Spring Activities

Rainy Day Indoor Activities!

Indoor Basketball Ingredients: Socks, Empty basket or trash pail Instructions: Place an empty container on top of a dresser. Roll up a pair of socks. Use the socks to toss into the basket. Safe and fun. Hot and Cold Ingredients: Small toys or edible treats Instructions: Hide the small toys or editble treats somewhere in the house. Ask your child to find them. When they are getting nearer to the object say "hot" when they get away from the object say "cold". Hide and Seek Ingredients: Kitchen timer Instructions: Two ways to play this one. Set the kitchen timer and ask the kids to hide. You have to find them by the time the timer rings. Or, set the timer and hide it. The kids have to find the timer before it goes off. They might be able to hear it ticking which makes it more fun. Fishing Fun Ingredients: Construction paper, Scissors, Pens, pencil, Small box Instructions: Cut out shapes of fish with the construction paper. On each fish wirte an instruction: i.e. find something blue, count to 5, hug Mommy, pet the dog etc. Place the fish in a box or container. Have your child pull out a fish and complete the instruction. Personal Recordings Ingredients: Tape recorder, Blank cassette tape Instructions: If you have access to a tape recorder this can be a lot of fun. Set up the recorder to record and have your child sing, recite nursery rhymes or tell their favorite story. These make great gifts for grandparents. You can also surprise Mom or Dad with a special tape for him/her to listen to on the way to work Island Hopping Ingredients: Pillows Instructions: Place several pillows around a large open area. Tell your child they are islands. Have the child hop from island to island without faling in the water. Make up stories about pirates and alligators while playing. Go Fish Ingredients: Stick for fishing rod, String, Magnets, Scissors, Construction paper, Glue or tape, Metal paper clips Instructions: Parents can cut out fish shapes from construction paper. Glue or tape metal paper clips to the back of the fish. Make the fishing rod with a long stick and a piece of string. Attach a magnet to the end of the string. Scatter the fish on the floor or in a large box/container. Kids will have fun for hours fishing! Treasure Hunt Ingredients: Various objects/edible treats, Paper, Pen, pencil, crayons or markers Instructions: Parents can hide several objects around the house. Make a treasure map indicating where the treats are. Or, have the kids hide the objects and make the map for siblings to find. Changing Body Game Instructions: Get a picture of your child and glue it to a piece of paper. Then allow the childern to go thru magazines, newspapers, etc... and cut out pictures of animals, people, characters. Then cut off the heads of all of these pictures and they can place them over their picture to see what they would look like in someone else's body!. Example: cut the head off of Bozo the clown and place the rest over the body of your picture and you can see what it looks like! How about cutting off the head of a giraffe and having a body like a giraffe...it is a lot more fun than it is written. Dress Up Instructions: Keep a trunk or box filled with old Halloween costumes, Mom and Dads old clothes, hats, belts, bobbles and beads. Kids love to play dress-up and will spend hours in this box. Caterpillar Ingredients: Plastic-Foam meat tray, Hole puncher, Yarn, Pen, Instructions: Cut circles from a plastic-foam meat tray. With a hole puncher, punch a hole through the center of each circle., Tie a knot in one end of a piece of yarn. Push the other end of the yarn through the hole in each circle. When your caterpillar is as long as you want, knot the second end of the yarn, leaving some yarn behind the knot for a tail. Draw a face on the front circle. What a cute little Caterpillar you have made! Birthday Paper Ingredients: 1 warming tray caryons paper towels - white - janitorial towels best aluminum fold sponge tongs one adult Instructions: Cover warming tray with aluminum fold. Turn on warming tray When tray is warmed up completely take crayons and slowly draw a design with as many colors as you desire. (crayons will melt) After desired design is achieved lay paper towel over the crayons. Take the sponge and dab gentle until crayons are complete absorbed. Carefully use tongs to pickup towel. Allow to dry five minutes. Makes beautiful wrapping paper. Indoor Green House Ingredients: 2 clear 2-liter bottles (soda), sand, dirt, seeds Instructions: Cut the bottles so that the bottom of one is appox 4" high (this creates the bottom of your house) this is the base. Then cut the other one so it's about 9" high this will be the "lid" or top for you house. Place a small amount of sand in the bottom of the 4" base. Add soil and seeds. Water then slip the top over it to create your own greenhouse. Put in sunny place and plants will appear in 2-5 days (depending on the seeds you use). Baking Raindrops Ingredients: cookie sheet, flour, raining outside, stove, First fill up a cookie sheet with flour-spread it evenly. Then go outside when it is raining, and let the rain hit the cookie sheet filled with flour, after you have gotten enough raindrops, then put the sheet in the oven for about 10-15 minutes, then you will have baked raindrops Go Fish! Ingredients: styrofoam meat trays, paper clips Instructions: One other variation on the go fish activity, is to make the fish out of the sytrofoam meat trays ( the ones from the grocery store). Then we put the paper clip where the fish's mouth is. then fill up the bath tub and have fun.


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