Any ideas for activities??? One 6 year old and I'm pregnant.?

Question

My son and I are getting bored but being pregnant I'm too tired to go out and be super active but my son is getting bored at home. Any ideas that aren't too streneous or expensive, Im trying to save up for the new baby too.

Answer 1

get a playstation

Answer 2

Swimming

Picnic in the park

Ball Pit and Climbing activity centre

Feed the ducks

Cooking together at home

Make paper mache puppets in the garden

Cinema

Local museum

If your near the sea - beach (a ploy of ours was to bury some loose change in the sand and then find a coin - my son wiould dig for hours looking for  buried treasure and it cost us next to nothing - at the end of the day he would proudly show us his money that he had found.

Answer 3

Maybe take your son to the park and watch him play. Swimming

Answer 4

You can make homade plat dough, 1 cup salt, 4 cups flour, and enough cold water to make dough, mix it with your hands really well. After making desired shapes bake in the oven @ 350 degrees until hard, then you can paint them with water colors, he can make a gift for entire family... that should keep him busy, and you sain.

Answer 5

There are many inexpensive ways to entertain a child:

1) Set up a play date with another child, or several children.

2) Children love to build, especially boys. You can make thinks out of a box of tongue depressors, or even tiolet paper or paper towel rolls. Build a castle with old shoeboxes.

3) Play-doh is extremely inexpensive, and hours of creative fun.

4) Of course, drawing and painting. What about side walk chalk? You can sit and watch, and if he has a friend over, they can draw four square or hopscotch grids, and then play in them (Google them if you don't know what they are. You will need a ball for four square)

5) Playing "dress up" is fun for boys as well-they can pretend to be superheroes.

6) A local park. Your son might make a new friend there, and perhaps you can "exchange kids"-you take them once a week, and the other mother takes them once a week, giving each of you a break.

One note-I am not trying to be judgemental, but your child needs to be outdoors to be healthy and well adjusted. He needs to be around peers (meaning children his age) and he may resent the new baby if you are always telling him you can't do anything because you are pregnant, or are saving for the new baby...I am a mother of two sons, both big babies,so I understand how you may feel physically, but I pushed myself (within the limits of my health) to let my first son know that I still had time for him, and life wouldn't end as he knows it just because there is a new baby.

So...try to get him outside at least a little each day. I understand it is hard. But it will be worth it in the long run.

Good luck.

BTW -I'm a woman- my profile says male because my husband originally registered. I am going to fix this soon.