Kids Activities: Help me with my list! - Page 3

deemom · 05-29-2008, 11:28 PM

-Pitch a tent in the backyard and have a campout (save money on gas to drive to a campground, campground fees, and indoor plumbing

)
-Nature hike
-Bike ride
-Splash pads or run through the sprinkler
-Sidewalk chalk or paint
-Turn the kids loose outside painting with water and a paintbrush
-Library (free crafts, story time, and other events)
-Bake together
-Lay down outside, look up at the clouds, and come up with different things you see in the shapes
-Paint (finger painting, blow painting, marble painting)
-Sand art (I've found all kinds of sand art supplies in the Target dollar bins and at Michaels)
-Board Games
-Tag, Hide and Go Seek, Simon Says

mommmmy · **My kids are a bit older now, BUT**

one of their favorites was to read Dr. Seuss' Bartholwmew (sp??) and the Oobleck and then make the Ooblek. It is about 2 or 3 parts corn starch to one part water. It is sooooooo cool! I love to play with it too. It is sort of a solid, sort of a liquid....forget what t is called when it is like that. Anyway it runs, but gets hard...really neat stuff. I will only do it outside though because it is MESSY. Easy to hose away nd not unfriendly to the environment, just messy.
Also after you have done it Google it and show the kids some cool stuff grown ups ave done woth it. Like filling a kiddie pool or lap pool with it etc. It is good for an hour or more and a lot of laughs..

deemom · 05-30-2008, 10:42 AM

Bubbles #1
4 c water
1/2 c Joy or Dawn
2 T sugar
Plastic bottle and cap

Fill bottle with ingredients. Gently swish back and forth to mix. Let it settle and become froth free before using

Bubbles #2
4 c water
2 c Joy or Dawn
2 c glycerin (available in drugstores)
2 tsp sugar or corn syrup

Discovery Bottles
Start with clean empty soda bottles
1. Bubble bottle: Fill 3/4 full with water. Add liquid dishsoap till full. Shake for bubbles. Can add food coloring to create colored bubbles.
2. Glitter bottle: Fill 2/3 full with glitter. Add water

Crayon resist drawing
Draw a picture using crayon on paper. Brush layer of paint over entire picture. Crayon will resist paint.

Bubble Wrap painting
Dip of piece of bubble wrap into paint and press onto piece of paper

Homemade watercolors (will fizzle when combined)
1 T clear vinegar
1 T baking soda
1 T cornstarch
1/2 tsp corn syrup
2-3 drops of food coloring
Mix 1st 2, when it stops fizzing add cornstarch and corn syrup. Add food coloring to create color you want

Glitter paint
Mix 1/2 c white glue, 3 tsp liquid tempera paint, 3 tsp glitter

HAPPY2BAMOM · 05-30-2008, 01:12 PM

One year we made our own board game. We picked Monopoly with an animals theme. Everyone did their own part of the board and we put it together to make one big board. They had old animal toys to move from space to space. We also made the cards and everything that goes to Monopoly. It took all day to make and all not to play. We still have it.