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What are your favorite things to do with your child who is 3? What are his or her favorite things to do with you?
JP and I love singing together, Take Me Out to the Ballgame and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
I love reading books to him...he likes it but doesn't love it - yet  .
He loves to act like an animal (usually a dog) and have me take care of him by giving him water in a bowl, walking with him on a leash (a long ribbon around his belly)...I can't say I love this game, but he's cute  .
What about you?
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Last year when my daughter was three, she loved (and still loves) to do fingerplays, ring games, and singing. She also enjoyed having me read picture books. Karen
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Too funny, my 2.5 yr old LOVES to be a dog! We do lots of pretend, lots of reading, playing in the sandbox, watering flowers and the grass, painting (briefly - only interested for about 5 min), going for walks, coloring - crayons, colored pencils, markers 
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My almost 3yo loves the usual singing, tickling, dancing, going on walks to throw rocks in the water, etc. But what he likes to do most with me is his bird cards.
We have to do them. every. day. period.
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pipandpuddy wrote:
Last year when my daughter was three, she loved (and still loves) to do fingerplays, ring games, and singing. She also enjoyed having me read picture books. Karen
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Help me out, Karen. What are ring games? Thanks for reminding me to go find our Hand Rhymes book,
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Too funny, my 2.5 yr old LOVES to be a dog!... markers
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I'm with you, Marcia!
lapazfarm wrote:
But what he likes to do most with me is his bird cards.
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What bird cards? Sounds like something *I* would like!
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They are just a set of matching cards with photos of birds on them. We have to go through them several times a day so he can name them and match them. Really, it is a great game and he knows SOOOO many birds now by site that I am amazed. But. I do get a bit tired of it sometimes.
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My 3 yo likes changing her clothes all day, every day. She also likes to color, paint, swing, sing, dance, be the mommy, and whatever my DS likes to do.
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Theresa - sounds like my 4 y.o. with Mary Memory. We must play this each day, often, over and over again...
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With me:
Coloring
Sitting in a fort and telling stories
Wiping down cupboards
Sorting hair accessories
Going through my jewelry box
Going through button box/talking about the buttons (this is my favorite....for some reason it's very relaxing to me)
Singing songs ("I'm a little teapot" was her fav)
Dancing (I probably need to do more of this from the looks of my hips   )
Brush my hair
Her favorite things that I don't usually participate in:
Dress up
Playing in the bathtub
Pouring/measuring with water, sand, flour
Play with dolls
And, WHAT is with the DOG-THING??? My girls all do this with each other. They LOVE to play "Dog?" Does EVERY child like this?
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Ring games are games like Ring around a Rosie, Oats and Beans and Barley Grow, Oranges and Lemons, etc. I usually do these with my two or three youngest children. When I was growing up, this type of game was still very common. Sadly, you seldom see them played anymore. Hand clapping games are also a lot of fun (Miss Mary Mack, etc.). I have enjoyed relearning the ones that I knew as a child. Karen
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My almost 3 year old son doesn't do the dog thing (I remember doing that an entire summer vacation when I was little, though!), instead he pretends to be "Little Kapaw" (he calls Grandpa "Kapaw") and Daddy has to be "Big Kapaw". I'm Grandma, his baby brother is Rylee (his cousin) or Ashley (his aunt). Oh, come to think of it, he does pretend to be Jeffrey, the neighbors' dog, in which case we all have names from their family.
His very favorite thing is walking around our neighborhood, naming every type of car he sees...he knows every single one, which seems very strange to me...but he loves it! Honda, Porsche, Mini Cooper, Subaru, Toyota, all of them!
He also loves buying a lollipop at the store and then walking around "showing the same thing"...which means holding it up to various flowers to find matching colors. He loves this game he invented.
Then, there's books, baking, cleaning with me, and driving his toy cars. Oh, and "picking plants", as in weeding. Also, much running around the house to hide from the "dragon" (his 15 month old brother).
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Well mine's two and half, but he loves to play in the garden and visit the kitchen, to help me cook (and to occasionally attempt it on his own much to my dismay ), to play in the bathtub, and to romp aroud non my bad while I lay there...tickling him, talking to him, reading a book, giving him rides on my feet, legs, back...basically being a human jungle gym...oh, and he loves to call Granny on the phone. It is the easiest distraction technique right now...I hope my mil doesn't stop answering the phone .
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Angie Mc wrote:
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Go running in matching pink baseball caps. Even when I was 9 months pregnant with Joseph we took the occasional jog around the block. She asks for this much more often than I can go, sadly.
She also wants me to ride bikes with her (She rides. I walk behind). She has a red Radio Flyer tricycle that I just replaced a wheel on today, so we're back in business. 
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My 3 yo loves to help me water the flowers.
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My 3yo son love his wooden train tracks and spends hours almost everyday playing trains. He also loves to ride his trike, go for jogs in the stroller, push his sister in the stroller, help cook, read books, go on pretend camping trips, building with blocks and then demo-ing the house with his excavator, and cut paper with scissors.
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SuzanneG wrote:
And, WHAT is with the DOG-THING??? My girls all do this with each other. They LOVE to play "Dog?" Does EVERY child like this? |
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Mine liked to play kitty-cats instead.
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The current fav activity of my 3 yo is to put on gloves and go work on his "John D" tractor like "Papa."
Yesterday they were baling hay and he got to ride with him all.day.long. for *real* and he was in heaven.
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Collect and sort, collect and sort, collect and sort!
Sing all the time, or start string lessons, or both.
Play in the pool.
Imagine...
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Play baseball in the yard..for hours and hours and hours..and he is a very talented slugger - so guess who has to run all around the yard and into the neighbor's yards .. oh well - I guess I have to get exercise somehow...thank goodness for older siblings and patient daddy...
Also - he likes me to read to him and play card and board games
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in addition to the above, latest interests:
all things bugs, of course,
collecting & washing rocks outside,
washing his tricycle with the hose,
watering flowers,
painting (loves it),
hammering golf tees into hard clay,
helping wash & dry dishes
PBSKids website,
"going on adventures"
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