Indoor activities?

[rjamz]

So when it's so brutally hot like today, what do you guys do with your kiddos when you're stuck inside? Especially at home?

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[skwcm80]

We watch more tv than normal, but I kind of just let them run around for the most part.

[charlielove]

Charlotte has gotten into coloring a bit and playing with Playdoh.

[bebeetmoi]

I let her run wild. Finger paint. Play Peekaboo Barn on my iPad. Go to a big store for mindless errands and let her run around.

[TrudyCampbell]

Ugh. If you find out, tell me. We just turned on Sesame Street.

[rjamz]

Jul 15, 2013 10:26:10 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Ugh. If you find out, tell me. We just turned on Sesame Street.

Yeah. We're watching tv too

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[bigapple]

Long bath: done. Run wild: done. Braved outdoors for water table: done (mommy quit, he would've stayed there all day). And that's only filled two hours...

We only have window AC in our bedroom and C's, both of which are tiny and boring (no TV, no room for toys, etc). Luckily the rest of our apartment isn't that hot yet (mid 80s at the moment), so we've been playing in the living room.

We'll probably go to the Museum of Motherhood later to run wild. It's cool, and they have a play area. It's a bit pricey ($15), but C loves the climbing area. The indoor playground at Chelsea Piers ($12) is excellent but really crowded and difficult to get to. Children's Museum of Manhattan? AMNH and The Met are always really cold, but we don't have a membership to either.

Even on a good weather day, C is a monster if we stay home, so we'll need to venture out at some point.

[dixeedeluxe]

Watch TV. Run around. Eat food. Watch TV. Watch TV.

[rjamz]

I just gave him a box of tissues. Hopefully that will keep him occupied a bit

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[bigapple]

He's currently playing "Take every item out of Mommy's dresser." Always a crowd pleaser.

[Regina Philange]

Watch TV and build a fort.

[vthokie]

Jul 15, 2013 10:36:36 GMT -5 Regina Philange said:

Watch TV and build a fort.

I was just going to say that I was planning on some fort building this week with A

[orriskitten]

Jul 15, 2013 10:34:23 GMT -5 bigapple said:

Long bath: done. Run wild: done. Braved outdoors for water table: done (mommy quit, he would've stayed there all day). And that's only filled two hours...

We only have window AC in our bedroom and C's, both of which are tiny and boring (no TV, no room for toys, etc). Luckily the rest of our apartment isn't that hot yet (mid 80s at the moment), so we've been playing in the living room.

We'll probably go to the Museum of Motherhood later to run wild. It's cool, and they have a play area. It's a bit pricey ($15), but C loves the climbing area. The indoor playground at Chelsea Piers ($12) is excellent but really crowded and difficult to get to. Children's Museum of Manhattan? AMNH and The Met are always really cold, but we don't have a membership to either.

Even on a good weather day, C is a monster if we stay home, so we'll need to venture out at some point.

Its actually suggested donations- it is funded publicly as well as privately, so if you pay taxes, you've more than paid your admission as per one of my college professors.

[bigapple]

Jul 15, 2013 11:00:10 GMT -5 orriskitten said:

Jul 15, 2013 10:34:23 GMT -5 bigapple said:

Long bath: done. Run wild: done. Braved outdoors for water table: done (mommy quit, he would've stayed there all day). And that's only filled two hours...

We only have window AC in our bedroom and C's, both of which are tiny and boring (no TV, no room for toys, etc). Luckily the rest of our apartment isn't that hot yet (mid 80s at the moment), so we've been playing in the living room.

We'll probably go to the Museum of Motherhood later to run wild. It's cool, and they have a play area. It's a bit pricey ($15), but C loves the climbing area. The indoor playground at Chelsea Piers ($12) is excellent but really crowded and difficult to get to. Children's Museum of Manhattan? AMNH and The Met are always really cold, but we don't have a membership to either.

Even on a good weather day, C is a monster if we stay home, so we'll need to venture out at some point.

Its actually suggested donations- it is funded publicly as well as privately, so if you pay taxes, you've more than paid your admission as per one of my college professors.

I know, but I feel like such a cheapskate paying less to enter such amazing buildings.  But then the other part of me is still living in DC (I was there for a decade) where all of the Smithsonians and galleries are free, and I get a little indignant about paying anything.  

