- Gather the rainbow! Mix up a batch of colorful fun. Add food dye to pasta for a fun sensory bin.
- Create a bouquet of roses – all you need are some paper plates!
- Race your cars, powered by balloons, across a room.
- POst ideas: Paint Chip Roundup
- Mop the floor – in your socks. Get sudsy with this homemade cleaning recipe.
- Upgrade some treasured toys – use stickers, foam and paint to redecorate them.
- Sew a pillow buddy for a friend.
- Make TP tube people, put on a play
- Create giant blocks, and make a backyard tower.
- Decorate old outlet covers to be eyes, noses and mouths for play dough play. Fun and easy to clean.
- Go fly a plane! Make one from an egg carton. You can cut and then decorate your carton to be a fun glider.
- Collect all the cardboard tubes and bottle caps that you can find. Make a tube train
- Go get a handful of paint chips and make monster puzzles.
- Chop up your crayons and heat them in the oven on low – paint with your melted crayon bits!
- Play a prank on a family member. Make a batch of the grossest fake snot – ever!
- Build a fort. Too cool and your kids are learning about geometry and developing spatial awareness at the same time!
- Play with cardboard boxes. Make an aquarium for all the imaginary fish you can come up with!
- Build a tower out of disposable cups. Use straws and Q-tips and blow “darts” at your tower to watch it topple.
- Make a pinball drop for a pingpong ball to drop from. This one is made from a box and craft sticks!
- Pretend you are an archeaologist and dig up dinosaur bones from a “tar” pit.
- Create Kinetic Sand and pck one of these ten ways to play with it!
- Magnetic Mud is easy to make, if you have the supplies, and mesmerizing!
- Paper dolls are fun to create, color and decorate, and then to play with in pretend worlds. Print up a set for free.
- Make a bedtime sensory bottle, and count the stars in the dark.
- Play Kerplunk – only make the game yourself using a pot and pom-poms!
- Make a yarn maze in a laundry basket – your tots will love fishing items through the leveled web of yarn.
- Give your kids a challenge – fill a bag with random supplies and sit back and watch the marvels your kids will make!
- Create puzzles from Craft Sticks for your kids to exchange and solve with each other.
- Say no to boredum with the help of smile coupons. Ask your kids to think of ways to make others smile.
- Gluten-free, safe play dough for kiddos who have gluten sensitivity – your kids can even eat this play recipe!
- Go BIG. Make a gianormous dry erase mat for your kids to doodle over using a shower curtain.
- How fun! Make playdough for your kids out of marshmallows! You can eat it afterwards for a sugar rush.
- Frozen Sparkly Paint – Making ice paints is a great way to cool as you play.
- Send your toys on an expedition! Make a LEGO zipline across a room in your house, fasten your toys and watch them soar across the room.
- Aqua Sand – it’s mesmerizing and will keep your kids entertained pouring sandi into water and pulling it back out again – dry!
- Don’t let the brain cells die during summer brain. Keep building nuerons (and develop empathy) with thisbrain-building trick.
- Whip up a batch of super soft playdough – you only need two ingredients.
- Mix oil and water together with whisks. Watch how the globs stay separate. Add a couple eye droppers and food dye for an afternoon of play.
- Practice spatial awareness and fine motor skills by building a cup tower with your kids. It’s harder than it looks!
- Peanut butter Play dough is super tasty and fun to play with. Your kids will love it!
- Bust out the Legos and have a brick building contest. To contain your bricks use a kiddie pool.
- Make puppets – and have a show. These wiry puppet skeletons are fun and easy to make.
- Whip up a batch of play! There are more than 50 recipes of fun for your kids to choose from! Boredom is banished!
- Get colorful. Make a batch of mom-made paint for your kids to play with and create.
- Go Big! You can transform giant foam blocks, recycled from old furniture cushions, into a giant crash mat. Hours of fun!
- Play line dominos – make a set of cards or stones with wiggly lines for your kids to line up into a “train”.
- Be a rainmaker. Fill a cup with water and top with shaving cream. Drip food dye onto the top of the fluff and watch it rain through to the water.
- Paint the colors of the rainbow, on your driveway.
- Paging fun moms frozen dough
- Make crayon wands! Melt your crayon scraps and fill straws to make these fun instruments of creativity.
- Sing a song together – one that requires whole body motions!
- Make a busy bag for your kids to create and explore.
