10 DIYs For The Coolest Parents or Babysitters!

Mama and Baby Elephant

Hello everyone! Are you a parent, or a babysitter? Here are ten DIYs I have come up with to help you out with the crazy kids you might be dealing with! Let me know if these help or worked for you in the comment section, enjoy!

1.Teach your kids to hold a juice box by having them hold the side flaps that you can pull up instead of the kid squeezing the carton and spraying juice everywhere. Less messes will equal to a happier you.

2. Decorate a spray bottle with water to turn it into a "mister be gone" spray for kids that are afraid of the dark! Then just use your imagination to prove to them that the spray actually works to eliminate monsters!

3. When bathing a baby, put the baby in a laundry basket then in the tub to keep from toys floating out of reach. The holes throughout the basket let enough water in without letting any bating toys out.

4. Decorate a dollar bill with some glitter and Elmer's glue to create tooth fairy money! You can probably reuse the dollar if you are able to take it away once they forget about it. I remember my mom telling me she did that to me once!

5. Use a pool noodle on the side of the door to create a toddler jam proof door. A pool noodle, if cut in half, should be the perfect size to slide onto the side of the door, and you can choose from different colors!

6. Tie a blanket or a sheet to the bottom of the table to create a baby hammock! Please make sure the child is old enough for this and that they are not going to fall out and hurt them selves, or just use a low set table. 

7. Adding some rainbow sprinkles to healthy food will make children want to eat their greens even more! Besides, a few sprinkles won't do much and your kids will get a lot more greens into them. 

8. Have your child wrap their middle, ring and pinky finger around a wad of tissues while holding a pencil to show how to properly hold one! My mom used this trick for my younger sister who had a hard time learning this trick. 

9. Turn cleaning into a game by creating a square out of duck tape and have the child sweep everything into the square. You can have prizes at the end of the job to really motivate them to clean up!

10. Always have some bubbles with you! Bubbles are a great thing to pull out whenever a child is bored. Remember though, they will leave a residue on your wood floors if you choose to do this inside. 

Need some more everyday parenting tips? Click HERE! Thanks for reading today’s blog and I hope some of these tricks will help because let’s face it, kids are never the easiest things to deal with and everyone could use some help.