Those with a toddler aged 12-18 months & have 1 nap a day

[Mee_Mummy]

What is your routine including times, meals, snacks, nap, bedtime routine etc.


Also what indoor activities do you do with your LO? Build a den, painting reading etc?x

 

[laura_jayne]

This is what we typically do for Abigail (shes 18 months)

8am - Get up
8.15am - Breakfast and drink
8:45am - Playtime
10am - Snack and drink
10:15am - Playtime
12.30pm - Lunch and drink
1pm - Naptime and bottle of cows milk
3pm - Playtime
4:30pm - Snack and drink
6pm - Dinner and drink
6:45pm - Bath
7:30pm - Formula (not in bed) and In the Night Garden on TV!
8pm - Bedtime

During the morning playtime sessions, we normally go out and about to the park or playgroup or in the garden or something similar.

Indoor activity wise, we do loads:

*Washing up - Fill you bowl and let LO "wash up" plastic things, Abigail loves this at the min!
*Musical instruments - Use an old quality street tin and some wooden spoons as a drum, dry pasta shapes in container for rattle
*We have some plastic balls from asda (for like £5 a bag i think) and empty them in the bath or their cot as a DIY ball pit
*Use boxes to make a little town for toys to play in

Toddlertoddler.com is a good place to get ideas (Thanks Gina!)

 

[DaisyBee]

Megans schedule has been the same for a while now.

7-8am wake have sippycup of milk, get dressed
8- 8:30 breakfast
11am lunch
12-2 nap
3:00 snack
5-6 dinner
If having a bath we try to start by 6:30-6:45
Books with sippycup of milk, brush teeth, bed 7-8pm

Megan loves books so we read a lot. Other indoor things include blocks, dollys, pillow play, organizing the lower cupboards, helping mom with emtying the dishwasher, helping fold and put away laundry, play food, play farm, balls, dancing, stickers, sometimes play dough, coloring, markers,etc but she is doing those more now than a few months back.she watches about 20-30min of tv a day if we are home most of the day.

We go outside a lot though.....sandbox, water table, baby pool, balls, sidewalk chalk, slides, running around the neighborhood, helping with the flowers, she loves watering plants, pulling weeds(grass) lol, playing with neighbors. We go to story time at the library and have playdates, go to the park, pool, soft play area, shopping.

 

[bubbles123]

For my man:
On wake up: 6ozs cows milk
8am - Breakfast
10.30am snack
Go out somewhere
12pm lunch
2pnish sleep for 30 mins to 2 hours depending
snack on wake up
5pm dinner
6pm onwards bath and 6ozs cows milk
7pm bed.
Activites: stories, hide and seak, playing with his toys, playing outside etc

 

[XfairyhopesX]

Wakes up - roughly!!! 6ish - bottle
8am - breakfast, fruit and juice
9am - bathtime and i get ready while he doddles about / sort the rabbit all this takes an hour or so!!!
10am - play / snacks
11am - 12.30ish - bottle and nap
12.30ish - Lunch
1.30ish we go out - anywhere - park / shopping / friends round etc
3.30 - 4ish - dinnertime
4.30 - 6pm playtime
6-630 - bottle and bed xxxx

 

[08marchbean]

any time between 6-7.30 wake up
7.30- breakfast
go out and about or play in garden or at home
have a snack somewhere between here and lunch
sometime between 10.30 11.30 nap or 1.5-2 hours
1ish-lunch
usually go out in the afternoon
5.30-6- tea time
bath and bed at 7.30

i dont have any bright ideas for play time sorry !! still struggeling myself!

 

[_Vicky_]

here is what we do the boys are 18 months

6-6.30 wake 7oz cows milk
7.30 breakfast and they have some highchair time (leaptops usually) while I tidy
8.30-10 bathtime - we have bubbles toys and all sorts so its really playtime in water lol
10-12pm nap time (fynn usually wakes earlier)
12.30 lunchtime
1-4 we usually go out somewhere then playtime
4-4.30pm tea
5.45 bottle and TV
6.45 Sam bed and Fynn god knows!!!! (he is still talking away in his chair as I type!)

