(when your kids are stable enough sitters so that you can be IN the room, but don’t have to be right next to the tub)
1. Make felt food. If you have never done it before, start with strawberries (they will still look great without the “seeds”, bow tie noodles, or cookies
2. Gather things for “will it sink or float”
3. Cut and assemble these amazing (but extremely tedious!) letters. (I am up to D) or these cool shapes
4. Learn to knit (it’s on my list of things to do)
5. Read through recipe books and plan a menu with your kids
6. Fold laundry (okay, not so fun, but productive)
7. Play with glow sticks
8. Organize the cabinets (again, maybe not so fun…)
9. Close the shower curtain and put on a high up (or off to the side) puppet show
10. Talk to your kids. (this may sound obvious, but I was just reading that a US Dept. of Education study from the late 1980s — i.e. before phones and other devices/distractions became commonplace — found that American mothers spend less than 30 minutes a day talking with their children and fathers spend even less — One study found that the average father spends less than 30 minutes a week talking to his children (Lucy Calkins, Raising Lifelong Learners, 11)
