Are you tired of your children complaining they are bored when they are home on vacation? Here are five play ideas to entertain your children. These activities are suited for older toddler through the younger elementary children. Check out these five links to discover fun ways to play with your children.
1. Bowl Indoors! Use hard candy as a bowling ball and marker caps as pins. If you don't have those on hand, just scrunch up some leftover wrapping paper for a ball and line up toilet paper rolls as pins. You will definitely SCORE big with your kids when you bowl indoors with them.
2. Play Post Office! Gather an assortment of paper, envelopes, crayons, stamps, and stickers, and you're all set for post office. Save a big box from the recycling bin, and turn it into a mail box. You can even bang out some Thank You cards for Christmas presents while playing post office.
3. Make Porridge! Get out a few bowls, spoons, water, and oats. Allow your child to whip up his own culinary creation. We tied this activity into the story, Goldilocks and Three Bears, but it's not a necessary element of exploring in the kitchen.
4. Exercise with Balls! Get the kids moving inside. Balls aren't only for outdoor play.
5. Enjoy Hide and Seek! Add a twist to this classic game by involving your child's favorite stuffed animals and dolls. Make it educational by adding numbers.
3 comments:
Love this! Especially play post office -- my girls can do that for HOURS!! :-) I'll be tweeting....
Thank you, Valerie! Have you done a cardboard post office yet at Frugal Family Fun?! Thank you for the tweet!
Great ideas! Although I have solved the majority of that excess energy problem for the kids with my microscope (the one I used in college). It's a really great way to keep them preoccupied while learning. They just can't wait to put everything on the slides (even if it's just yarn).
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