As for activities we have just made their garden (fenced off) they have ball pit, seesaw and rocking horse and paddling pool so its all about the garden atm. We do balls/bubbles/ playing fetch with the dogs

Indoors its playing in their discovery dome tent and reading as I am working on their speech atm Fynns favourites are - walking along the window sill, taking Sams nappy off and pressing all the buttons on the TV Sams are - chuckington noisy board books, balloons and bits of paper

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[lisa9999]

Usually

Up 8am - 7oz cows milk
9am cereal
9.30 -10 normally go out, she goes to a childminder 2 days and my mums 1 day cos I work, but we go to bounce and rhyme and other classes when I'm not working, so generally out for 10.
Snack mid morn
Lunch 12.30 ish
Nap 1-2 ish
Aft snack 2.30- 3ish
Tea 4.30
7 bath bottle bed, normally asleep for 7.30ish

x

 

[Nats21]

Callum is 13 months, our day when we're at home goes like -

9am - wake up, have breakfast, get changed
10am - play with toys
11am - Has a 6oz bottle of milk
11.15am - Continues to play with toys, maybe has a walk outside
12.30pm - Has lunch and pudding
1.00pm - Has a sleep
2.30pm - Wakes up, has some water and a snack, plays with toys or in garden when its nice
4.00pm - Has a 6oz bottle of milk
4.15pm - Has a play
5.45pm - Has tea and a pudding
6.20pm - Has a play
7.00pm - Has stories/chilll out time
7.30pm - Go upstairs, has bath, has teeth brushed, changed in pjs and sleep bag
8.00pm - Has a 6oz bottle, into cot and goes to sleep

Some activites we tend to do during the day are -

jelly play
painting
cooking (cakes/cookies etc)
cornflour play
play in the garden
plays in ball pool
plays in sandpit
kick and rolls the football to each other
plays on smart trike
plays with toys in general
singing/stories
play musical instruments to music

xx

 

[aliss]

Thanks for this thread.

Mine is up always at 6am sharp and I'm struggling to find a proper naptime.

 

[Mee_Mummy]

No probs hun! I'm trying to work out how to plan my day with LO too! I'm switching him to 1 nap a day so though I'd get a general idea of what other peoples routines are. It helps me out a bit xx

 

[Mee_Mummy]

Would be nice to see more peoples routines x

 

[aliss]

We are now on a solid 1 nap routine (if you remember, we went from 2-1 nap 2 weeks ago).

6am-11am awake
11-1:30pm nap
1:30pm (sometimes 1, sometimes 2pm)-7pm bed

And he falls asleep immediately (before he fought bedtime for up to 2 hours!!!)

It works out AMAZING for us. It just took time to adjust. He chose those hours.

 

[muddles]

My LO is 15 months

7:10am Wakes up
7:30am Breakfast (I give him his milk cup with 6oz whilst I sort breakfast)
10:30am (ish) Snack
11:30am (well some point between 11:30 and 12 he goes off) Nap time
1:30pm Wakes up
1:35pm Lunch
3:30pm (ish) Snack
5:45pm Dinner
6:30pm Milk
6:50pm Bathtime
7:15pm Finish milk, brush his teeth then stories.
7:30pm Bed (usually asleep by 7:40)

He has only had one nap a day since he cut his second one at around 10 months, and he has pretty much set his routine.

Things we do inside-
-Cleaning seems to be one of his favourite things as he keeps getting a duster/his little hoover/tissue and pretending to clean.
-Read books as he loves them.
-Play with his toys (he especially loves trucks, anything musical or anything that spins).
-Put music on and do some dancing, or I sing rhymes with him.
-Playing in his tent or tunnel.
-Get a bowl of water, put a towel underneath and let him have some fun. Usually just put some of his bath toys in it.
-He also likes to help wash up (he 'finds' the sponge and waves it around everywhere soaking himself, me and the kitchen floor! ) and he likes getting plates/cups etc out so I rearranged the cupboards so he has one filled with his plastic plates, bowls, tupperware, measuring spoons, plastic stirring spoon... that he can empty.

He loves being outside digging/playing in water/on his bike/spinning his windmills, oh and he loves to try and eat dirt/stones/grass if he thinks no-one is watching however the giggle gives him away We also meet up with friends too.

 

[cupcake]

my son is almost 18 months,
he has been on one nap a day for quite some time.

wake up: anywhere btw 6am to 7:30 am ( we are working on this)
nurse
8 ish : breakfast
8:30 take older sibling to pre school in the stroller
play with toys in the lounge, help me wash the dishes, do laundry
nurse
10:30 nap time (anywhere between 1h 30 to 2h30 min)
1pm : fetch brother from daycare
1:30 lunch
2:30 play with his brother til about 3:30
4:00 crazy hour, I usually change the activity get out crayons/puzzles/play dough/beads/
5:00 park time/ visit my mom
6:00 dinner
6:30 bath time
nurse
anywhere between 7 and 7:30 bedtime

 

[Sazzoire]

Lucy is 13.5mths old... her routine when I'm not working is..

