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

Indoor Balloon Volleyball

Indoor Balloon Volleyball

On dark and rainy days, get the kids moving and having fun with indoor ballon volleyball.

What you need

Balloons (and some spares)

String or wool

Two chairs

At least two players

Tie the string between two chairs to make your volleyball ‘net’.

Blow up a balloons.

Divide players into two teams, one on either side of the net. 

On the word “GO” the players tap the balloon back and forth over the net. The aim is to get the balloon to touch the floor, wall or furniture on their opponents’ side – while preventing it from touching on their side. 

Later, you can add another balloon for more action.

If the teams agree, they can score points each time the balloon touches something on the other side of the net. Let them choose how many points they need to win the game.

Shadow Portraits

Develop drawing techniques and understanding of facial proportions.

Shadow Portraits:--One child is appointed as the artist.

Then each child takes a turn to be seated near the wall to have the outline of his head, which is cast by a lamp, traced by the artist upon a piece of white paper, pinned to the wall. 

These outlines are cut out by an assistant, and the name of the player written on the back. 

The papers are then fastened to a dark object and the players are

called upon to guess the names of the originals,

Note. Using black paper and a white pencil is traditional.

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Make a Paper Plate Face Mask

Develop fine motor skills and imagination.

To make a mask from a paper plate, cut eye holes in the plate and then decorate it with pencils, paint, or other ways that you can imagine. You can then attach a string or elastic band to hold it on your face.

Let's Play Hopscotch!

Hopscotch develops physical skills like balance and coordination.

Set Up The Game

1. Draw the Board: Use chalk or tape and create a hopscotch board with numbered squares. Usually, the board has 8 to 10 squares.

2.  Choose an Object: Select something like a stone or a bean bag to toss onto the squares.

Game Rules

-Take Turns: Players take turns standing at the start/finish line.

-Toss the Object: The first player tosses the object onto square one without letting it touch the lines.

-Hop on the squares using one foot in single squares and both feet in double squares.
Avoid stepping on the lines or losing balance.

-On the way back, the player must pick up the object from the square it landed on.

-After completing square one, the player moves on to square two, and so on, until all squares are completed.

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