Ok. Now you have a list of audiobooks to try and the questions I’ve been getting are: “what do you use to play the audiobooks?” and “what do the kids do while they are listening?”

We have an old iPod and an old iPhone that are always available for using for a book, and the kids know how to add audiobooks using my iPad as well. Every once in a while we all listen together using my phone. We also get discs from the library and both kids have cd players in their rooms so they can listen that way as well.

The iPods are great because they can move around the house, put them in their bike basket or go outside with headphones.

My kids are multi-taskers and always have something to work on or play with while they are listening to books. Here are some of their go-to activities:

Bike riding
Legos
Puzzles
Watercolor painting
Matching up pairs of socks
Magnatiles
Finger knitting
Playdough
Perler beads
Whiteboard writing
Origami
Brio trains
Friendship bracelets

I listen to books in the car, while I’m gardening, walking, folding laundry, washing dishes, cleaning the preschool and while I’m knitting. I don’t give myself much time to sit down and read printed paper books so I like to get my reading time in during the day while I’m getting things done.