We’re all the tired mom some days, even most days!
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Kelly Jensen shares how to be a good mother, even when you’re tired!
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Tired Mom Activities
- Heads Up App
- What’s on my bum
- Building block reusable cups
- Lazy sports coach
- Spa day for mom
- Mid-day movie in pjs
- Take kids to a movie w/recliners
- Bath time truth or dare
- Bug catching outside
- Candy taste test challenge
- Lay down hair salon
- Challenge kids to draw you while sleeping
- Individual reading at bookstore
- Mom foot massage
- Write messages in lotion on legs or back
- Go outside, close eyes, and listen to nature sounds
- Play Cinderella and let the kids clean
- Listen to Audio books or podcasts
- Don’t wake mama bear
- Draw pictures or letters on back with finger while you lay down
- Role reversal; they are parent and you the kid (they put you down with water and a snack)
- Let kids paint toenails
- Go on a bear hunt (mom hides stuff animal and they go hunting)
- Give each kid a $5 bill and hold it to the wall with their nose and no hands; First to drop loses
- Create a list of objects for kids to find
- Rainbow cleanup (first pickup red things, then orange, etc)
- Give kids exercise challenges (timed, or competition)
- Give small toddlers the vacuum hose and see how many crumbs they can find
- Play hot wheels on your back
- Play dead fish (they must lay still and you call out the floppers)
- Timed obstacles course
- Never under estimate the power of Whoopi cushions
- Blow up balloon and bounce it around the house
- Cloud watching
- Red light green light
- Simon says
- Chase a laser pointer
- Let them paint your face or legs
- Set up a still life drawing and challenge them to do it
- Talent show auditions
- Laps around the house
- Driveway Painting or chalk drawing outside
- Eye spy
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