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The Coloring Book
Its a rainy day and your kids come up to you
and say they are bored. What do you do?
Here's some things your kids can do on a rainy
day:
Bake a cake or
biscuits
You can make a
cake and let your children help you bake the cake.And
point out how much of the ingredients you need.
Hire a video
You can let your
children choose a video of their choice.
Watch television
Children love
watching television.
Read books
Find a good book
for your children to read and sit down with them to read the book.
Draw pictures
Get out your childrens crayons and let your children draw whatever they
like.
Tidy their room
Children dont like tidying their room but you can make it fun by
timing them how long it takes to tidy their room. Give them a reward if their bedrrom is tidy.
Make a robot
You can give your
children some cardboard boxes, sellotapes, glue, felt
tip pens or crayons, gladwrap rolls, toilet rolls
etc. They could make other things as well like a rocket or dog. Let them be
creative.
Play a board game
Boardgames
are fun to play and your children will enjoy playing a board game like
scrabble.
Making playdough
Playdough
is easy to make and kids just love to play with playdough.
You can make different coloured playdough
by adding food colouring.
Give them cookie
cutters to make different shapes. Heres how you make
it:
2 cups plain
flour
1 cup salt
4 tbspn cream of tartar
2 cups water
2 tbspn Olive Oil
1. Mix the dry
ingredients together in a saucepan.
2.Cook gently and stir to stop lumps forming,
the mix will suddenly thicken.Remove from the pan and
leave to cool.
3.Kneed thoroughly.
4.To keep fresh,store
in a plastic bag in an airtight container.
Finger paint
Kids will enjoy
using this finger paint, its easy to make. This is how you make it
1/2 cup cornflour
1 cup cold water
3 cups boiling
water
2 tsp tempera
paint
1. dissolve cornflour in cold water, add
three cups boiling water. Bring to boil and remove from heat just before it
clears. Add tempera paint powder.
Spotlight
This has to be
played at night,you need a
torch for this game. Turn all the lights off and the person with the torch
counts to 100, while the others go and hide somewhere in the house. Then the
person with the torch turns it on and searches for the players,the first person caught is in for the next game.
Present game
Go to the shop
and buy little things like lollies, toys etc. Wrap
them up seperately, you can also get boobie prizes
like a toilet roll, plastic container or whatever you can find. You need two
packs of cards. One person in charge perhaps a parent holds one pack of cards
and dishes the second pack out. The person puts a pack down and calls each card
out. Whoever has it puts the card down and choses a
present. A prize can be chosen from the pile or from what someone else has
collected. The game continues until the cards run out. Those left with presents
keep them, or they can swap them.
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