7.15 wake up, get into bed with daddy while I shower..
8.00 Breakfast with 7oz of milk
8.30 Play time
9.30-10.00 nap time for about 1.5hrs
11.20 snack
12.00 Lunch with water and fruit/yogurt
13.00 go out for afternoon...soft play/park/shopping etc
15.00 another nap
16.30 snack
16.45 play time
17.00 dinner
18.30 Bath/7oz Milk and then Bed

Activities - we just usually play together on the floor with all of her toys.... she is also practising her walking quite alot at the mo.... I have only just started to introduce crayons and a colouring book.... Lucy also loves to help empty the tumble dryer and washing machine and is particuarly interested in climbing into the diswasher.

 

[Mee_Mummy]

So do most of you mums give LO there dinner after nap? My HV said he should have dinner before his nap?! :s confused as what to do. This is the routine I have wrote up and due to start tomorrow. Please give your opinions...

7am - 8oz Cows milk.
8am - Breakfast.
8:30am - Get dressed, brush teeth etc.
9am - Go park or play group. If we stay in then building dens, tea parties, ball games, music time, dancing etc.
10:15am - Snack.
10:30 - 11:15 - Creative play.
11:30pm - Dinner.
12pm - Nap. (2 hours)
2pm - Snack.
4:30pm - Dinner.
5pm - Quiet time ie books, jigsaws, building blocks, colouring etc.
6pm - Supper
6:15pm - Bath.
6:30pm - Jammies on.
6:40pm - Read bedtime stories/quiet time.
6:55pm - Milk.
7pm - Bed.

I am hoping that after he is used to this one nap a day thing he'll hopefully sleep longer and because he is now having supper I'm hoping that will help too. At the moment he is up at 5, so tomorrow morning he will wake at 5am and will have his cows milk then and then I'll try and keep him going off that till his scheduled breakfast, if he's too hungry will give it him around 7am x

Does that routine sound ok? I thought a nap at 12 would be good because if he (eventually) wakes up at 7am it will be right in the middle of the day.

 

[NuKe]

this is VERY general, some days she doesnt get up til 9 or so! but usually...

6.30- get up, change nappy and come into bed with me to watch some peppa
7/7.30- go downstairs and have breakfast (porridge then toast)
10- snack time
12.30- lunch time then nap
(can be anything from an hour to 2.5 hours)
once she wakes we go for a walk and to the park
home, and snack time
dinner around 5.30

we fill our time with playing with toys, messing in the garden, painting, drawing, dancing!

 

[eddjanuary10]

This is Ihsan's routine

wake up - 9ish
breakfast- 9.30am
Sometimes we have gymboree or swimming in the morning otherwise its books, playing with puzzles that help with colours and numbers, bit of tv, play on his indoor trampoline, dancing with disney music cd, bubbles, colouring etc

snack time 11am ish- fruit and yoghurt usually

out 11.30 we have a huge park across the road so we go walks there alot, theres another very good park not so far where we go a few times a week to feed ducks/see the cows & horses & often have lunch there in the cafe. Sometimes we just visit relatives.

lunch- 2pm then a bf
nap- 2.30- 4pm sometimes 4.30pm

4.30-6 pm- either out doing shopping or home Ihsan helps me load washing machine, hang washing, put clothes away etc or I let him out to play on decking area where I can see him play with sand/water pit and footballs whilst I do the washing.

dinner- 6.30pm
7-8.30pm - visit family nearby, walk in park, play indoors (teddys have picnic is his fave game just now, books, he likes to find things that I hide too we go round his room and he says 'there' 'not there' lol) he will have another snack in there too like more fruit or a rice pudding or something.

Sometimes we shower in the morning if not its bath at 8.30pm then a bf then
bed- 9pm

 

[Miss_Bump]

This is usually how our day goes....

7am- awake and breastfeed
8am- breakfast
10:30- snack
11- BF then nap
1- wake from nap
1:30- lunch
3- breastfeed and/or snack
5;30- dinner
6- bath
7- story, BF then bed