- Bake with them! Let them stir and crack things and layer things.
- Have them put on a fashion show. By the time they pick their outfits, practice their walk, and pick the music this could take a full afternoon.
- Organize those toys you've been putting off forever
- Create tape art. Put tape down, paint, peel it up.
- Board Games
- Decorate a card and send to a family member
- Ice chip (freeze a toy in an ice block and let them chip away to get it out)
- Thread string through pasta noodles to improve fine motor skills
- Encourage them to put on a play
- Draw letters, shapes, numbers, in shaving cream
- Card Games
- Make fruit popsicles
- Play grocery store with items from your pantry
- Play in a sticker book
- Turn off the lights and play with glow sticks
- Create a scavenger hunt around your house, giving clues to find items.
- Play follow the leader adding in jumps, skips, hops... whatever!
- Put them inside a box with crayons, let them go crazy
- Fold the hundred toilet paper rolls we are going to go through into shapes and turn them into stamps.
- Balloon volleyball
- Doddle on a doodle mat
- Make towers with paper/plastic cups
- Play I Spy
- Look through their baby book
- Hide and Seek
- Label sight words around your house such as clock, refrigerator, sink, shower
- Homemade pizza
- Build a fort
- Throw a dance party
- Bubble party! No one is really too cool for bubbles. This one is on sale!
- Glow party These are 53% off!
Technology Resources:
- Turn your artwork into 3d models with Quivervision
- Get in a workout with Go Noodle
- Add sounds to your reading with Novel Effect
- Practice using a computer onHappy Clicks
