mushpea
17-03-2013, 04:49 PM
need some ideas on what to do with them for the last half hour of the day whilst parents are collecting, one now gets picked up at 4.30pm so at 4.25pm I was thinking I could say tidy up time now everyone then you can watch tv for half hour, thats fine as long as they want to watch tv but mine are quite active and I know the one going home at 4.30pm will then have a paddy as he wants to watch tv but I need a quite activity which requires little adult supervision so that I can talk to parents whilst the kids do whatever it is. normally they all play till home time ore we will do tv or the wii but as I said I know this will cause paddys for the one going home and if I wait till he's gone you can garuntee one of the others will ask for the tv whilst he's still here so i cant hide it from him.
anyway any ideas on nice quiet activitys that can be done without my input/supervision for ages 8yrs, 5yrs, 14mths, 20 months and 3yrs. I need somthing because the two older ones cannot control themselves and by the time parents are picking up they are either bored or hypo and trying to knock 7 bells out of each other whilst I deal with parents.
do you know reading back this post I woudl advise myself to tell them if they cant behave then the will have to sit on seperate chairs whilst I talk to parents but I really wanted to avoid this and have a nice happy atmosphere at the end of the day
anyway any ideas on nice quiet activitys that can be done without my input/supervision for ages 8yrs, 5yrs, 14mths, 20 months and 3yrs. I need somthing because the two older ones cannot control themselves and by the time parents are picking up they are either bored or hypo and trying to knock 7 bells out of each other whilst I deal with parents.
do you know reading back this post I woudl advise myself to tell them if they cant behave then the will have to sit on seperate chairs whilst I talk to parents but I really wanted to avoid this and have a nice happy atmosphere at the end of the day