Ten Activities To Entertain Your Toddler

!±8± Ten Activities To Entertain Your Toddler

Having an 18 month old myself, I know how hard it can be to entertain your toddler. I seem to revert to the same old activities which not only bores her, but it bores me as well. There's not much worse than a bored toddler. This article provides 10 activities to help you entertain your toddler.

Get Artistic:

My little one loves to color. I cover our coffee table in a large piece of craft paper and get out the crayons, pens and pencils and finger paints. She loves to draw and my table is protected. Just keep an eye out for eating the crayons.

Play-doh:

Fairly self explanatory. Make sure to cover your floor to keep your carpet clean. Again keep an eye out for eating the play-doh.

Slide:

Either go to the playground or you can buy a small tiny tikes slide and put it right in the living room. I bought one at a garage sale for 5 bucks. The best money I think I've spent.

Tent or TeePee:

We got a cloth teepee at the county fair this year. I thought she was a little young for it, but she loves it. She takes pillows and blankets in there and runs in and out. We recently acquired a "play hut." It's made out of tent material, has a couple larger rooms and tunnels connect them. She loves it. We don't leave it up all the time, so when it does come out it's exciting.

I-Spy:

Whether you spy ears, bellybuttons, or sheep or dogs. I-Spy gets toddlers involved in learning new words and begin to learn to individuate items. For example, my little one is learning that sheep are not dogs.

Kitchen Play:

Fill a bottom cabinet, away from the stove, with different sized plastic containers. They can bang them together and start stacking them inside one another. Helps keep them entertained while you are doing dishes, or making dinner.

Dance:

Dancing is such fun. Just turn on the radio or a CD and get silly with your little one. Mine dances to just about anything. I love to see how she dances differently to different kinds of music. Be silly, Have fun, dance like no one's watching.

Go to the park:

Get some fresh air, swing, play with other kids.

Play dress up:

Get some old t-shirts, dresses and even older siblings hand me downs, and dress up. Get them to use their imagination, pretend to be a princess or a farmer.

Make a "favorites" book:

Look through old magazines together and let them find things they like. Cut the pictures out of the magazine and paste them onto construction paper. Wrtite what they are on each page then tie the pages together. Now she has a little book of her "favorites".

Hopefully this gets you started and will help get your imagination going as well as your toddlers. With a jumpstart of ideas it's much easier to start thinking of more and more ways to entertain your toddler.

Ten Activities To Entertain Your Toddler

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!±8± Cast Iron Wood Stove - Benefits and Usage

Wood burning stoves have been in use since as early as the eighteenth century. They became extremely popular during the nineteenth century and even now they are in great demand. In the earliest stoves earthenware tiles were used for protection. They were often beautifully decorated and were employed in some of the greatest palaces of Europe during the middle ages.

Ceramic at that time was popular for use as the material from which to fashion wood burning stoves from. Even up to the twentieth century the use of ceramic was prevalent in the construction of the wood burning stoves even those with an iron firebox. The ceramic stoves were able to absorb large quantities of heat and release that heat over a long period of time.

Later, after cast iron was found to work very effectively in the stoves it became the popular material for building the wood burning stoves. It tended to offer many advantages over the ceramic versions. Cast iron is a very strong material and the stoves which are built from it are actually quite durable. Many of the cast iron stoves from over a century ago are still functional and in a very good condition. Most of the antique wood burning stoves were made of cast iron.

Cast iron can easily sustain very high temperatures without being damaged and it is a good conductor of heat. The stoves are usually made from plates which are bolted together. If a part is damaged, it can be quickly replaced. It also allows the stove to be designed in various ways and ornamented as one desires. As you can readily see the stoves were more than a mere source of heat the wood burning stove made of cast iron represented a beautiful piece of furniture and occupied a place of pride in whichever room it was kept in. Even today these stoves are in big demand by collectors. By the end of the nineteenth century the cast iron stoves began being manufactured in various enamel colors.

Modern manufacturing methods dictate that there are mainly three materials which are popular in the construction of modern wood burning stoves - steel, cast iron and soapstone. Steel is a very good conductor of heat and is suitable for large rooms and basements where it quickly starts radiating heat after being started. Soapstone on the other hand takes a long time to heat up and keeps on radiating heat for a considerable amount of time after being turned off. Cast iron lies somewhere in the middle of these two extremes.

Wood burning stoves have revived their popularity because they look beautiful and are very cost effective and reliable as compared to gas, oil or electric stoves.

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