What do I do with my littlest?

I just stick her in her pillow case & tell her to stay there.

But, sometimes she gets out.

Just kidding!

Here's some of the things I keep her occupied with:

This set is great! I just give her a card & she matches what's on the card with the little butterfly pieces. Sometimes she just sits and plays with the pieces too.

This one is my favorite. She will sit forever lacing these (some parts of this are very easy, others require a little more skill though). She likes to take my lacing apart too. A lot of time she'll just sit and play pretend with the horses.

(sorry this picture is blurry) These are just what she calls her ABC's. She's been playing with these since she first turned two. I have her take out all of the blue ones since those are the easy (just ABC's, not phonics) tiles. And she just goes through & names them on her own. Sometimes if I'm not too busy I'll sit with her and ask each letter like doing flash cards (we're working now more on sound than the name of the letter). She finds her letters for her name, etc. These keep her busy for a little while.

Yes I do realize this picture is sideways. I couldn't figure out how to switch that. Anyway, sometimes if I'm really not busy I will sit and do a workbook with her. These are all VERY easy. Either just coloring a picture a certain color, tracing a letter, or circling which item is bigger. She circles well and knows her colors, I help her with her tracing- but really all of these require close supervision.

PLAYDO! The ultimate in fun learning. :-)

And, of course sometimes she just plays! (the bottom basket is for board books, so she can chose a book every day before naptime.)

With all of these I always give her the choice of what she's going to do for "school" that day. She usually stays out of trouble now that I have set things up for her to keep busy with.

That's what Pickles is usually up to while I'm busy with Superkid's school.