Many more ideas here:
Keeping Your Preschooler Occupied… coins and a piggy bank- bought or home-made.(Pringles can, slit cut in top)
Playdoh with a plastic knife, rolling pin, cookie cutters, small plastic toys, etc.
And these very helpful links:
www.angelfire.com/mo/sasschool/preschoolers.html
http://www.geocities.com/parentsworkshop/act.html (this site is down now, but thru the magic of the wayback machine at internetarchive.org, you can see it again here.
http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/preschool_activities.htm *tons* of stuff do here- you’ll never want it all, but will find plenty to keep them busy!!!
When my first two were small, I wrote down lots of ideas on index cards for those frazzled days when I needed something quick but couldn’t think for the chaos (our eldest was rather active herself!). Until just a few very short years ago I kept an index card of ideas in my wallet still for when we were traveling or out on errands and I needed some distraction for them.
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The geocities site is no longer available. Just thought I would let you know.
Thanks for letting me know. You can get it back if you copy and paste the link into the wayback machine at a archive.org.