You don’t know what to do at home with kids in autumn and winter evenings? Maybe you are wondering the same during a child’s illness or forced to sit at home without contact with peers? Below you will find a collection of 5 interesting ideas that will diversity kids’ time in for angles.
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1. Redrawing shadows
Simply drawing on a piece of paper that is at your fingertips every day but what can we do to make it more interesting? Redrawing the shadows of various objects, and even more your favorite toys, that’s the great pleasure for everyone. For this fun, you need a few favorite toys, a card, crayon or marker pen, and a lot of sun (or light). Redrawing shadows is extremely creative fun that stimulates children’s imagination and creativity. Certainly it will interest every child, and at the same time allow a little observation.
2. Little chemist – fake snow
Fake snow recipe is very simple, and most of you probably have the ingredients at home. To make cold snow you need 8 packages of baking soda and one shaving foam. You shall pour soda into the bowl and add the foam mixing all the ingredients together. Already during mixing, the child will feel that the mass is cool. After making the mass, we put our snow in the fridge for 30 minutes. After this time, artificial snow is cold and has a great texture to play with. Certainly, every toddler will enjoy such fun if they can’t leave the house or miss snow.
3.Board games
I bet most of you have at least one classic family board game at home. Why it’s worth to play board games with our kids? Because they teach them logical thinking, strategic thinking, counting, reading, teamwork and many more. Of course, first and foremost, games should be about enjoyment. Actually it’s everything you need to keep your children engaged for hours. Also a little tip it’s never too soon to start teaching kids to love board games!
4. Coloring pages
If you are too tired to be a participant of all games and you are looking for an interesting idea for your kids to make them fun and learn the same time you can try to print for free plenty of coloring pages. There are many places where you can find well-known heroes for younger and older children, even for adults, for example, you can use:
5. Hunting beans
It’s a lot of fun with a bit of competition, small motor skills training and speech therapy exercise, all thanks to straws, cups, and beans. You need to put beans in one cup, and the kids get straws and each their own cup. The game is all about sucking air in such a way that the straw tip sucks in the bean and transfers it to a cup without touching the bean with your fingers. This is another example of simple fun at a low cost.