How-to

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Question 1: What are some activities for a toddler when you are teaching two other students their math lessons?

My comment: One favorite activity that I always used to keep a toddler busy for a LONG time was playing with macaroni. This activity comes cheap, too. Grab an old spaghetti strainer and wooden spoon from the kitchen cabinet. Sit your toddler on a blanket with a bag of uncooked noodles and let him stir in the pot, dump them out and start all over again. The rule is, though, she must stay on the blanket. When it is clean up time, we gather the corners of the blanket and pour all the noodles back in a plastic sack for next time. Meanwhile, the other two finished the math lessons. And, oh, remind the toddler not to eat the uncooked noodles. ;0) Happy teaching!

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