what kind of activity can i do with my four year old when he comes home from school until bedtime?
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I had a very similar question with a 5 year old who always wanted my attention.  A friend of mine suggested that I put him to work.  Awesome!  Now as I'm putting away groceries, watering the lawn, feeding the dogs, anything,  . . . I always find at least some small aspect that he can help with.
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Legos\n\nIf (s)he's really young, square pegs with square holes and a wooden mallet should do.\n\nWhen I was young I played with Brio, Legos, Lots of puzzles, and a limitless supply of books. (I was taught to read at age 4)\n\nNow I am an engineering student at Berkeley! Looks like my parents taught me well.\n\nOh, and please teach your child to be able to entertain him or herself, toys that stimulate the imagination and AVOIDING  THE TELEVISION AT ALL COSTS will help a lot.\n\nPlay with your children as much as possible, you'll cherish it when they move on to study great things at prestigous universities (I know my parents do).\n\nOh, and start saving now, it really helps me out a lot that my parents have my education covered because they started saving for school as soon as I was born.
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Rent a few movies that they are interested in...Order pizzas, and make ice cream floats. At this age, a pajama party is still fun, regardless of if they are boys or girls. This way they can have a blast staying up all nite watching movies, eating pizza, soda, and hey, they should make popcorn too.
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Children have a short attention span, so I would highly recommend looking into getting, just for the day, something to keep them all busy. A good idea might be a jumping castle or similar. Other games that can be played are musical games; musical chairs, hot potato, dancing contest, karaoke, etc. The are time consuming for the planner because they must last short periods of times, to keep the children's interest. Hope this helps! A link below provides a number of outside games that will surely keep them busy for a larger amount of time.
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Start a hobby. Something your kids like too but leave some time for just you and perhaps the perfect someone...
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try to get involved maybe when he is not home practice playing those video games and when he comes home play with him if you beat him he will think that the game was weak so he will stop playing just so that you wont play. or you can like it and challenge eachother with new games.maybe some Sex games would be good. and if he goes out with his friends go along
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wake her up at 7am...don't let her nap throughout the day, put her to bed at 8pm.\n\nIt may take several days of doing this, but it's the only way to get her sleep back on a normal schedule for a 4 year old\n\nMake her go to bed at 8pm even if she's not tired.  put her to bed, read a story, do the normal bedtime routine but don't let her get up out of bed.  \n\nYou are the parent, not her.  Make her listen to your rules & follow them.
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Have a nice bubble bath ready....when he gets out, have a candlelight dinner waiting for him. After dinner, watch a movie together.....then whatever.
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You can take him to some of your friends who have kids of his age.Let him play there with toys and you also join them along wih ur friends.He will feel secured and friendly
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Be creative, be fun, be caring, be patient!\n\nCome up with ideas, fun things to do, be active with the kids, sometimes, sacrifice a little energy, kids love it when you can keep up with them, but you need to know when to say no, you can't teach them it's okay to just jump and climb on people. \n\nThey're little boys, get some trucks, get some games, get some movies that are kid appropriate, most likely a cartoon about racing, or legos, something of that nature. nothing controversial because it's a church family. You want something that's not going to upset the parents if they see it.\n\n--Get them involved in drawing, or sitting in a circle and play catch. observe the way things are dealt with in a preschool and a kindergarden, and mimic some of the teachers. smile a lot, but don't smile when they do something wrong, speak quietly, and tell them to calm down. don't yell, ever. \n\nMake sure to keep a soft expression, even when you're upset, you don't want the kids scared of you, but you want them to listen. read them a book before they go to bed. (( 3 and 4 might not be so easy to read too)) ...the 3 and 4 yr old will probably be extremely energetic, so when it's time for them to go to bed, you might have to put up a small struggle, but don't give in, and don't be harsh. \nThe best thing to do is to get them tired out, put them to bed, or close their doors and turn off the lights, if they're scared of the dark, use a night light. - but keep the doors closed. if the kids see things that they can do to stay awake, they'll do them. be fun during the day, and boring when it's bed time. \n\n\nPatience and love is the key to children. and, relax! have fun.
