Quiet activities for 3 & 4 y/o boys

[playfelt]

I have thought about doing the outside time during naptime too but in an emergency when you hear/see something on the monitor that needs your attention a lot of time will be wasted - maybe too much time getting the other kids rounded up to go back into the house to deal with the younger child that it just never seemed safe to me.

Is it new activities you need or new rules for the old activities - volume of voice during naptime. They can still play with the cars but they need to keep their voices down. Banning things like active games, running, balls, etc. makes sense of course but that is a long time to make 3 year olds be still and quiet doing sit down type work.

[Inspired by Reggio]

Ya agreed Playfelt ~ I am not comfortable with having some of my children inside while others are outside specially this time of year.

I do not do quiet time activities if I have a morning napper we just play in the play with 'quieter voices' and our normal options cause well with morning naps I do not really mind if they get 'woken' cause I want to start eliminating those as soon as possible anyway

It is just afternoon nap time when I offer 'quiet stuff' cause the majority are still sleeping and well it is MY quiet/break time too and if they are up I want them sitting 'engaged' so I can be doing my stuff for afternoon prep