Tips for autumn with children

Tips for autumn with children

After you and your little explorer have spent the whole day outside in summer, it can sometimes be hard to imagine in autumn how you can keep your toddler entertained without sun and water. To make the transition a bit easier for you, Julia from Wonderwuzz has some suggestions here on how to make a rainy autumn day exciting and varied with young children.

Wonderwuzz is a fully modular play sofa made up of eight individual parts: four seat cushions, two triangular backrests, and two rectangular armrests. Two of the four seat cushions can be connected with a zipper, allowing the sofa to be used in various ways. Additionally, there are four more play modules: slides, rollers, a rocker, a stool, and a guest bed module. With this versatile piece of furniture, children can play throughout their entire childhood, and it fits into any room. Even teenagers use it for relaxing or as a guest mattress. Wonderwuzz is made in Germany and crafted from Ökotex 100 certified materials. If you're curious, you can find more information at .

Daily schedule Option 1

Morning: Creative Fun

  • Cover the dining table with a large cloth (wax cloths are especially suitable) and equip it with painting supplies.

  • Many parents are surprised that even young children already enjoy being creative and love to draw with colored pencils.

  • With a little help, young children from 2 years old can often also handle additional craft materials such as glue, glitter, and pipe cleaners.

  • Accompany your child when necessary during the process, but also give them space to discover their own creativity.

Afternoon: Burning energy in the homemade indoor playground at home

  • Build a course with your Wonderwuzz play sofa, on and with which your little explorer can crawl, jump, and slide depending on their age.

  • The crawling course is particularly suitable for babies under one year old, where they can climb over the armrests and triangles, thereby strengthening their coordination and muscles.

  • Toddlers love to climb up the super slide again and again and slide down, or just jump around on the seat cushions.

  • Even babies enjoy the padded slides, as they do not accelerate as much as traditional slides. The little ones can slide lying on their stomachs.

Evening: Group Reading Session

  • Let your child choose two or three books and make yourselves comfortable on the play sofa.

  • Look at the pictures together and read, it doesn't matter if the children want to skip a page or read the book from back to front. ;)

  • Ask your child if they can describe the pictures in the book to promote their language skills, and please have them turn the pages themselves, which especially promotes fine motor skills in the very young.

Daily Schedule Option 2

Morning: Out into the wet

  • A walk is good for everyone, even in rainy weather!

Afternoon: Prepare the afternoon snack together

  • Almost all children love banana pancakes and are happy to help with the preparation. Here is the recipe:

  • 1 ripe, mashed banana

  • 1 egg

  • 3-4 tbsp flour (spelt flour, ground oats, or wholemeal flour)

  • Mix everything together and fry in the pan with oil

  • Prepare the pancakes together with your little explorer. Tip: Adding blueberries or raspberries to the batter is especially fun.

  • Suitable are cut-up fruit, which your children can cut depending on their age with a wavy cutter, a children's knife, or a butter knife.

Evening: Puppet Theater

  • Turn your play sofa into a stage for a puppet show and use puppets or stuffed animals as actors

  • For babies, a clever story, a cuddly toy that talks to them, hides, and makes funny noises is enough

  • Older preschoolers definitely want to participate, help your children develop a short story

Daily Schedule Option 3

Morning: Free Role-Playing

  • Let your imagination run wild and turn the play sofa into a spaceship or an ice palace.

  • Your child can take on different roles and you can experience imaginative adventures together. For example, what if you, as astronauts, have just discovered a new moon on a spaceship? Suddenly, the spaceship is attacked and must be defended with pillows! Or the ice palace is about to collapse and needs to be stabilized.

  • Tip: Sometimes it's easier to set up the play sofa the evening before (or during naptime) and surprise the children with it rather than building together

Afternoon: Building towers and playing ball

  • Sit facing your child and roll or throw a ball to each other. This trains your child's reaction time and coordination.

  • Babies find it funny when you roll the ball to them while they are on their stomachs and they have to «catch» it.

  • Build a tower with building blocks or stacking toys. Depending on your child's age, they will have a lot of fun knocking down the tower and rebuilding it.

Evening: Game Night

  • Spend the evening playing board games or card games together.

  • For young children, games such as for example are suitable. Orchard , where you play together and no one wins or loses.

  • Enjoy your time together!

These were our ideas for a varied daily schedule with young children, regardless of the weather! Of course, there are many more options, but most of the time, the little ones are less demanding than we parents. :)

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