- Get crazy with a DIY Geoboard. Use colorful bits of yard and even elastic and other textures to make shapes.
- Get Colorful!! With your cookies. Make a batch of Unicorn Poop – your kids will think it’s hilarious!
- Create a set of moustache clings – you can decorate your face on the mirror.
- Simple play ideas are the best! Line a set of stairs with boxes and drive your cars down them.
- Pass a smile forward. Create a list of cards with things that will make people smile. Share them!
- Paint… in the bath tub! The perks of this recipe is that there is no clean up. Genius!
- Dual with the forces. Transform the cardboard tubes from wrapping paper into lightsabers.
- Enjoy peppermint patties – in play dough form! This edible recipe is tasty (make in small batches – you’ll get a sugar rush).
- Watch balls drop with a ping-pong roller coaster. You can make this one from cardboard tubes and magnets and put it on your fridge.
- Rube Goldberg machienes are fascinating! Look around your house and see what you can use to create your own giant machiene.
- Make a mat to play hopscoth on! You can roll it out for play and clean up is a breeze!
- Ink Blot Monsters are a super easy and fun craft for kiddos!
- Transform a set of old cans into a banging machiene – all you need are some balloons. DIY Drums!
- Watch your milk explode with color! Add some food dye and soap.
- Create a set of paper dolls for your child to decorate and play with!
- Turn up the music and exercise together. If possible, try bringing your family-friendly workout outdoors.
- Refuse to listen to your kids say I’m Bored. You can make a list of chores or even activity ideas. When your kids are bored they can draw from the jar.
- Raid the recycle bin. Make a set of wacky characters from the clean trash in your bin.
- Be silly together. Take selfies with your phone, print them out and doodle on your faces.
- Make a pretend cooking stove from a box. Have fun making magical meals.
- Watch it fall. Create a set of funnels that dump into a box and drop stuff through them. Fun!
- CLoud Dough. This stuff is great, so light and fluffy but it acts a bit like sand. You can build with this dough.
- Love fairies? Make a fairy condo building! Use random boxes and bits of wrapping paper to make it a home.
- Jump and skip – with a DIY jump rope. This classic is a blast and great to get kids moving when they are solo.
- Make a foldable doll house. You can bring this toy with you anywhere for on-the-go-play.
- Ice! It’s cold and fascinating! Fill cups with colored water, freeze them, and watch the ice mix and melt as you add salt to the blocks.
- Whip up a batch of melting ice cream play dough. This recipe tastes horrid, but is tot safe and smells and acts just like ice cream.
- We did this and it was a blast!! Make a giant bubble tent. Tape ends of a tarp together and add a fan, The result is fun!
- Have a balancing battle. Stack a book on your head and walk around an obstacle. Try it again with a pencil on your nose. Or holding a basket on a ball.
- Explore kinetic energy with exploding popsicle sticks. Stack the sticks and watch them blow!
- Make a ball pit!! Or a balloon Pit! Your kids will be lost in the balls for hours.
- Candy Ink. Yumm!! Fill a glue bottle with concentrated jello and paint away – it’s edible art!
- Solve a puzzle, like this DIY marble maze. Your kids can make them and then swap to solve the maze puzzles.
- Make a globe, from straws. Who knew you could bend and build such cool structures from straws.
- Got Rythmn? Want it? Look around your house for different surfaces to bang on – like trash cans, or even the washer machiene.
- Build with TP tubes. Decorate them to look like houses, cut slits and stack.
- Get goofy with some giggy goggles. Here is a set that you can print up, deocrate and be super silly with. We suggest you print them onto cardstock paper.
- Build a house with a deck of cards. It is harder than it looks!
- Make a sidewalk mosaic with items you can find in your yard. Love textures!
- Finger Paint! Mix up a batch with your kids favorite colors. Add jello powder to make it scented paint.
- Watch lemon juice bubble and pop! This experiment smells delish, is taste safe, and is a great example of chemical reactions for kids.
- Exercise!! It’s easy to be fit with these ABC moving games.
- Fold paper to make boxes. You can build towers with them!
- Create origami. This is an origami eyeball that you can make – it actually blinks.
- Let your inner monster free with these ping-pong ball creatures.
- SLIME!! Make it glow with this fun recipe.
- Sew. Fine motor skills are gained through sewing. Create a sewing project for your kids from cardboard.
- Garden. Plant some seeds in your backyard and watch them grow.
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