When I first started quilting, my youngest daughter was 2 years old. I put a little table and chair in my quilt room and I then provided her with lots of age appropriate craft supplies, playdoh, coloring books and a crayons, etc. I just mixed it up day to day. She would spend at least an hour or more with the stuff I gave her and it gave me time to work on my quilts. Besides that time, I would quilt while she napped and again when my hubby got home and took over toddler duty.