Investing purposeful meaningful time with your youngsters can never be replaced. Regardless of the amount of the toys they may have, the money you give them, and buying them things all the time. It will never measure up to just being with you.
Do I spend each waking minute connecting with my children? No… a long way from it. I have confidence in the benefit of educating my kids to have individual playtime as well. They have to learn that someone will not always be with them to keep them entertained at every waking moment. All things considered, I have a house to keep up, grown-up connections to cultivate, and additionally a drive to seek my individual advantages and business interests. I do, in any case, try to invest a few standard openings of energy with them day by day.
Do you ever get stuck wondering, what should we do? Or, what is there to do, and the kids screaming “IM BORED”? Of course, every parent does. Today’s society has put us into a technological world where we have almost forgotten how to have fun, find games to play, free things to do, or just go outside and enjoy the grass between our toes.
I have compiled a list of 100 different fun activities for kids that I used to do as a child, and things I have done with my children as well.
100 Fun Activities For Kids
- Bowling
- Go on a Scavenger Hunt
- Draw/Color together
- Go for a walk
- Play Simon Says
- Bake sugar cookies and decorate
- Play Dress Up
- Turn the music on and dance
- Wash the cars together
- Go swimming Indoor/Outdoor
- Paint
- Watch a Movie Together with popcorn
- Build a fort in the living room
- Surprise your child for lunch at school
- Go to the park
- Go outside and play with the dog
- Go to the mountains for the day
- Go to the museum
- Visit the Library and pick out a book
- Go to the movies
- Go out for ice cream
- Cook dinner together
- Finger Paint
- Have a water balloon fight
- Plant flowers together
- Play Hide and Seek
- Take a hike
- Take the dog for a walk
- Visit the Fire Station
- Go to the mall
- Visit the Pet store and look at the pets
- Make hand puppets
- Go rock hunting in the creek
- Go out Leaf hunting for different fall leaves
- Go camping
- Fly a Kite
- Go for a bike ride together
- Play Simon Says
- Play basketball or any sport
- Play Mario or any gaming system you may have
- Tell jokes
- Play “I Spy”
- Go outside and lay on a blanket when it’s warm and stare at the stars
- Look for four-leaf clovers
- Read together
- Tell stories about when they were babies
- Sidewalk Chalk
- Hop Scotch
- Pay FourSquare
- Teach them about birds
- Create a science experiment, like the baking soda volcano
- Start a scrapbook together
- Take Pictures
- Visit Relatives
- Visit the neighbors
- Visit a nursing home
- Write a story together
- Go Fishing
- Catch lightning bugs
- Jump Rope
- Exercise Together
- Just go outside and run around
- Play tag
- Build a snowman
- Make snow angels
- Have a picnic
- Play a board game
- Sing
- Go through old baby pictures
- Go roller skating or ice skating
- Rearrange their bedroom together
- Make bracelets
- Make Christmas tree ornaments
- Decorate Pine Cones For Christmas or just to put around the house
- Go to the dollar store, and let them pick out one thing
- Make a tie-dye shirt
- Decorate Stockings for Christmas
- Make mud pie’s outside, just don’t eat them lol
- Paint Rocks and go hide in the community
- Have the kids help clean
- Role Play as Ghost Hunters
- Put on a play together
- Make s’mores/Roast marshmallows
- Have a camp out in the backyard
- Have a camp out in the living room
- Create an alphabet treasure hunt
- Have a Lemonade Sale
- