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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I stay at home with my almost 2.5 year old, but he will be starting preschool this fall 3 days per week.  We are out of the house all morning every day of the week, and home around 2 pm, but he is just incredibly bored in the house when he is home.  (He also no longer naps so the day seems really long).  He has two playrooms filled with toys, including puzzles, sticker books, coloring books, trucks, a train set, magnet board, blocks, etc. and seems bored with all of it.  Even after a fun morning out going to the playground, indoor gym, playgroup, Mommy and Me preschool class, etc. he comes home and is whiny and bored until dinner time.

He doesn't like any kind of arts and crafts or sensory play.  Doesn't like Play Doh, or cooking-related activities either.

There are no kids his age in the neighborhood so unfortunately we can't do afternoon playdates on a consistent basis.  I also don't know many other SAHMs.

How can I help him be less bored in the afternoons?  Even playing outside doesn't hold his interest, because our back yard doesn't have the great play equipment that the playground does.  He'll go outside, run around for 10 minutes and then want to come back in.[/quote]

Let him play in a big box. Give him blankets to make a sofa fort.[/quote]

Have pots, pans and safe large utensils in your accessible kitchen drawers. Let him come in, pull everything out , bang the wooden spoons on the pots and clang the lids together and let him have fun.

Does he like scissors or is he too young? If he can use safety scissors let him cut pictures out of magazines. Watch him or he'll cut his hair off though...[/quote]

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