Stuff For Kids To Do

Hunt the Thimble

Hunt the thimble is a party game in which one person hides a thimble, or other small object, somewhere in the room, while all other players wait outside.

When everyone returns, they race to locate the hidden object. The first to find the object is the winner, and hides it for the next game.

Hunt the Thimble

Paper Plate Animal Faces

Create your own pets or, dogs, cats, rabbits, cows elephants, zebras, giraffes, tigers, lions, pigs, reindeer. Or invent your own creature.

Helps a child develop their imagination, as they create animal friends and engage in play and storytelling.

You Will Need

Cardboard, paper plates, paint, scissors, and glue.

Paper Plate Animal Faces

Make a Kite out of Paper or Plastic Bag

Paper Bag Kite

You will need some paper lunch bags, string, a hole punch, sticky tape and some scissors.

1, Decorate your bag with textas or pencils.

2. With a hole punch, make four holes (two on each side of the opening of the bag). Then reinforce around the holes with pieces of sticky tape.

3. Use two pieces of string of equal length), and tie one end around each hole.

4. Tie the string together using a long piece of string, which you can hold. Or, wind the string around a stick, for you to hold onto when you are flying your kite.

Paper Bag Kite

Plastic Bag Kite (Too easy)

Simply tie a piece of string around the handles of a thin plastic bag and run.

Plastic Bag Kite (Too easy)

Make Your Own Coloured Flour Clay

Make Your Own Flour Clay

You need

A large mixing bowl

Large spoon

Ingredients

2 cups of plain flour
1 cup of salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3/4 to 1 cup of water
Food colouring

Method

1. Mix flour and salt in a bowl. Add the oil and slowly add the water until you get the right clay consistency.

2. Select different food colours, then separate the dough into small portions and put each into separate bowls. Add a drop of different colour to each bowl and mix with spoon.

3. Once the dough is well combined, shape it into your creative vision. Then, allow it air dry.

Make Your Own Flour Clay

Pretend Grocery Store

The pretend play of buying groceries helps kids learn social and language skills, quantity and value, to make choices and problem solving.

Set Up an old bookshelf with a toy cash register and toy shopping cart.

Collect old magazines, cereal boxes, clean milk cartons and other empty containers; play money and imitation fruit and vegetables (can be made with paper-mâché). You will also need bags and price tags for items.

The shop can expand its inventory with toys, clothing, or even a cafe. The limit is your child's imagination.

Pretend play

Pretend shopping

Pretend shop

Paper Doll Fashion Show and Storytelling

Paper dolls are great for developing creativity and pretend play.

Make the dolls and the outfit to dress them up and play. Develop stories and have a fashion show.

You can find a template online for the dolls, or design you own with lots of outfits to swap about. Then, get ready for the fashion show!

Some Ideas

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Electrical tape Obstacle Course

Get the kids using their problem solving skills and body, with an electrical tape obstacle course.

Make a mix of straight lines, zigzag paths, and X marks for kids to follow and jump along. Kids love the challenge of navigating different patterns. For example, jump on X marks, tiptoe on zigzags, and run along straight lines.

Make the rules that you have to walk, hop, or jump along each colour path and marker.

The child must navigate the course on their own, stepping on X marks, following zigzags, and balancing along straight lines.

Electrical tape Obstacle Course