mummyMia
28-04-2011, 09:34 PM
Ds loves baking and a few week ago I started doing 'baking Thursday' every week. I also have a very energetic 12month old who won't sit still for a second. I am really struggling to include her in the activity.
We have been baking at the kitchen table (instead of kitchen counter) and the baby sits in her high chair so that she can see. I have tried giving her bowls and spoons to play with but she isn't very interested and throws them on the floor. I have also mixed up some gloop from whatever ingredients we are using and put it on her high chair tray but that doesn't interest her for more that a minute or two either:(
She seems to think that as she is in the high chair she is going to be fed and starts banging the tray until I give her something nice (nicer than the gloop that is) to eat. This keeps her happy but doesn't really help in terms of including her.
Does anybody have any good ideas?
We have been baking at the kitchen table (instead of kitchen counter) and the baby sits in her high chair so that she can see. I have tried giving her bowls and spoons to play with but she isn't very interested and throws them on the floor. I have also mixed up some gloop from whatever ingredients we are using and put it on her high chair tray but that doesn't interest her for more that a minute or two either:(
She seems to think that as she is in the high chair she is going to be fed and starts banging the tray until I give her something nice (nicer than the gloop that is) to eat. This keeps her happy but doesn't really help in terms of including her.
Does anybody have any good ideas?