Surviving the quarantine of 2020 by Making fun Memories!
Let’s help eachother keep Busy, while staying Happy & HEALTHY at Home!

Here’s just a few more simple fun ideas to keep the kiddos busy, having fun & learning too!

Sticky Web catch:

 
It’s basically just what you see in the photo (which is very old & blurry, sorry, but gives you the general idea.)
        All you need:
-Large roll of  DUCT TAPE. (We used painters tape in this photo and it isn’t as sticky)
-construction paper or paper bags or anything you can crumple up into a ball.
*find a doorway or entryway in your home that allows enough space to stand back and toss. Simple create your “web” by sticking up long pieces of duct tape with the tricky side facing whichever side you will be tossing your “spiders” from.
*meanwhile have the kids crumple up pieces of construction paper or paper bags into small balls. If they want to get extra creative and attach pipe cleaner antennas or draw eyes or anything they can! If not, just a balled up piece of lightweight paper will do!
*stand back facing the sticky side of the web & take turns tossing your spiders and seeing who can get the most to stick.
Add a challenge: create lines on the floor and start from closest and work your way to furthest seeing who can get their spider on the web from each distance first.

                                          Oil&Water OCEAN in a BOTTLE:

All you need:

Glass jar w/lid

Oil (Vegetable oils are best!)

Water

Food coloring (Blue , but feel free to change it up if you prefer!)*This is an old classic & easy experiment almost all kids do at some point& it’s always super fun! Just take your jar & fill it up half way with water & mix in a couple drops of blue food coloring (or whichever color you choose) , then slowly pour in your oil to fill the rest of the jar. The oil and water will separate as it sits creating two distinct layers. Tip the jar sideways and create  Ocean Waves by rocking it gently side to side! For extra fun try dropping in beads , glitter, shells, tiny rocks or toys into the jar. It creates a fun sort of manual “lava lamp” like toy / sensory bottle. **Always make sure your kid is on very tight!!

BONUS: Find a you tube video for kids that explains what oil & water don’t mix and gives the 

lesson behind your experiment!! 

Dinner on a Stick:

All you need:

Hot Dog or Sausage of some sort

(Precooked! Most are, but just check)

Long stick or skewer

 (we used real sticks from our yard & wiped them down)

-Open fire pit

(Although you can use you inside fireplace if you like or if weather isn’t good for outdoors.

*obviously this is one that requires close supervision! Kids & open fires & sticks ... well, you know! 😬

But, it’s super FUN!!! My kiddos LOVE doing this! They like to pretend they’re “roughing it” in the wilderness. All you do is literally put their hot dog or sausage link (we use precooked organic GFCF variety)

onto the end of their stick and have them slowly roast them over the flames until heated enough to 

eat! 

Hot Cocoa Dunkers:

   

All you need:

Chocolate chips

(Or a bar broken up)

Plastic spoons

Ice cube tray

Optional: sprinkles, nuts, mini marshmallows

-a simple, no bake treat to enjoy with hot cocoa. Perfect for a cozy night in together.

Start with melting your chocolate. I use a pot with water at the very bottom, over whoch inplaceaglase bowl that sits on the top nicely (as pictured above) I place my chocolate into the glass bowl & turn on the burner. As water comes to a boil, I turn heat down and continually stir the chocolate until it has melted into a smooth and pourable consistency. 

*place your plastic spoons , spoon side down into each cube of your empty ice cube tray. Cover each 

by filling the cube with your melted chocolate. If you like you can add is sprinkles, chopped nuts or mini marshmallows. Carefully place them into freezer and allow to fill harden. When done, popthem out and you have a tasty dunkable chocolate treat to stir into your hot cocoa.

