Keep 'Em Busy

Here are some ways to keep your toddler/preschooler busy with items you may have in your purse:

• Have your child close her eyes. Using your lipstick, make a small dot somewhere on your body. Then have you child try to locate it!
• Using a pen, draw smiley faces on the tips of your child's fingers. If they get lonely their finger pals can entertain them!
• Wrap a small object inside a (clean) tissue and see if your child can guess what it is from the shape of the tissue.
• Breathe onto a pocket mirror to steam it up. Then use your finger to draw a shape or letter on the fog. See if your child can identify it, then let him try.
• Draw something nearby and in sight, using a pen. See how long it takes your child to guess what you a drawing, and then locate it.
• Ball up a clean tissue and then let your child see how far she can blow it in the air. Crumple up another and let your children have a race to see who can blow it across a table first. Join in the fun with them!