Kid's Play!
These activities, along with a few different ones are typical kid things to do.
Enjoy!
Kid's Play activities with a link have been featured on the It's All Kid's Play blog. These activities may have a photo on the blog as well as more detailed instructions than are shown here.
P.S. Wondering where a favourite activity went? The site is undergoing some changes and some of the activities have been temporarily shelved. Check back to see what's in the works.
|
Build...
|
Play...
- Dress-up
- Cars
You can make roads and cities for your cars and trucks out of blocks or paper.
- School
Who gets to be the teacher?
- With your sibling / a friend
- With G.I. Joes / Barbies or other action figures or dolls
- With
playdough or other sculpting material
- Eeny Meeny, Miny Moe
While picking a person to be 'it' or to make a choice when you can't decide, sing this song:
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
Catch a tiger by the toe.
If he hollers let him go,
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
You are not it. (Or: You are it.)
For each word, point to one of the choices.
If you are singing the 'not it' version, the one pointed to when you say 'it' is out. Keep going until you have one left.
|
| With Someone Else |
|
|
Got 5 Minutes?
|
Be Creative
- Plan a perfect ‘dream’ day
What would your perfect day be like? Would someone bring you French Toast in bed? Would you spend all day at the swimming pool? Would your brother or sister have to be your servant?
- Plan a perfect dream trip or vacation
What would your perfect trip or vacation be like? Would you spend a month at Disneyland? Would you go to summer camp? Would you drive across the planet in a fancy super car?
- Make shadow figures / shadow puppets
Shine a light against a wall in a dark room. Hold your hands up between the light and the wall and make different shapes. Can you make rabbit ears?
- Act out a story
- Mute the TV
What else could be going on? Pretend you are the people talking on TV. Is it serious or silly?
- Take pictures
If you have your own camera, you are set to go take pictures. Be creative! If you don't have one, ask to borrow one. (A disposable one is good if your parents are afraid to lend you theirs--although some reuseable digital cameras are about as cheap as a disposable one, plus it isn't as hard on the environment and you can use it over and over again.)
- Create a puppet show
Use a puppet you have or make one (as shown in the construction projects section). You can also make a puppet theatre (as shown in the construction project section) for your puppet show.
|
| Typical Kid Stuff |
-
Blow bubbles
If you don’t have bubble making stuff, you can make your own.
Materials needed:
small container (deeper is better than wider)
10 mL (2 tsp) dish soap (Joy and Dawn work well)
60 mL (¼ cup) water
5 mL (1 tsp) glycerine (You don’t have to use it, but it will make the bubbles better. You can buy it in most drug stores.)
Thin wire – about 20 cm long (for making a bubble wand)
Mix all the ingredients together in the container. To make your own bubble wand, take the wire and bend one end into a loop (a circle). You will dip the loop into the soap mixture. You can wrap yarn around the loop to make it hold more bubble solution when you dip it. Other bubble wand ideas: use a fly swatter, a hole cut in a plastic lid from a yogourt container, your hands, held in a circle shape.
HINT: The bubble mix is better the second day, so if you have the time, make it the day before.
Jump rope
You can skip by yourself and see how many times you can skip without tripping up the rope or stopping. If you have a long rope you can play with two friends. (One person on each end, spinning it around for the jumper.)
There are many jump rope songs. You can ask your parents if they know any, look some up on the Internet, in a book or make up your own. Here are a few to get you started:
Jump Rope Songs
Jump rope songs and stunts
|
