Then, challenge them to find other household materials to make music with! Lay out nine cards on a table and give your child five minutes to memorize the cards. Turn them over and ask your child to remember where they saw specific cards. Materials : pots, pans and utensils; kid-friendly recipes ; plus a camera to film your show. Set up a mock cooking show with your child to teach them safe, basic cooking skills and help them develop a love for cooking.
Hide a prize somewhere in your house. Then give your child subtle clues to find it, either out loud or in a homemade treasure map! Materials : books use this list to help you get started ; a comfortable place to enjoy a good read. Motivate your kids to develop a love of literature as they advance through their learning journey.
Then play reading games to help them love it even more! Materials : magic set or rope, cards and coins. Tip: Give them a head start with one of these five easy magic tricks for kids. Materials : music try this kid-friendly playlist ; space to dance. Use items around the house to mark lines on the floor, then have your child work their way through various activities in the obstacle course.
Help develop kids' balance and motor skills by showing them how to walk straight along taped floors or folded blankets. You can even challenge them to do some easy and safe balance beam tricks. Here's a time-honored and fun activity for kids of all ages. Try using painter's tape or large pieces of cardboard and colored markers to create a hopscotch game indoors. Blow up several balloons and toss them in the air.
Ask kids to tap the balloons toward other players to keep them from touching the ground. Not only is it a blast for kids, it also improves hand-eye coordination! Not only is it a fun way to get the body moving, regular yoga practice also reduces stress and builds a sense of well-being for kids. Materials : tube socks or a circular piece of fabric.
Add an extra challenge to traditional races. Mark two separate areas in your home with tape. Then call land, air or sea and get your child to jump in that specified area. If they jump in the wrong place, they have to run to a different area and back to continue playing the game.
Line up toilet paper rolls and empty water bottles. Then have kids throw rolled-up socks to knock over these soft targets. Hula hooping is a great way for kids to get some heart-healthy exercise. Once they know the basics, they can start learning fun hula hoop tricks!
Create makeshift bowling lanes with painter's tape or rolled-up blankets. Use empty plastic bottles and balls to knock them over. Set a timer to keep them moving! When one seeker finds a hider, they work together to find other hiders. Another fun alternative is to ask one person to hide while everyone searches for that person together. Put your chairs in a circle, with one less chair than the amount of people playing.
While the music plays, everyone dances or runs around the chairs. When the music stops, everyone must find a chair to sit on. The only person who doesn't have a chair to sit on is out of the game. Whisper a single word or short phrase in the person's ear next to you. They repeat it to the person seated beside them and so forth. Once it reaches the last person, they announce the word or phrase even if it's distorted. Parents and kids dance and play together until someone calls "freeze.
Materials : Pictionary game or a pad of paper and pens, plus a timer. This well-known game is played between two people or groups. One player draws an image, while the others try to guess what they drew within the time limit. Seat everyone in a circle. Pass a ball or potato around as music plays. When the music stops, the person holding the potato leaves the game. The last person left wins! It is then up to the other players to ask various questions in order to guess what the object is.
The catch is that all questions must be answered with a simple "yes" or "no" with the aim to figure out the mystery object in less than 20 questions. HOW: Players are divided into two teams, with at least two people on each time. Team one is invited "on stage" you don't actually need a stage! If the person in the hot seat can keep a straight face for the full two minutes, they pick up a point for their team, but if they crack under the pressure the points go the budding comedians on the other team.
HOW: One player thinks of an object that they, and all the players, can see around them and then declares: "I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with It is then up to the other players to try to guess what the first player saw.
TAG WHAT: This classic children's chasing game is also fun for adults and is a perfect excuse to get a little exercise outside during the summer. Take the items you found on your last nature walk, and use them to create multi-textured art. Glue flowers, sticks and sand to a piece of construction paper. Inspire a future decorator or architect, and design a dream house out of cardboard.
Create colorful bracelets and necklaces for friends and family out of colored thread. Get out the face-painting kit , and make crazy faces on each other. Make paper footballs and see who can make the most touchdowns. Set up an indoor obstacle course. Try some easy, kid-friendly yoga stretches. Gather objects from around the house pots, spoons, paper towel tube, etc. Look up popular YouTube dance videos for kids and follow along with the choreography. Play musical cushions, just like musical chairs, but using cushions spread out on your living room floor.
Gather around the fireplace and sing camp songs. Try some simple science experiments. Create a touch-and-feel box by cutting a hole in an old shoebox and filling it with different items that your child will be able to identify by feel.
Make your own bookmarks for storytime. Practice chemistry that smells nice by making your own perfume. You only need three things. Do this fire craft with watercolors — just add oxygen.
Learn how to sew, and make colorful pom poms. Turn your family room or play room into a riding toy racetrack. Make and blow bubbles that are safe for indoor use.
Fill a balloon with a little sand using a funnel, and blow it up halfway to make a fun ball to play with. Play one of these hands-only games. Print out your own Bingo cards and play. Try a concentration game by setting up a group of stuffed animals. Whip up this quick DIY matching game with caps or lids and play. Use play dough, rigatoni and straws to practice stacking and building.
Using sheet paper, make an origami fortune teller. Construct an indoor sandcastle using paper towel rolls and miscellaneous cardboard and construction paper. Make binoculars out of TP rolls and personalize them with art supplies. Create snowflakes with scissors and a sheet of paper. Paint or draw a picture on cardboard, cut it into shapes and create your own puzzle. Create your own paper beads out of magazines for a necklace or bracelet.
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