Biography, information, downloads, photo slideshows, and online store. Millions of searchable song lyrics at your fingertips. Updated daily with lyrics, reviews, features, meanings and more. Lurk a bit further into Gorillaz world with behind the scenes footage from the making of their new video for the 3 Artists, 1 Song “DoYaThing”. Weldon Tekno! An Ok song I most say But I think you are more nsync with the producer of pana. Pls work with him more. Sele bobo is good but his sound isn’t. How to get the Kids to Clean Up after Play. Imagine this: The kids are playing happily with their toys, blocks or puzzles, next thing you see they have left the toys and moved off to the next thing. Come day end the place is a mess and who is going to pick up all this stuff? MOM = YOU. I saw this comment a while ago: “If a child is old enough to get out a toy to play, she is old enough to put it away.”My reasoning behind wanting to have the kids pick up their toys after playing, be it after one toy use or at the end of the day, is to teach my little ones (aged 1, 3 and 4) to be aware and considerate of the “mess” that they are making. Call me crazy but I see the adult version of my child and the mess, just utter mess that he has no regard for what so ever. The poor woman who he marries, nagging and nagging for the dish to be put in the kitchen or the washing that is next to the basket to actually be aimed into the washing basket next time. I want to raise young happy thoughtful kids who will grow into caring and considerate adults. The best way I can see achieving this is to make it fun. Below are some tips and ways you can achieve this as well as a collection of links and quotes from some lovely ladies on how they get their kids to pick up after themselves. One will work for your little one, I am sure. Kids love to scoop stuff up, try to have a special dustpan for the play area and a little rake to add a little extra to the dustpan “game”. Rotate the toys so there isn’t so many of them out to pick up in the first place. I find that the kids actually use and play with the toys this way in our house as opposed to having everything in a basket. Create kid friendly storage areas. Display toys on a kid height shelf as advised in the Montessori way. I feel this gives them the freedom to play and then pack away where the toy belongs in its spot. Try adding DIY Toy Bin Labels to your storage area like East Coast Mommy did. Break it down, don’t just say “clean up” to a toddler / preschooler that can be one big daunting task! Start small, with just books, toy cars or the train set. Explain to your child why we clean up, to most packing the toys away is kind of like putting all the fun away. Heidi says: “I make it a game, I will pick something and say,’ hey G, make all those blocks bounce to their box, GOOO’ and off she’d go. The packet ate the shapes game, the teddies got fairy dust and flew to the cupboard”Allison from No Time For Flash Cards says – “We do 1. I see what they can pick up in 1. I was student teaching ” Secret toy / garbage / whatever they are picking up. You choose something to be the secret toy and whoever picks it up wins . Amazingly it’s always one of the last toys, pieces of garbage etc.”Childhood 1. When playing with them, observe times that they move from one activity to another and use these as teachable moments, “I will come and play with the blocks too but I am just going to pop the book back away in the basket first.”Example clean up songs to sing: Song 1 – to the tune of Mary Had a little Lamb. Time to put the toys away. Toys away, toys away. Time to put the toys away. For another day. Time to put the blocks away,Blocks away, blocks away. Time to put the blocks away. For another day. Change the item to put away until everything’s away. Song 2 – to the tune of Frere Jacques (Where is Thumbkin)Playtime’s over, Playtime’s over. Let’s clean up, let’s clean up. Then we’ll . For example: Then we’ll wash our hands, then we’ll wash our hands. And go eat lunch, and go eat lunch. Then we’ll sit on the carpet, then we’ll sit on the carpet. For story time, for story time. Song 3 – to the tune of He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands. Time to put the (toys) away. Time to put the (toys) away. Time to put the (toys) away. So we can (go outside!)Fill in whatever toys and whatever you’re doing next. How do you encourage your children to pack up after play?
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