1. Bubble Wrap
2. More Bubble Wrap when they've popped the first batch
3. Your attention
4. A stick
5. A rock
6. Seriously. Just a plain old rock.
7. A bubble bath
8. Bubbles
9. A cardboard box
10. Multiple cardboard boxes
11. A sleepover at Grandma's
12. Blowing raspberries
13. A piece of advice that they may take someday
14. The promise of getting a puppy when they're older – bonus points if you actually honour it
15. A bedtime story
16. An old, broken mobile phone that's been sat in a drawer somewhere
17. A loo roll cardboard tube
18. A fort made out of bedsheets and pillows
19. A game of hide-and-seek
20. Rubber bands
21. A pillowcase cape
22. A daisy chain
23. Cereal boxes
24. A pencil and paper
25. Paper clips
26. PRAISE
27. Your glasses
28. A hug
29. A secret handshake
30. Blu-Tack. All of the Blu-Tack.
31. The title "assistant gardener"
32. Their own patch in the garden
33. Various sounds made by their own body
34. Various sounds made by your body
35. Fistfuls of soil
36. Dumping said soil all over the garden
37. Paper to scribble on
38. Walls to scribble on
39. Literally anything to scribble on
40. Puddles
41. Staying up past their bedtime
42. Moving walkways at the airport (but who doesn't love those?)
43. Trying your shoes on
44. Toppling things over
45. A pet slug
46. (A snail will also suffice.)
47. Wine corks
48. A sibling
49. A warm, loving environment
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