There were many activities:
COOKING (no stove here) –
Preparing fruit and cutting up veggies (with
a plastic knife and seeing who could come up with the most unusual plate
display)
Making fruit juice combinations or
smoothies (all they had to do was dump in fruit and other ingredients and push
a button). Then drinking them as is or freezing them into ice cubes or pops.
Making egg and tuna salad (helping to cut
up the eggs or stirring in the tuna and adding cut up celery, onions and mayo).
ARTS AND CRAFTS –
Drawing and painting
Making playdough
Decorating paper cups and plates
Creating costumes out of large paper
bags
WATER SPORTS –
Getting into the bathtub to cool off
Floating boats and other toys in bathtub
races
PLAYDATES –
A lifesaver when they got bored with me
and one another’s company.
READING –
Letting the kids chose their favorites
Writing and illustrating their own.
While we were all happy to get out to
the park and the playground when the weather improved, we enjoyed the activities
and the unexpected time we spent together.
Try a few of my tricks and share any
you’ve come up with.
Kathy Ann Brodsky, LCSW is a New York and New Jersey licensed social worker, adoptive mom and advocate for ethical adoption practice. Through her private practice and agency affiliations, she has prepared thousands of adoption homestudies, counseled expectant, birth, pre/post adoptive parents and adopted persons, as well as trained professionals to work with adoptive families. She was Director of the Ametz Adoption Program of JCCA and a member of the Advisory Board for POV’s Adoption Series and the Adoption Advisory Board of Path2Parenthood, She is currently on the Adoption Professional Advisory Council of HelpUSAdopt , a member of the Advisory Board of the Family Equality Council and active in the Adoptive Parents Committee in New York. Her blogs and written contributions can be seen throughout the Internet, including her BLOG and as Head Writer for ADOPTION.NET She was named an “Angel in Adoption” by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption in 2001. You can reach her directly
