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What do you provide for your school age kids to do? What kind of toys do they play with?
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Outside!!! My son has a metal detector and they had a blast with that! They did tear up my lawn so next time I'm going to designate a spot for them, because treasure finding turned into worm hunting...and well a 6" hole later. You get the idea
They also enjoy frisbee, basketball, soccer. I also just have 1st grade boys as far as school age goes. -
I think they argue a lot more too so be prepared for that! I know a lot of people on here don't take school age and I can't say I blame them. They all have so much pent up energy from being in class all day that they get to my house and it's like they have no control over their bodies :
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I did a scavenger hunt with them last week and that went over really well and another day they were arguing a lot I made them find things like 20 rocks (gravel driveway), 20 sticks, 20 leaves. And then made them work together to build a building out of Legos. They got along really well after that
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Inside-wise (because outside is easy I think):
I have a collage art bin (ribbons, eyes, cut up scrapbooking paper, stickers, yarn). Between that, glue sticks/bottles, markers and crayons, scissors and more scrap paper than they can handle they stay busy.
I also have a bunch of board games - sight word bingos, alphabet bingos, race car math, etc. Tons of puzzles and science-related flashcards (dinosaurs, space, animals, etc).
Books, books, books. We have tons and of all sorts of topics - beginning readers, chapter books, pick your own story, etc. The last 15-20 minutes before pickup at 5pm is reading time. I get the house clean, the kids are calm at pick up and I usually manage to start dinner prep or at least get the last of daycare cleaning done
Each kiddo has their own dry erase board with marker and eraser. They love those... I have my school agers most days for about 1.75 hours so between snack, art, reading and some kind of game we all play - pick up comes quickly.Comment
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