Rock Painting:

All you need: 

Craft Paint

Paintbrushes 

Rocks

* as simple as it sounds! My kids have done this for years and years.... at every age & still find it fun! Use it as another great way to get fresh air & go for a rock hunting walk. Let them find small rocks of  all shapes and sizes , then sit outside on a drop cloth or grass (or inside if need be) and paint away! You can keep them in a vase later on to admire as decor, they can make garden stones (most paints will wash away from rain after a while though) , planter decor, make them look like animals or creatures, glue eyes on, add glitter, whatever they want! Just something different to paint besides paper. 

Wall mural:

All you need:

Giant roll of paper or poster boards or just whole bunch of small paper you can piece together!

*cover a large area of wall with paper using whatever tape you like. Painters tape is a great choice as it peels off easily. Obviously you want to do this in a room that you aren’t super picky about should some mess be made! We have a spare room that we use for all things messy and don’t care how “creative” the kids get in there! 😆 BUT, you can also do this outside and cover a patio table top with paper and tip it on its side. That’s works great!! If indoors, cover the floor beneath the mural wall 

with a drop cloth of some sort. Bring out the paints and brushes and let hem go!! This photo above is  from several years ago.... when my babies were still babies🤗😢We chose to learn about the Colors of the rainbow (using you tube and Pinterest and my prior knowledge I actually still remembered 😆)  Good ol’ ROY G. BIV (Red orange yellow green blue indigo and violet too!) , we learned a song from a cute you tube video too! And then we painted away to show what we had learned and left a beautiful masterpiece that remained up for months!

Outdoor Picnic meal: 

Yep just what it looks like! Sometimes just doing the same ol’ thing in a different location makes it way more fun & a change of scenery is always good! If the sun is shining, take lunch outside and sit on a big blanket & enjoy.

Living Room Campout:

Again, exactly how it sounds! Self explanatory! It’s all about switching up locations & typical scenery. Put a mattress into living room, make an extra special  dessert, put on a good movie and let everyone campout together in the living room! So simple but so exciting for the kids. 

Remember, it’s all about Making Memories!! They will remember these things forever.... I know from experince🥰I spend my time recreating all my own favorite childhood memories for my own lil trio now.

 Surviving the big Quarantine of 2020 -
 Lets help eachother stay HAPPY & HEALTHY and BUSY !

                      Kids crafts:

DIY Bird Houses :

 

Sock Caterpillar 

This one’s an oldie but goodie! My son was so little in this pic 💗☺️

All you need:

Old sock

Stuffing or Cotton Balls

Elastics/rubber bands

Pipe cleaner

   Googley eyes 

( eyes are optional, you can just draw them on if needed)

Just fill the sock w/stuffing, use rubber bands to tie off each section to create the caterpillar shape, making the bottom section slightly larger as this will be the Face. Take your pipe cleaner and twist around to form it’s antennas, glue on your eyes (or draw them) ... optional:draw a happy smiling mouth!  

-Leaf People

All you need:

Paper

Glue

Googley eyes (or you can cut eye shapes put of paper)

Leaves and/or stems & small sticks 

-enjoy some fresh air & go outside to collect leaves of all shapes and sizes , their different stems & any small sticks.... even small rocks or wood chips or pieces of bark etc.

-bring them inside and arrange them however you like to form your “leaf person”

-glue them onto your base paper, use stems & sticks for arms and legs. Glue on your eyes. See how many different ones you can create!

-TP Flyers

All you need:

Empty Toilet paper or Paper towel rolls 

Other cardboard (old pizza boxes, shoe boxes, packages of any sort...)

Scissors 

Glue or stapler (stapler holds better & works faster!)

Cut hole for the airplane “seat” into your empty roll/tube. Cut your wing shape from other cardboard.

 Use glue OR stapler to affix the wings to bottom of your tube. Use markers and stickers to decorate. 

Use small action figures of any sort to “fly” your new planes!

-Newspaper Shark face

All you need:

Old newspaper (you can also just use paper, newspaper just makes it look cool & makes good use of old papers you would otherwise toss.

Blue paper (dark & light.)