Maybe I'll Met it up today.  Speaking of which, NY-area ladies: the Met has a free story hour every day.  I think C is still too young, but I play to go regularly once he's old enough.  

[rjamz]

We went to the nearby playground for a grand total of....15 minutes. I'm soaked

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[rubber pants]

Build a fort, let her play with the laundry basket, read books, let her run around, watch TV, long bath, give her a roll of TP and tell her to throw the peices away into the trash can, color.

I hate being stuck indoors.

[Regina Philange]

I want Lou to color! He still tries to eat the crayons. lol

[fryjack2]

Does your building have a hallway or lobby? I let them boys run around in ours.

We go on "adventures"-- to take the trash down, to get the mail, to put something in the storage space, etc.

We go insane

[devonpow]

I go to the gym (so he can play in the gym daycare, lol). I fill up the water table and baby pool on our balcony and let him hang in that, there is a nearby toystore with a small playspace I take him to, we occassionally brave the bookstore (although he now likes to basically detsroy the bookstore, so that is out), lots of play dates at people's houses.... We go out to breakfast and lunch a lot, just to get out....

This hot weather sucks. I feel like I spend all winter stuck inside - this is when we are supposed to be able to get out of the house!!

[dixeedeluxe]

Adeline also eats crayons. They come out in her poop. Whoops. Edie never ate crayons!

Our kids are probably too young for duckpin bowling, but I was just thinking that's probably the perfect outing for an almost 3 year old!

Do you guys have duckpin bowling?

[TrudyCampbell]

Jul 15, 2013 11:14:25 GMT -5 Regina Philange said:

I want Lou to color! He still tries to eat the crayons. lol

Ditto!

[AndyCohen]

Go to the playroom

But seriously, maybe put some water in the tub and let him splash a little? We're doing Museum of Natural History today and probably the Children's Museum later this week. Audrey gets so cranky when she's inside all day. I'll probably go out with her in the morning and the evening to break it up.

[rjamz]

We just did a bath. Gonna bust out the crayons when he's done eating. Maybe he'll be an artistic genius

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[muppetinma]

This is why I love belonging to My Gym. Free Play!!! Other than that, I do what all of the PPs suggested. We build forts, destroy the house, and watch more TV than I'd like. We rarely play in his room, so I bust that out as a change of scenery. That'll keep him happy for an hour or more. I also try to come up with crazy bath ideas. Sometimes we add his ball pit balls to the bath tub. Sometimes I make different colored ice cubes and throw them in the tub to play with. The other day, I busted out some shaving cream to play with in the tub. It's been SOOOO rainy here, I've had to come up with all sorts of other options.

[jfh]

Have a baby or kid friend over and let them entertain each other while you drink mojitos.

The museums are the place to be on a hot day down here. Very air conditioned and reasonably entertaining.

[formerlyllizzyb]

It's pouring here in OK.

I killed an hour at the gym while Graham was in the childcare. We went to the store for some meat to grill tonight. It was only 10 a.m. when we got home. After the usual play at home, he was bored. We attempted coloring, which killed about 10 minutes. Then he found my pump and took it apart.

It's only 1 p.m. and I know he'll be awake from his nap by 2. Our playdate just got canceled so I'm not sure what we'll do this afternoon.

[ruby412]

Visit my parents, go to Target or Costco, toddler play area at the mall, invite a friend over for a playdate.

I wish my kid would watch TV a little! But she doesn't care after 5 minutes and I feel guilty about it anyway.

[ruby412]

Oh also: splash around in my big bathtub.

[llamajockey]

We just replaced our water heater and saved the huge box. The girls have been playing non-stop in it. They even color it! So...find a box, stat!

We also watch a lot of tv

[fusion]

Go to indoor play places (we have a bounce place, a huge indoor playscape place, Chikfila, and McDs), go shopping, go to a splashpad. They'll play in the backyard while I watch from inside if it's later in the day. Our yard is heavily shaded but it's still too hot for me after noon. They come in when they are ready. I'll make food with Jameson while Anna watches. I like the ice cubes and shaving cream in the bathtub ideas.