79. Put on bathing suits and go swimming in your tub.
80. Make a play. Read a book, give out parts gather costumes and put on a play.
81. Let your kids make their own music video! Write a song practice dress up diffrent every verse or so.
82. Paint wine bottles and turn into a beautiful flower vase
83. Color sand paper and iron on to tshirts. Be sure to out a towel over so your don't mess up your iron.
84. Collect broken crayons bake and make new crayons
85. Use old board games that are missing parts to make a new board game don't forget to write down some rules.
86. Card games.
87. Throw. Pretend birthday party. Get balloons music bake a cake and wrap some of your kids old toys.
88. If you have multiple kids... sit in a circle let one kid go change something small about their selves and let them guess what changed.
89. Doggie doggie wheres your bone?
90. Once again for multiples play charades
91. Play guess the picture draw and let kids guess
92. Play hangman.
93. Make sidewalk chalk.
94. Make bath crayons out of soap. Pintrest/google
95. See who can find the most interesting missing item ie in/under couch, bed, closet etc.
96. I spy I find. I spy something red and round so they could bring you a red ball or a red apple. Etc
97. Simon says
98. Apple toss you toss a ball and name something that starts with letter your on when you catch go through alphabet.
99. Hot potatoe/pass the pickle
100. Play bingo if you don't have boards make some if you have young kids do shapes and colors
101. Use yarn to turn area into a spider Web and try to get through without touching. Remove all breakable items!!
102. Shadow puppet show
103. Put 1 of all shoes you have in a pile Hide their matches through house. Have kids pick 1 shoe at a time in pile and find its match. Helps kids learn patience.
104. Build bird nest from paper, string, stick and or moss with glue and a ball. Oil ball before hand.
105. Use yarn, ball, glue to make a basket. OIL Ball Before.
106. bubble wrap play. Let kids jump, bounce and pop! Even play a movement game on it.
107. Get boxes turn them into mail boxes. Use envelopes label with shapes, colors, or zip codes matching mailboxes and have kids deliver mail. :)
108. Use a rubber glove fill with water or milk and teach children how to milk a cow :)
109. Revamp puzzles. By putting them together and painting. Make your own by coloring on cardboard and painting then cut.
110. Laser tag. Kids wear white. Use dollar store layers to play tag. Wear protective Google or be sure to tell kids do not point at eyes or face!!! You can do this in dark and replace lights in a big room with black lights make a few barriers. Be sure to go over safety rules with kids!!!
111. Sleeping lions. Multiple kids pretend to sleep like a lion, they can not laugh, smile, move, or make any noise what so ever! 1 child tries to wakes or make other kids move or make any noise respectfully!! Any one they wake has to help wake other lions.
112. Laser light show. Turn off all lights have kids lay down, use little lasers from $ store black lights etc to make a light show.
113. Let kids blow bubbles over carpeted areas it won't hurt!!
114. Make your own tic tax toe, checkers, chess board and play. You can do on paper or card board depending how long you want it to last use random things such as beans, candy, mini figurines as peices.
115. Let kids make their own book give them a couple of sheets of paper and have them draw pictures and then wrote a story. If they are too young to write have them tell you the story and you write it or you can make story. You can staple and laminate also
116. Cook something special set dining room up as a resturant with napkins menus and candles and such. Sit down and order and eat a special meal while teaching children how to behave at a resturant.
117. Cops and robbers. I go and steal something from the audrie s room. She has to find it, arrest me, and prove I stole it. Haha
118. Use this time to teach children to groom animals, teach cleaning, show them how to make the bed.. etc you got the time and your not going any where.
119. Make tie blankets and rugs. Make tie blankets place 2 peices of fabric on each other cut a couple of straps all the way around have kids tie together. Use a rug or cabinet slip pad and tie cut up fabrics in each whole.
120. Make macaroni necklaces or edable cereal necklaces.
121. Change your kids room. They love this its amazing how much moving around furniture can change their out look on their stuff!
122. Mash up berries and flowers and show kids how paint use to be made and let them paint!
123. Let kids do splatter art with water colors. Tape paper on shower wall, close curtain and let them splatter away so mess is contained. :) after all it cleans up with water and it in the shower/tub :)
124. Hurricane in a bottle. Water, oil, glitter, and a bottle.
125. Set kids up with educational game on computer.
126. Paint or scrap book paper alphabet magnets. To use stylish abcs
127. Use a cookie sheet for kids to play with magnets
128. Make your own moon sand. Pintrest or Google super simple. Make Ooblek with corn starch and water then add sand. Make sure sand feels wet. Add a small amount of vinegar to keep sanitary and keep from molding or smelling over time.
129. Use vinegar and baking soda to fill balloons.
130. Fill a blow up pool with balls for play.
131. Go to the beach? What ya turn your living room into a beach of course without the sand and water but you can always make moon sand to build sand castles with ;)
132. Go shopping. You need a calculator, kids clothes, and a buggy. Set up your kids clothes and shoes like a store display let kids go shopping for clothes in your home.
133. Go for a treasure hunt. Hid a treat or surprise. Draw a treasure map of the indoor of your house. Have them go peice by peice to collect an additional part of the map and remember X marks the spot. You can also do this with clues instead of map pieces for older kids.
134. Tidye coffee filters or make butterflies. Use coffee filters color with markers squirting with water and dry. If you want a butterfly paint and clip a clothes pin in middle. Coffee filter will be wings.
135. Sculpt soap. Use bar soap microwave let cool let kids sculpt.
136. Paint salt sculptures. Pintrest or Google how to make salt sculptures.
137. Use magazine or spare pictures to make a collage.
That's all I could think of off the top of my head if you want examples, instructions, pictures of any leave a comment and I'll post an article for it. Thanks! -wendikins
