New behaviors - any suggestions?

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I have a part time four year old who is my oldest child in care. Lately the child has been struggling with playing nicely with the other kids. Most of the new behaviors I have figured out my wording for correcting. One I'm still trying to figure out.

So, one of the other children will ask someone else where a certain toy is, or express out loud what they intend to play with next. 4 year old will then scurry to said toy to have it first and proudly exclaim to have it and be having a turn. The first few times I tried ignoring, but it is becoming a disruptive habit.

An attempt to explain but you know the other child wanted to play with it next, did not have desired result.

Any ideas? I'm about to call out "FREEZE!" the next time the scurrying begins.

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Maybe since he is scurrying and searching already, you could announce all loud, "Who can help us find the motorcycle (or whatever) for Johnny?... We looked under here, we looked... Oh you found it for him! Thank you, 4 year old! You are such a helper to all the younger kids AND to me! Look Johnny! 4 year old found the motorcycle for you, here you go!..." And put out your hand and get it from the four year old, hand it to johnny aand then quickly say something for 4 year old to get involved with so he doesnt try to keep the toy... "4 year old, come here! I wanted to show you this... I've been thinking how you like trains and I thought we could separate all the train books out and put them over here..." Lol some random thing you come up with on the spot.. Or maybe have some ideas ahead of time. Good luck!