
Submitted on 5/6/2006
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4 boys age 2-6 they love trucks and cars

Answer by kat
Submitted on 8/3/2006
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painting, doodling/drawing, animal pretend, animal noises, craft etc.

Answer by amies
Submitted on 9/10/2006
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I work with children ages 2, 3, 4, and 5 years I need fun activities for the age 2 and the early 3 years old. my email lucy_us_mx26@yahoo.com

Answer by Thera
Submitted on 10/5/2006
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I'm a Playgroup Leader as well and am creating an indoor mini-golf course with boxes- there are activity sites for these...

Answer by sarah
Submitted on 4/23/2007
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my son who is 2 1/2 love bubbles. he also love to play hide and seek.

Answer by Brianna
Submitted on 6/4/2007
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I babysit 3 little girls ages 7,4,2 and they enjoy playing outside with each other on the jungle gym and swing set. They also like playing house in their bedroom. They really enjoy dressing up in my clothes and putting on my shoes and jewelry and makeup. They really enjoy coloring but beware what could happen to the walls.