Black paper

White paper

Googley eyes

Use a full sheet of light blue paper (or other light background color) as your base paper. Take your piece of newspaper and cut out the shape of the sharks head. Glue it onto your paper from the bottom up (so it touches bottom). Take your dark blue paper and cut a strip of wave like design across the bottom. Take your wave strip and glue it so it’s covering bottom of your shark. Take your black paper and cute out a mouth shape. Glue to middle of shark head. Cut sharp teeth from white paper and glue them into the mouth.

*BONUS: find a fun book about sharks or a you tube video and watch it before creating your shark.

Here are a couple others that are pretty self explanatory by the photos:

Surviving the Quarantine of 2020:
 Let’s help eachother stay busy, active, HAPPY & HEALTHY!!

Walking adventures to nowhere & games to play along the way.😄

So, we all quite obviously NEED Fresh Air & a way to keep our bodies moving & active and get some energy outa the kiddos right!? My trio & I love a nice walk & often walk a couple miles to the center of our town where we can make fun stops at the local cafes & restaurants or the park and library.... BUT under the current circumstances those destinations are a No-Go!😮 Whoch leaves us with only the long WALK part....no real certain destination. So, the monotony of walking aimlessly to nowhere can quickly become just as “boring”

to the kids as staying inside the house does after a couple days. BUT... if you turn the Walk to Nowhere into playtime/GAMEtime/Adventure time then it becomes more about what you’re doing than where you’re going and when you’ll be done. So here are a few of our TOP Fav Games to Play as we walk to nowhere! 🤗

(Bonus: These games are also educational and keep those little minds working hard & learning as they go!)

1: Find the ABC’s !! Literally that... FIND each letter of the alphabet as you walk... it could be on a street sign, a license plate, a doormat OR it could be the shape of a leaf, branch, plant, markings in the dirt .... anything and everything counts! Just find each letter as you go from

a-Z! (You can also do a numbers version too)

2: Alphabet game- No not the same as #1 😆 This time working your way through all 26 letters find an object that begins with the letter! It could be on yourself, your name, something you see on the ground, at a house, on a car.... anything! Be creative!! We thought we were stuck on letter Q today until we realized my daughters name is Quin😂😂. Or for letter I , my daughter found what she called an “itty bitty fence” which was actually a garden edge/frame... basically looked like a picket fence but very “itty bitty” as she said!😬😆 So, it’s a  perfectly acceptable letter “I” find. 👌🏻

3: I Spy! We take turns looking around and finding something we want the rest to guess. We say aloud: “I spy with my little eye, something.....” and then give subtle hints until someone has guessed it! It could be a vehicle up ahead, some price of house decor, a garden bloom, a tree, an animal, your own shoe, a cloud... whatever u spy.

4: Nature Scavenger hunt: Quickly write down  random items that can be found in nature in your area (or the area you plan to walk) Bring it along and check them off until they’re all found! Next time you walk, write a different list! Take turns each writing one.

5: Simon says. Yes, the basic childhood classic game. Same exact rules. Just this time you’re on the move. I mean, the neighbors may have a laugh if they glance out the window as Simon says for everyone to do the floss or the running man as you work your way down the street, but who couldn’t use some free entertainment right now!?😜 (skip, hop, leap, spin, jump, walk backwards, hop on one foot, rub your nelly&pat your head.... Simon can say all sorts of things!

6: “Treasure Hunt” grab a bag of some sort that your kids can easily carry & let them hunt for “treasure” along the way! It can be anything : different colored leaves, small rocks of different shapes and colors or ones that are shiny & sparkle.... shells if you’re by the water, sticks, stems, flowers, whatever catches their lil eyes! Collect them in the bag and then bring them home and sort through them all and take a closer look. Maybe some can even be used for arts& Crafts in some way!

I know I have many more ideas and I will try to share them as I think of them, but wanted to get his out there for all of you!! We just got back in from a lovely walk to nowhere and we found all sorts of A-Z goodies and Our little eyes spied a ton! ☺️😊