Grocery Game
How do you entertain 3 small children while your husband is on a 3-night camping trip? With a good game of "grocery store!" Instant fun.
I bought 2 cash registers at thrift stores for 99 cents each (I was thankful later to have 2 registers to minimize fighting over one).
We saved our food containers at McDonald's last night too so we can play "McDonald's" with this register later. Double win.
I added a grocery cart that we already had ($2 garage sale find), & a sack & basket from home...
Empty food containers that I saved up for one week
Some fake money (green construction paper cut into rectangles), old receipts, and pretend credit cards..
And, voila! Instant grocery store. Instant fun. This kept the kid's attention all day yesterday and so far all today. They've LOVED it.
The best part is when the fun wears off, I can just throw all the containers away!
Three entertained kids while daddy's away = one happy mama!!
I bought 2 cash registers at thrift stores for 99 cents each (I was thankful later to have 2 registers to minimize fighting over one).
We saved our food containers at McDonald's last night too so we can play "McDonald's" with this register later. Double win.
I added a grocery cart that we already had ($2 garage sale find), & a sack & basket from home...
Empty food containers that I saved up for one week
Some fake money (green construction paper cut into rectangles), old receipts, and pretend credit cards..
And, voila! Instant grocery store. Instant fun. This kept the kid's attention all day yesterday and so far all today. They've LOVED it.
The best part is when the fun wears off, I can just throw all the containers away!
Three entertained kids while daddy's away = one happy mama!!
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