I’m a mom – I created a super cheap and fun learning activity for my kid with three simple items

RAISING children means constantly finding ways to keep them entertained. Little kids love being active, and if you leave them with nothing to do for too long, they often create an unwanted mess in your home. A mom who goes by @HandsOnFamily on TikTok is known for her useful parenting hacks and DIYs for children. […]

RAISING children means constantly finding ways to keep them entertained.

Little kids love being active, and if you leave them with nothing to do for too long, they often create an unwanted mess in your home.

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A mother created an educational game for her son using three common household items[/caption]

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She said her son loved filling in the blanks[/caption]

A mom who goes by @HandsOnFamily on TikTok is known for her useful parenting hacks and DIYs for children.

She created a game that both entertains her young son and benefits his writing skills.

You only need three common items to build the game: a piece of cardboard, a Ziploc bag, and a dry erase marker.

“I have a three-year-old who loves writing his name,” she began.

“So, I created this tracing activity using a cardboard and a Ziploc bag.”

All she did was write his full name, Thomas, at the top of the cardboard piece using a sharpie.

She then wrote his name several more times below it, but with letters missing in each row.

The piece of cardboard then went into a Ziploc bag, and her son began to fill out the missing letters and trace the others with a dry erase marker on the bag.

“By using dry erasers on the Ziploc bag, he’s able to wipe it and reuse it as many times as he wants.”

As for another useful parenting hack to prevent messes in the home, a mother on the TikTok account @Fawn_Designs shared the way she gets her children to clean up after themselves.

“If you want your kids to happily put things away, and for the load to be equally shared—cause usually it’s consistently the same person doing all of the cleaning…

“Pick a mystery item, and whoever picks that item up and puts it away in the right spot wins a prize.”

This hack will likely convince kids to clean up as many toys as possible in the hopes that they grab the winning one.

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The dry erase marker is easy to clean off, and the plastic bag is reusable[/caption]