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| "Rainy" Day Ideas 2 |
| Ever hear "I'm bored!"? Here are some fun crafts & activities to do at home. |
| Indoor Camping Take a camping trip right inside your own home! Set up a small tent or make one using blankets and chairs. Lay out sleeping bags or blankets. Create an imaginary campfire using rocks set in a circle with some crumpled red and orange cellophane for "fire" Add a frying pan and spatula for some pretend cooking. Don't forget marshmallows for toasting. Tell stories around the "fire", kick back and enjoy some great family time. Water Painting Buckets of water old brushes and rollers With the buckets of water in hand and a brush or roller, set children in front of your fence, house or even the family car and instruct them to paint. It's wet, cool, clean fun! "Jam" Session Take a drive to King's Orchard in Plantersville, Tx or find one near you. Grab a wagon and pick strawberries, blueberries, and Kiowa berries. Eat, sing and talk as you pick. Bring a hat, sunscreen and plenty of water to drink. When you get home try making jam with your berries or just eat them. Remember berries freeze well so you can save your "King's Treasure" for later use. for more information visit their website at: www.kingsorchard.com Balloon Scavenger Hunt Write letters of the alphabet on small strips of paper, with a clue. Fold them and put them in latex balloons. Blow up the balloons and tie with the letters inside. Write the same letters and hide in different areas of your house. Children will sit on and pop the balloons and find the letter and clue inside. Then go hunting for their letter. Make the hunt interesting have small prizes for each letter found. Water Play Remember fun doesn't have to be expensive! Fill up the kitchen sink, small pool, or bathtub with bubbles, add some plastic animals, spoons, measuring cups, and just play. Use whatever you have, talk about what sinks/floats ect. Just have fun! Layered Jar Gather a small covered glass jar, several varieties of dried beans:lima, pinto,kidney, navy, split peas, ect. Mix all the beans in a large bowl, and ask your child to sort the beans into piles. Then he/she can layer the piles into the jar in any order. Glue the cover on the jar and enjoy as a decoration. As a variation collect materials from outside:pine needles, small pebbles, sand, leaves, sticks,etc. and layer them from largest to smallest. This is a fun way to practice sorting/matching skills |
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| Match the Sounds Save or ask a camera store for several empty 35mm film canisters. Gather small items that make a distinctive sound when shaken in the canister:beans, rice, sand, etc. Fill two canisters with the same items and glue the covers on. Make at least 3 pairs of shakers with different things in them. mix up the canisters and see if your child can match the pairs by shaking and distinguishing between the different sounds. This is a great game to practice listening skills. Collection Counting Give your child a small basket, bag or box to hold collections: shells, rocks, leaves, toy animals, anything that interests him/her. From time to time encourage your child to lay out his/her collection and help count them. Play "Mother, May I?" One child serves as "Mother". The other children line up and face Mother about 20 feet away. Mother selects one of the children and says something like"Susan, you may take 5 baby steps". The child who was addressed then responds "mother, may I?" Mother then says "Yes you may". Mother then addresses another child and the game continues until one of the children reach Mother. Whoever reaches Mother first becomes"Mother" for the next round. Sounds simple? but someone is bound to forget their manners and take their steps with out asking "Mother may I?" and that player is sent back to the beginning of the line. this game practices listening, taking turns, body movements, counting and manners. Cricket Thermometer Use the help of the crickets to estimate the temperature outside. The warmer the temperature the faster the cricket chirps, the cooler the slower the cricket will chirp. Count the crickets chirps for 15 seconds. Add 40 and you will have the approximate temperate in Fahrenheit degrees. Colors Rising Illustrate to your child how plants "drink" water with this simple experiment. Place about 20 drops of blue or red food coloring in 1/4 cup of water. Put the water in a glass. Cut a piece of celery at a slant and put the celery in the colored water. Make a guess what will happen. Throughout the day watch the color rise up the celery stalk. |