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Banana, oatmeal, flaxseed smoothie
Keep extra stock of bananas on hand and make this banana, oats, flax smoothie with almonds. It's like dessert for breakfast, and it’s definitely a smoothie you’ll want to make regularly. It’s packed with all good ingredients that your family will love, kids included. Try out this convenient and delicious smoothie with this easy recipe.
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
4 People
10 Minutes
6 Minutes
Ingredients
3/4 cup oats
2 cups milk
2 bananas
3 tsps (teaspoons) sugar(for kids)
5 tsps honey
6 almonds
1 tbsp (tablespoon) flaxseeds
Method
Step 1
Dry roast oats with flaxseeds for about 2 mins.
Step 2
Allow to cool and grind flaxseeds in a mixer.
Step 3
In a blender, add oats, ground flax, chopped banana, honey, milk, sugar(optional) and blend it until smooth.
Step 4
Add chopped almonds, spoon it into a mason jar and refrigerate.
Step 5
You can garnish with chopped almonds while serving.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories 300 Calories from Fat 50
Total Fat
6 g 9%
Saturated Fat
2 g 10%
Cholesterol
10 mg 3%
Sodium
90 mg 4%
Potassium
620 mg 18%
Total Carbohydrate
51 g 17%
Dietary Fiber
5 g 20%
Sugars
25 g
Protein
12 g
Vitamin A
2%
Vitamin C
10%
Calcium
25%
Iron
10%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Contribution – How to engage toddlers at home (during lockdown)- 42 indoor activities – Part 2
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Hope you went through the first 20 activities(out of 42 activities) for engaging your toddlers, shared in my previous post, and enjoyed the same.
If not already gone through, then click on the link just given below and enjoy with your toddlers by engaging them in any of the suggested activities .
How to engage toddlers at home (during lockdown)- 42 indoor activities – Part 1
If you already went through the 20 activities mentioned in the above link then here I am to take you through 22 more activities making the list of my ’42 at-home’ activities complete. Wohoooo!!! So let’s get started.
P.S.: Numbering is from 21 here as 20 activities have already been shared in my earlier post(link above).
21. Coin painting
If you are thinking that I made my son paint the coins then you are ‘partially correct’ . What we did is, painted the coin(s) and made impression(s) out of it on blank sheet(s). I mentioned that you guessed it ‘partially correct’ as we indirectly painted the coins too.
Suggestion
The bottle caps, softdrink cans base, water glass base, etc, whatever you think can be used for this impression painting can be used in this activity. Also kids can make different structures like a flowers on tree , bunch of grapes,caterpillar , this list goes on as per the creativity you can put in.
22. ‘Collect and count’ or ‘Count and collect’
This activity is something that is self explanatory. Just telling these naughty ones to collect/count things and then count/collect them makes it a physical activity as well a learning one. For example, I ask my son, Rishaan, to collect all his cars(big or small), put them in a queue and then count those. This activity involves his energy in collecting his toys and counting those makes him learn the number system as well.
Suggestion
This activity can be played with various items to give the child a variety of options like asking them to assemble different toys they have, kitchen utensils can also be used here, balls, balloons, coins, bottle caps,…list is endless as per the availability of stuff at home and your creative thinking. Also this activity can be used to make them learn colours, opposites, numbers, alphabets, etc.
23. Imaginary Cooking
This is something kids love to do. Basically, when I cook in the kitchen my kid pretends cooking in the room with some of the kitchen utensils or his own pretend cooking toys.
He cooks different imaginary dishes and serves dishes either to his mommy(me) or to his toys.
Suggestion
You can get your kid a kitchen set to make this pretend game more happening for them.
24. Cleanup
What could be better than making them clean up the mess of the house they made while playing? Believe me this activity is something they will not even enjoy but even they would learn to discipline/ organize themselves. For our little one we have made it a habit for him to clean up once he is done playing with his toys, that is, we ask for his help to put his toys (from all around the room) in his toy box.
Suggestion
You can make him involved in various other clean up activities at home like cleaning of bed sheets, etc.
25. Helping in hanging clothes:
This is something I would recommend not just as an engaging activity for kids but also to make them a part of the household chores which we do. My little one helps me in taking out the clothes from the washing machine into a bucket and thereafter helping in putting them out in sun for drying. This gives us together our me time along with giving me an ease to complete my task with him help.
Suggestion
Putting the clothes to be washed, into the w/m can be another engagement for them.
26. Washing n cleaning toys
Let’s pamper their toys too today along with pampering them.
Water is generally a love for every kid. So it is with my son. He likes to instruct others to take bath (though I have to cook so many stories to get him ready for bath) so I generally give him a small tub of water with bit of his body wash and all his toys are made ready to take this bubble bath.
He loves this activity of washing followed by drying these and this keeps him occupied for an hour atleast (with least investment of my time).
Suggestion
Trying out this activity with making them dip some utensils or even some little clothes of their will give them a variety for repeating this task after every two three days.
27. Hurdle jump
Jumping is always a fun activity for kids so why not to give them a twist to just a plain jumping fun. I put the pillows/cushions etc on the floor and make it a hurdle jump for him. This just not improves his jumping skills but also helps in sending instructions to his mind for creating an execution plan. As an option I even lie on bed and myself be a hurdle for him (just to give him a variety hurdle ) and he just lives jumping over me.
Suggestion
If you are yourself being a hurdle like me just take the precautions accordingly as the kid can hit you anywhere so be ready with the aid浪. The fin part in thi for him will just be that he is jumping over you.
