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Make mix and match creatures with this template.
Have a teddy bear picnic.
Have a doll tea party.
Look through old photos together.
Make thank-you cards for community helpers.
Cut out a part of a magazine picture, glue it onto a piece of white paper, and have your child finish the rest of the picture.
Make shadow puppets.
Have a paper plane making and throwing contest.
Use a bucket or Legos and yarn or twine to make a zip line for toy dolls. Have it zig-zag all across your child’s room, or even throughout the house. Bonus points if you can make it work on stairs!
Use magnet tiles to make a maze for a ping-pong ball.
Make a house out of paper straws and pipe cleaner.
Turn your house into a museum: stuffed animals, rock collections, and items collected from a nature walk become exhibits in a natural history museum. Your child’s art projects become exhibits in an art museum. Toys like marble runs and building blocks can be set up as exhibits in a science museum. After creating the exhibits and their labels, your child can be the museum guide and give a tour to other family members.
Play a simple dot game with this template and a die.
Play a board game: write the names of all the board games you own on popsicle sticks. Place them in a small jar or bucket. Pull out a popsicle stick to determine which game you will play.
Make some homemade modeling dough.
Bake cookies, muffins, or fruit bread.
Make Oobleck with this recipe.
“Paint” your wall with water and a clean paintbrush.
Go on a color hunt around the house.
Play freeze dance.
Make race tracks for toy cars with painters tape on the floor.
Make your house into a jungle: create giant leaves, vines, and draw animals to cut out and tape all over the walls with painter’s tape.
Make your house into an arctic habitat: use cotton balls for snow, a white blanket or sheet, and cut out paper snowflakes. Draw and cut out arctic animals to tape to the walls with painter’s tape.
Make your house into an ocean: pin up a blue sheet or blanket, use folded paper plates to make clams and other fish. Draw and cut out seaweed and tape to the wall with painter’s tape.
Make your house into a fairy garden: draw and cut out fairies and glue them to electric candles or flashlights and turn out all the lights. Make flowers out of tissue paper.
Make perfume out of flower petals from your yard, shaking them up in water.
Paint or use markers to draw on shells you collected from your last beach trip.
Paint rocks.
Make a triangle bunting banner with colored paper.
Make paper bag puppets.
Make a marble game with a thick paper plate, tape, and a few strips of paper.
Make a magazine collage: themes can be specific colors, sports, flowers, your child’s imagined future life as an adult, cities, cars, animals, food, their hobby, or creating a toy store.
Freeze your children’s toys in water in cupcake tins for them to bang open with a toy hammer and butter knife.
Make a metal sculpture with tin foil around crumpled newspaper.
Make a 3D picture with cardstock/cut open cereal box: draw an outline picture for plan-one page for background, other people/things get cut out and glued standing up.
Make a doll treehouse with a sturdy indoor plant and a small cardboard box.
Make fruit kebabs.
Do finger painting.
Match patterns from magazines: cut out different pages in zig-zags, waves, or boxes and have your child reassemble them.
Bake gingerbread people and act out their adventures.
Paint with flowers from the backyard.
Make some foam.
Make cereal necklaces.
Play I-Spy.
Make a rain catcher.
Make fruit juice popsicles.
Draw a treasure map and have an indoor treasure hunt with toys that you hide.
Make cards to give to friends.
Paint with cotton balls.
Build a playground out of popsicle sticks and paper straws.
Draw pictures onto 4-part label pages, then cut them out to make your own stickers.
Do potato printing.
Have an egg hunt with leftover Easter eggs to stretch out snack time (hiding grapes, individual cereal pieces, etc.).
Cut off one side of a cereal box. Draw a picture on it. Cut it into squares (this is a great opportunity to practice measuring with your child) and cut away any remains that don’t allow it to measure evenly. Take out just one piece and shuffle the pieces around, then move pieces around without lifting them to put them back into place.
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