We Have to Stay Inside for How Much Longer?

It has been a couple of weeks since the kids were in school and now, they are going to be home for longer. You may be thinking, “What are we going to do?” You may not even have an enclosed backyard or be able to walk around the neighborhood. If you are coming to your wits end, then I have some help for you. I have come up with 108 different things you can do with your kids. Some of them might not be an option but I hope at least 50 of them are. Create an activity jar of ideas. You can print out the ideas, cut them into strips, fold them, and then have your children pick one (or more) a day. If they stick their nose up at the idea, then ask them how they could make the activity more fun. Kids are pretty creative! If you are confused on what the idea is, let me know and I can add some instructions or a visual.

Stay healthy and have fun! We can do this!

1. Look through old photo albums 2. Make playdough 3. Bake/cook 4. Play board games 5. Learn to draw with online tutorial 6. Make a video 7. Have a fashion show 8. Mani/Pedi 9. Madlibs 10. Read a book 11. Write a story 12. Watercolor/paint 13. Take a walk 14. Play online games 15. Wash the car 16. Make something out of fabric 17. Make a cardboard loom and weave yarn 18. Use recycling materials to create something 19. Play Hide and Seek 20. Make slime/putty 21. Virtual zoo tour-Cincinnati Zoo 22. Make sensory bottle 23. Dance Party 24. Treasure hunt 25. Card games 26. Dice games-like Tenzi 27. Virtual museum tour 28. Watch animal cams 29. Pick flowers 30. Make a fort 31. Listen to a story online 32. Play with balloons-keep it up in the air or Ping Pong 33. Sidewalk chalk 34. Draw with marker and spray with water to see colors mix 35. Make an obstacle course inside or in the back yard 36. Make an I Spy Bottle (place random objects in the bottle with rice and see if you can find them all) 37. Write an invisible message in white crayon and color over it with a marker to see it appear 38. Yoga/exercise 39. Make a puzzle from the picture on a cereal box 40. Paint rocks with special messages 41. Watch Peep and the Big Wide World and try the experiment at the end of the show 42. Paper airplanes 43. Use water bottles to make a bowling set 44. Virtual conversation with classmates/friends with Zoom, Skype, Facetime 45. Make a time capsule 46. Play Two Lies and One Truth 47. Play Would You Rather 48. Play Never Would I Ever… 49. Listen to an audiobook 50. Blow bubbles 51. Jump rope 52. Paint with items from around the house-Q-Tips, cars, sponges 53. Play with water in the sink 54. Write a letter to a friend or family member 55. Rearrange your room 56. Find places on Google Earth 57. Start/Plan a garden 58. Camp in the backyard 59. Make and fly a kite 60. Photoshoot 61. I Spy in the neighborhood 62. Play basketball to put toys or trash where it goes 63. Pillow fight 64. Four Corners 65. Name That Tune 66. Play Mother May I 67. Make instruments from recycled materials 68. Chubby Bunny-Who can fit the most marshmallows in their mouth and still say “Chubby Bunny”? 69. Make tie-dyes 70. Make puppets from bags or socks 71. Make a bird feeder 72. Decorate cupcakes 73. Indoor picnic 74. Fill a kiddy pool with balls to make a ball pit-maybe add a slide 75. Make a fort from a large cardboard box 76. Line up dominoes in a maze and watch them fall 77. Ring toss with paper towel tube and plates with the middle cut out to make the ring 78. Hopscotch 79. Play Freeze! 80. Make a balance beam with painter’s tape on the floor 81. Sensory Box-fill a shoebox with different textures and cut a hole for just a hand-what do you think you are touching? 82. Hot Potato 83. Build with mini marshmallows and toothpicks 84. Find objects in your house or outside that begin a letter of the alphabet 85. Put tape or bins on the floor for a bean bag or paper wad and toss-add up the points 86. Egg and Spoon race-carry an egg on a wooden spoon across the room and back without dropping it 87. Three-legged race 88. Sack (or old pillowcase) race 89. Hunt for objects of a certain color 90. Wear clothes and eat food of one color for a whole day 91. Flashlight scavenger hunt 92. Wheelbarrow Race 93. Limbo 94. Twister 95. Move like a certain animal 96. Snowball fight with paper 97. How many ways can you get from here to there? 98. Use straws to make a marble maze on a piece of cardboard 99. Make a gingerbread house 100. Use paper/plastic cups and a water/nerf gun for target practice 101. Orbeez 102. Shoebox houses 103. Shadow Puppets 104. The Floor is Lava 105. Decorate the house for spring 106. Put a large unfolded flat box on your stairs and make a slide 107. Dye Easter eggs 108. Egg hunt