Sunshine and a group of his friends meet almost every Wednesday for a playdate. It was very easy to arrange these in summer when the weather was good outside. We could take the kids to a big play area and they would get busy in no time. The only difficulty was convincing them to go home afterwards.
With the onset of autumn, we are in for gloom and grey and abundant rain. This has forced our playdates indoors. Yesterday was the first of those indoor playdates. There were six kids including Sunshine who were around 3 years old, give or take a few months. I thought it might be a good idea to organize some activities for them as leaving six playschoolers to play on their own could turn out to be catastrophic. So, we started our playdate with a song, my friend and fellow mom Jenny read a couple of books for the kids and finally, they were given a huge sheet of paper and crayons and felt pens to show off their artistic skills. After this, it was time for freeplay.
I have to think about new games and ideas for our future playdates. I really enjoyed it (probably more than the kids) since I love kids and it makes me immensly happy to be surrounded by them. I hope they had half the fun that I had. The biggest success for me was that they refrained from pulling each others' hair, pushing, hitting biting etc that they sometimes resort to when they get bored.
Hopefully next time, we will be able to move forward with the idea of creating a toy repository as well.
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