Welcome to my Blogging from A to Z April Challenge for 2019! The A to Z Challenge is a blogging event held each April. Bloggers create posts from A to Z beginning on April 1st and ending on April 30th. There is a post scheduled for each day of the month (except for Sundays) with each day corresponding to a sequential letter of the alphabet.
This A to Z, I'm focusing on ways to entertain a toddler indoors. It's the middle of April, and yet I'm standing here staring out a dining room window to 4" of snow on the ground. Thankfully, it's melting. With our climate and tendency to spend half the year in snow and ice, indoor entertainment for these kiddos is a must.
Today is letter O's time to shine. We're stretching the bounds just slightly here, but I'm going with O is for orbs...we're talking about balloons.
The more time I spend with my kids and the more things we try, I find that the simplest (and thankfully, the cheapest) play ideas are often the most successful. In this case, it's a cheap pack of 100 balloons that I purchased along with other clearance arts and crafts supplies during a Target run.
At first, I was concerned that maybe the balloons wouldn't be much fun, since we didn't have any helium to make them float. As it turns out, the Boy was still just as enthralled. I filled up one blue, one green, and one red, and we were off to the races.
He loved tossing them in the air, watching me bat them around and giggled pretty heartily when I rubbed one on his head and then made it stick the the wall.
Those three little balloons stayed in play for about two weeks. He would see one sitting in the corner and suddenly, the game was on. He loved to identify their colors and just see them float down from the air. It's so much fun to see them enjoy these simple things.
When it comes to helium balloons, the boys also have a good time. We recently celebrated the Boy's birthday. As part of the decorations, we had a couple of bunches of balloons, including a couple of mylars. They both had fun watching the balloons dance with the air movements and seeing them pop back up when their strings were pulled to the ground and released.
The best fun with these was when I made a slipknot at the end of one and slipped it over the Baby's leg. He kicked and giggled for about 15 minutes, until I finally had to take the balloon from him to prevent him from popping it with his sharp little fingernails or teeth. We played that game a few more times before the balloon ultimately lost its oomph, but it was like a brand new toy every time.
Desperate for something to keep your toddler entertained? Just remember that simple is best. It's amazing how much joy can come from a little colored orb.
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