Getting creative with the kids is our new reality. Here are some ideas to get you planning what to do next to keep them occupied during our current health crisis.
1. Cook and bake with your child. Kids love to have the opportunity to do things with you. Helping in the kitchen is a great option to consider when looking for some cheap activities to do. Making pie crusts, pizza, and biscuits can be some of the most fun things for kids, because they enjoy the feeling of the squeezing of dough through their fingers.
2. Make roads for toy cars using colored tape on floors. This activity will keep your child busy by playing with their toy cars on the makeshift “road” you built for them. It will keep them busy for hours and is a very cheap entertainment idea that takes little time in making.
3. Have fun with arts and crafts. For many kids, finger painting and coloring is a great activity to do to fill their time. It can obviously be messy so ensure that if painting, you put some old newspaper down on your table to prevent messes and any hassle.
4. Play board games. This is especially cheap if you already own some board games to play. This type of activity can be a lot of fun and is a great opportunity to bond as a family, as all age groups enough this quality time.
5. Transform old boxes of all sizes. Kids love to pretend and boxes can be super fun. Decorate them and make a variety of rooms - cut out doors or windows, make a box car, or even if you're short on boxes, use a set of chairs and design a make-shift school bus!
6. Make some tie-dyed t-shirts. This activity can be cheap if you have any plain t-shirts that you aren’t wearing. All that you may need to buy is the dye for the shirts. This activity is a fun thing to do with each other and is something that, once the shirt is dry, can be worn together. If you can't get to a store right now and you have food coloring or Kool-Aid, this may work too by searching instructions online.
7. Make a fort. Drape some blankets and pillows over some chairs in the living room and make a fort. Then have a picnic lunch inside your fort.
Now is the time to spend that much needed times with the kids, as they are bored and would love to spend some quality time with their parents who are off work due to the current virus situation.
You may not have this type of an opportunity once things get "back to normal," so enjoy as much time as you can while the kids are out of school and you are out of work.
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