DD is older but here are the things we do while housebound due to heat at the moment,
Morning, while I cook lunch and prepare for the day dd goes to her cupboard and pulls out all the tupperware, wooden spoons and dry pasta and cooks, now we have included the "girls" in this game 5 of her dollies, we get up to an hour out of this.
Reading, have all her books in a box and she opens the box and goes through them all.
Colouring-doesnt last longer than 10 mins so might have to try something more adventurous soon.
Tea parties- she makes me cups of tea with lots of adding of sugar and stirring while I check on here.
Dancing- she particularly likes Kylie and Max Pezzali.
Small toy car which if you pull back goes by itself and beach ball, another good time killer:-)
Box of blocks, she has just gotten into doing this by herself.
"Here she comes" I lie on her soft toy cat which is seat shaped and she walks around me and then jumps on me, could get hours out of that! Also when I am making the bed she gets under the sheet and can spend half an hour fixing it over me and herself tucking us in.
Pillows on the floor, she thinks she is climbing
Bringing her dolls for a walk in their buggy around the house, got lots of time out of this one too.
Housework, she is great for laundry, likes to load the basket, then the washing machine, empty the machine and push the basket to the dryer to hang it up.
and if all else fails which it does frequently and she asks me for tv ( she watches 2 week after she got addicted in less than a week) I give her a bath in the morning and let her stay for ages.
We have now started to do a bit of baking the odd time in the afternoon, she helps by counting how much flour how many eggs I need etc
Reading back it seems like we have loads to do but we still go through the what am I going to do today phase and from 10.30 to 11.30 seems to be the longest hour before lunch. We also go out in the afternoon, late around 5pm despite the heat.
Fiona
