Ya I'm one of those moms. When we have to wait at anytime I take it as a chance for a new expierence so I've compiled a small list of fun things we do when we have to wait in the dr. Office.
Waiting room.
1. There's always a movie
2. There's always lollipops well take a stack of cards with you grab a few lollipops like the amount of kids you have. Nothing crazy and play spoons the card game with the lollipops.
(Spoons is where you take a stack of cards give each member 4 hold the stack and slowly go through the stack picking the cards you want to replace your cards with and passing the remaining to the next player, first person to get 4 grabs a lollipop and then everyone grabs as fast as possible. Each round subtract a lollipop when a player gets out they can have theirs)
3. Go through the magazines and play I spy. Depending on the age of your kids you can make it easy or hard. Aka
I spy a baby wearing pink, I spy something pink, I spy a letter a, or I spy something that starts with the letter b.
4. Read a book.
5. Ask the nurses for coloring pictures and crayons. Most pediatrics centers have these. To make time take longer number or add a small color to each area and challenge the child to put the proper color in the proper area.
6. Name art. On the back of the paper put your child's name in bubble or block letters make funky designs in each letter and go crazy.
By this time hopefully you've made it into a room.
1. Our Favorite thing to do is to use the disposable dr. Tools to play doctor.
2. Make glove animals. These entertains for a while!
3. Read a book.
4. Our doctor office usually has a mural of some type in the room so we usually take a minute and ask questions.
What's your favorite thing about this?
What kind of things do you see?
Where would you usually see this?
...etc tell me about the picture.
5. Draw on the bed sheet. Lol yes i said it. I usually have a highlighter or a pen and we Decorate the paper bed sheet to surprise the doctor.
6. Try using paper pamphlets that are in there to fold into airplanes..etc
7. Sometimes my daughter takes a stuffed animal and we use disposable dr. Tools to play dr. On it.
8. Try to play a floor game on the tiles.
Can you step on every tile and tell me how many they are. Can you step on every other tile? Can you walk on them criss cross? Diagonal?
Hopefully when your done, you've made it a fun expierence for your kids and since they won't do it everyday it should be fun. As well as helped with the wait times expierenced.
