Harrison has some special things he only gets to do when Andrew naps & is always eager to do them. To help him realize that there were other things we could do until naptime, I would list things we were going to do for the day. "First we are going to do this, then that, then lunch, then Andrew will take a nap & you can play Legos."
This developed into Harrison wanting me to write down what we were going to do. I would ask him what things he wanted to do that day, write them on a notepad, and check them off as we did them. He loved this! So developed the question, "Mommy, what's next on our plan?"
In the last month I have tweaked this a bit. I made a weekly calendar of things we are going to do, as well as the toys we are playing with for that day. It mixes it up a bit more and reminds him of toys he doesn't always think to play with. Part of our new play plan is a scheduled reading time & play-doh. We always read to the boys, but I wanted a scheduled story time in there. Now I read to them as they are eating their lunch.
Here are a few pictures of the boys during play-doh time one day. Yes, they are in their jammies . . . sometimes jammie days are part of the plan too!
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