quiet time | True Aim https://www.trueaimeducation.com Faith, Family and Home Education Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:03:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 8 Quiet Time Activities and Mom’s Library #114 https://www.trueaimeducation.com/8-quiet-time-activities-and-moms-library-114/ https://www.trueaimeducation.com/8-quiet-time-activities-and-moms-library-114/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2014 01:50:34 +0000 https://www.trueaimeducation.com/?p=4965 2 of my children still take naps. It’s when I take a break and then tackle some of the house work, so what can I do with the other 2? If I don’t give them an activity, they usually end up making quite a ruckus playing together. Rather than plopping them in front of a screen, I […]

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]]> 2 of my children still take naps. It’s when I take a break and then tackle some of the house work, so what can I do with the other 2? If I don’t give them an activity, they usually end up making quite a ruckus playing together. Rather than plopping them in front of a screen, I keep them quiet with simple activities like these. Here are 8 Quiet Time activities that help keep young children occupied.

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Exploring Sensory Bottles

Making several different bottles with different colors and types of liquid and items will inspire lots of exploration.

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Playing with Felt

Giving your child different felt shape to play with and create scenes and animals is a great idea. They’re like fuzzy reusable stickers!

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Solving Puzzles

Puzzles can be a lot of fun as long as they are age appropriate. Try these free Cube puzzle printables for your preschoolers.

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Painting With Q Tips

Painting with q tips is one of my favorite painting activities because it is relatively mess free. Try these free letter printables and let them create their own pictures.

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Building with Foam Blocks

Blocks are really fun to play with, but they make a lot of noise. That’s where foam blocks comes in. Here is a great messy activity to do with foam blocks.

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Drawing on the Windows

Make your own dry erase board by allowing your children to draw on the windows with dry erase markers. Can they trace what they see outside?

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Sensory Table Activities

Sensory tables allow children to do lots of different activities with lots of different substances.

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Play-Dough Guessing Game

This is perfect for my girls to do together and it involves one of their favorite things.

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