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.