28. Round and spin
My son is really a fussy eater so for every food eating task, I give him a brownie point which is, giving him rounds, after which he spins. He loves to do this rounds and spinning activity.
Suggestion
No suggestion from my end here. If you have a one please write below in comment sectionwoukd love to hear and implement that
29. Musical chair
Who would have not heard and enjoyed played this game? We all would have, right??
Music and chair is all what the kids love individually so why not to combine these and make a fun activity for them. Play the music and ask the young one to sit as the music stops, as simple as that.
Suggestion
Rishaan(my son) loved this game initially but then he got bored so as an alternative I make his toys play this game with him and now he loves it too.
30. Moulding Clay/wheat dough into different shapes
Moulding is such a fun and learning activity. We have a clay box wherein different dinosaurs shapes have been given. My son likes dinos so he loves putting the clay into the moulds and giving his favourite dino a proper good shape.
I even give him the wheat dough to make variety of shapes. He recently made a Caterpillar out of it.
31. Hand impression
Just give them colors(liquid/safe) and ask them to dip their hands into it and make hand prints, and nothing would be more fascinating for them as playing this way with colors.
Suggestion
Use both hands to make figures like butterfly and the creativity to be blended is per the level your mind can run.
32. Making animals out of cotton roll
Kids generally like touching soft items and that is why most are attracted by soft toys. For my Rishaan cotton is what fancies him and he makes different shapes out of it giving it names like cow, bird, tiger, lion all these items are what he is able to make ( as per him again, though the real shape is something you need to keep guessing until he breaks the secret character name).
We even play with activity such as drawing any figure on sheet and then sticking plain/coloured cotton to it with glue stick to make it different and interesting.
33. Pouring water in glasses
Believe me this is such an engaging activity plus this also increases their concentration and eye hand co-ordination. Along with this it leads to hours of them in spending time to accomplish their tasks. My boy loves this task when I give him 4-5 glasses to be filled with his water bottle.
This is really a good engaging and engrossing activity.
34. Inflatable dinosaur Punching/kicking bop bag
Though after few days he was bored out of his punching dino bag plus still initially this kept his busy and he loved being a boxer while playing with him. You know the best part what I like about this is, when I say ‘and the winner is Rishaan’, the sparkle in his happy eyes is really worth it.
35. Creating stories
Creating stories us one of the best way to make kids imaginative and what works the best is when you make them create their own and allow their imagination to have more wings. My son likes creating and telling stories. He will make different characters he heard or saw and then his imagination would know no bound.
36. Making/playing drums out of kitchen
utensils bowls n spoons
Musical instruments are the ones which all kids love and when it’s something which is available at home then it pocket friendly and innovative too. My kid bangs glasses, plates, bowls, etc, whatever he thinks can make sound plus he even can differentiate on the various sounds around us by this activity.
37. Hide n seek
Not something very different as we all must be doing this with our kids but just putting it up in my list as at times we forget things which we usually do so what are you waiting for, come on kids, let’s play, ready or not here I come.
38. Memory game
This is something which is not only creative, enjoyable but also will enhance the memory of the lil ones. Just take few toys of your kid which they frequently play with, place them on a table/floor, ask the lil one to take a glance at all. Then ask him to close his eyes, put a pillow cover or cloth onto it and take a toy out. Now remove the cloth and ask the kid to see and recall what’s missing. He would love to play this memory teaser.
Suggestion
This can be played with any item available at home. To make it more interactive you can even ask the kid to play your part of hiding and you guessing and recalling the missing item.
39. Magic show
As the name suggests,its magic . See some simple tricks from various you tube channels and play those with your lil ones. You can even just in a jiffy of seconds hide any item even I front of them and say “aabra ka daabra here it cone” and the sparkle in their eyes will seriously take it as a magic.
40. Treasure hunt hiding letters in alphabet mat
We have an alphabet mat at home, which can be assembled dessembled. So we play treasure hunt with it by hiding the letters at some places(generally I prefer places where Rishaan frequently visits) and then I start giving him clues, for instance, if I hide it in his toy box so I will say that mumma has hidden it in a box where all your toys are kept, and so on to help him guessing.
This helps his thinking ability and widen his area of search and thoughts.
Suggestion:
This could be played with number of items at home but prefer things of your kids choice so that he takes interest in the same.
41. Ringa Roses
Most of us would have played this game in our childhood but generally in this age of digitization and variety we tend to forget this fun and entertaining game. I too didn’t remember it and one of my friend during our evening walk time made me remind of the same(when she urged our kids to play it). Rishaan liked it and since then whenever we feel like playing something different as the substitute of jumping and singing we go for ‘Ringa Ringa Roses’ and the benefit is now Rishaan learnt one more new song .
42. Holi water gun or water gun spray
Kids generally love playing in/with water and this is the reason why this one is of Rishaan’s favourite game. I at time fill his water gun with water and make him stand at the window facing garden area. He just sprays the water on the plants in the garden and loves taking to the birds and trees around. This serves the gardening purpose as well as the kids engagement too.
So, here is the end of this long continued post. Thank you for staying connected and reading it and giving your time. Hope you liked it.
For all the activities mentioned in my two posts do let me know in the comment section below if you are already doing any of these activities with your little one or the any other way you do the same activity.
Also please do share any activity other than the ones listed above, which you might be engaging your kid in. Would really love to add those to my kid’s activities list as well.
If you like my post please do write your feedback below in the comment section and also share the same with other parents so that it can be of help to them too.
Do let me know on any other topic you would like me to write about on parenting, would really love to do that.
See you soon in my next blogpost all you lovely readers out there.
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