Watching four kids over the summer, cheap, long lasting ideas?

Q. I am watching four kids over the summer, 6,8,10 and 12 year old. 3 boys and 1 girl. I will be living with the kids while watching them. What are some things I could do with them? Also keep in mind that gas is going to be $5/$6, so I'm trying to do as little bit of driving as possible. Thanks in advance!

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I would not focus my attention on entertaining the kids. They will entertain themselves - playing with their toys, playing outside, watching tv if that is okay... You are there to watch them, not to entertain them. Obviously a trip to a park, a swimming pool, a picnic, a hike...are going to be fun and you should do something like that every week or two...but these kids don't normally have a games master scheduling fun activities every hour of the day and they don't need one now.

what are good travel toys for my 17 month old?

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We are going to the beach this summer its going to be a 6 hour drive. I Know we are going to have to make some stops to stretch and such but I need good car travel toys for my daughter to play with. So if any one has links to toy sites or names of toys that are good for traveling please send them.

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When our son was around that age we purchased one of those kids trays that go over their lap that you can put paper and color on. We bought it at Toys R Us, for about $10. The large sized leggo's help, and so does a good ole DVD player with Baby Einstein movies (This is the only time I will put my little one in front of the TV. Get some kid CD's with songs like the Alphabet song, and all of the classic kid movies. Lastly, McDonalds is a GREAT place to get out. You can get a snack and your little one will get to see other kid's. Good Luck and drive safe!

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How many toys are too many or not enough? To raise their intelligence without spoiled them?

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Q. How many toys should I get for my children?

Many as they want? Or just keep it few? I am not worry about the costs but I am worry about what best for children and their future. We all knows that toys is purpose to increase their intelligence skills. For children age a year? What about in next 10 years? Get many as I can? Or not?

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I think it's really a matter of what you define as toys. Here's my example, My oldest nephew was 8 or 9 years old and GI Joe was the big thing for Christmas that year. So he got a ton of GI Joe stuff, I bought him a microscope, that's not exactly a toy, it was an in expensive one about $40 or so. By summer, he had a toy box full of GI Joe stuff that he rarely touched, but he was still taking the scope out almost every day to look at things. I think it really depends on the kid and what you define as toys. Oh yeah and that microscope has now been passed to the third child in the family. I think the 4 almost 5 year old great nephew needs a telescope this year. Nope that's not really a toy either.

How to keep your kids entertained over the summer by purchasing an inflatable swimming pool?

How to keep your kids entertained over the summer by purchasing an inflatable swimming pool

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Oh hey look. This time you forgot to answer your own question using the same username in order to spam the site. Toys are great ways to keep kids entertained and you can find tons at Sears, Target, Walmart, Swim Outlet, etc...

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