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Do somethings little girls like to do. \n1.Play tea party.\n2.Take walks, and talk. Point things like bugs out \nto her. Get messy and make mud pies. Why I think my\nnails are so long. I loved making them.\n3.Arts and crafts= coloring, drawing, painting, pasting.\n4.Put cut out shapes on paper with a glue stick.\n5.Read to her.\n6.Have her read to you. She doesn't know how to read yet,\nbut she can make a story up using the pictures. \n7.Let her help you around the house. Sweeping, picking\nthings up, planting seeds.\n8.Put on some music and dance. My favorite tv commercial\nis of a father dancing with his daughter. \nI used to work with children.
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I think that many of the 'family' theme activities would fit well into this theme.  Here are a few circle time activities:\n\nHave available several paperdolls.  I usually make these and laminate them so that after circle time they can be placed in the manipulative center to further the activity.  I make 3 of each doll--dad, mom, sister, brother, baby, grandma, grandpa, dogs and cats.  I start the circle time by telling them about an activity that I did with my own family over the weekend.  Then I show them the dolls and build my family with my dolls.  I show them how there is a dad, mom, 4 children, and 2 dogs in my home.  Then I pass the dolls to the first child and ask them to build their family with the dolls.  I give each child a turn to build their family.\n\nAnother activity that would do great with this theme is to discuss different types of homes.  You can do a felt board activity with this one.   Make a houses 2 stories, 1 story, an apartment building, moble home, etc.  You can also make garages, trees, flowers, ect.      Let them children take turns showing what they live him.  \n\n\nthis would be a great time to intergrate straight lines and curved lines for math and art.  Encourage the children to use yarn to construct a picture of their home.  \n\nOr you could intergrate geometric shapes.  Make available cirles, squares, triangles, and diamonds made out of construction paper or foam pcs.  Encourage the children to make houses using the shapes.\n\nThis would be a good time to invite the local fire department and learn about home fire safety and then ask the parents to help them make a fire escape plan for their home.\n\n\nYou could make a class neighborhood!  Have each parent send a photo of their child with their family standing outside of their home.  Then have the class construct a collage of the photos and then make a bulletin titled "Our Friendly Neighborhood!"\n\nAlong with the above activity you can do a dictation document witht the children.  Ask each child "What is your favorite thing about your home?"  And then dictate exactly what the child says and hang them on your bullentin board.\n\nfor centers:\n\ndramatic play center make sure to have the usual things available for them to role play about home.\n\nBlock area have cars, streets, people, etc.\n\nScience area:  This one is simple.  You'll want sand and water for this center!    With plenty of objects to help them build houses.\n\n\nThere are alot of activities that you can come up with for this theme.  Just be creative.
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Find someone to watch your baby for the evening.  Make sure that the house is clean and orderly.  Make him his favorite dinner and dessert.  Afterwards, you can treat him to a massage, and a selection of other bedroom activities (whatever you guys enjoy!).\n\nIf you're going to be home before he is, you can have a little more fun with the preparations.  Maybe be waiting on the bed for him when he gets home, with a trail of rose petals leading to the bedroom.  Lighted candles and a couple glasses of sparkling cider would be a nice touch.\n\nDon't forget to unplug the phone.\n\nI wish you the best of luck and the best of times with your romantic night!
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The best shape activity that worked for my son at this age was a shape sorter. They can picked up at any toy store or Walmart/Target/K-Mart. \n\nIt is a plastic box or ball with holes cutout in various shapes. There are plastic pieces that fit inside of each cutout. The child has to match the shape to the cutout and slide it insde the shape sorter.\n\nIt's fun and easy.....I would name the shapes as he placed them inside so eventually he learned the names of the shapes....hearing it and seeing it at the same time makes a huge difference!\n\nGood luck!
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Get a babysitter and get out! Or, get a babysitter and atay in. Sometimes it's nice to play house, just like before the kids, when you'd chase each other around the kitchen table naked. We have a 3yo boy, but she works days, I work nights. I know what you're talking about. A hot tub doesn't hurt either.
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occupy ur time stay busy with some sort of activities
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buy him a slinky or play-doh. those are so much fun.