The best ways to have fun with your kids

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Once every mother runs out of fantasy: the children whine or misbehave, and you don’t know how else to entertain them … Let this list be your lifesaver, put a bookmark and gradually try all the ways you can have fun and interesting time with your children.

Picnic

Try organizing a home picnic - believe me, it can be very fun.

Blanket house

Using chairs, armchairs, and any other materials at hand, build a fortress out of blankets, pillows, and rugs.

Sock dolls

Find instructions on the Web and make cute little dolls out of old socks.

pajama party

Organize a dance party to your favorite tunes.

tea ritual

Have a tea ceremony. Look on Youtube how to organize everything correctly, according to all traditions.

Sonneteer

Read poems, fables, fairy tales to children and learn songs together.

Home salon

Play nail salon: give each other a beautiful manicure. Clients can be dolls or toys.

Homemade ABC book

Make a primer. Have your child take pictures of things that start with certain letters of the alphabet. These will be illustrations.

Role-playing game "School"

Play school - let your child try himself as a teacher.

Nostalgia

Revisit old photo albums - sometimes it's so nice to plunge into the past.

Your own director

If you have a camcorder, try filming your family.

Animated cartoons

Ask the children to draw their favorite cartoon characters.

Board games

Play board games such as Monopoly or Lotto.

Your own painter

Paint with watercolors.

In search of treasure

Hide "treasures" somewhere. Play treasure hunters.

joint baking

Bake cookies, muffins, or croissants together.

Dressing up

Play dress up: Try dressing like famous people or people you know. You can imagine that you are walking on the catwalk or taking pictures on the carpet.

Newspaper caps

Learn to make garrison caps from the newspaper. It's easy to find instructions on the Web.

Little cooks

Teach children to cook some simple and tasty dish.

Cardboard fortress

Build a toy fortress together with cardboard boxes and duct tape.

Snowballs without snow

Play snowballs at home using rolled up socks instead of snow.

Home theater

Have a movie show: popcorn, get cola, watch a movie together.

We sculpt edible figurines

Make dough figurines and bake them. Then they can be eaten together with tea or cocoa.

Cardboard car

Make an imitation of a car out of a large cardboard box. Inside the box, you can place a driver's seat, and cut holes for the legs at the bottom. In this case, the legs will play the role of the wheels of the car.

Joint postcards

Make handmade cards for the next holiday: with drawings and applique.

Simple games on paper

Play tic-tac-toe, gallows, palms, dances or sea battle.

Homemade puzzles

Make your own jigsaw puzzles out of heavy cardboard, color them in, and then cut them out.

We play artists

Draw pictures as a gift for grandparents.

The floor is lava

Play an active game. For example, throw pillows on the floor. They will be "safe islands" and the rest of the floor will be "lava". You need to jump from pillow to pillow without hitting the floor.

Green palms

Draw a tree trunk and branches on a large sheet of paper. Cover your palms with easy-to-wash green paint and sprinkle a lot of green "leaves" on the branches by simply placing your hands on the paper. After many years, it will be interesting for you to look at the prints of tiny palms.

trampoline from pillows

Jump on a pile of pillows pre-assembled from around the house.

Home bowling

Bowling at home. Take a variety of plastic jars from the bathroom (shampoos, creams), arrange them in one line. It remains to find a small ball, and your home bowling is ready!

We play famous artists

Learn a new song. It will be possible to perform a musical number in front of dad or other relatives later.

"Spoil" the wall

Cover one of the walls with posters of your favorite characters or actors.

Needlework

Make a beaded necklace with colorful beads. For yourself or someone else as a gift.

Hello, we're looking for talent

Organize your own talent show. Let everyone demonstrate some number.

Home snow

Make a snowfall in the room - out of paper cut snowflakes.

Festive garland

Anyone's birthday soon? It's time to get ready, make home decorations. Make a garland of colorful paper. Cut figurines out of paper and fasten them together.

Clay figurines

Mold figurines from special polymer clay and bake them in the oven to harden.

Paper dolls

Draw and color your favorite characters (from cartoons or books) on paper, cut them out. Give them accessories: new clothes (for girls), cars and weapons (for boys). Play paper dolls.

Touching letters

Write a paper letter to your grandparents. Go send it together.

Coronation

Make a crown for a princess or prince.

Superhero family

Craft a superhero costume from small items at hand.

Aircraft manufacturers

Craft and launch a paper plane.

Family weekend

Plan and prepare your family vacation together.

We play interior designers

Rearrange the furniture in the nursery.

Home coffee shop

Open a homemade cocoa cafe. Cocoa in it can be served with marshmallows, whipped cream, with chocolates - your imagination is unlimited.

Bird feeder

Make a bird feeder from a plastic bottle. Pour seeds there and hang them outside the window.

Mini pizzas made from bagels or bread

Make mini pizzas using bread or bagels, tomato sauce, cheese, and any ingredient you like. Readiness is easy to determine - as the cheese melts.

Beauty salon

Let the kids try themselves as makeup artists - it will be a lot of fun!

Doctor's office

Play patient and doctor. Any child will be interested to be a doctor at least for some time.

The mummy returns game

Anyone can play the role of a mummy. The rest of the game participants wrap the "mummy" in many layers of toilet paper.

Playful kisses

Offer children bright lipstick that can leave kiss marks on family and friends.

Home theater

Read a simple story to the children, and then invite them to try themselves in the role of theater actors.

Shop on the couch

Play with the kids at the grocery store. The goods in the store can be blanks from the pantry.

Water procedures

Take a bath! Allow your child to take toys that you would normally not be allowed to take to the bathroom (it is important that they are waterproof!).

Get out together

Do a spring cleaning together. Of course, children do not always like to do housework. However, it is very important to teach your child to help around the house at an early age.

Comic artists

Draw comics with the children and color them.

Posters from the Internet

Allow your child to choose and print beautiful color pictures from the Internet on their own.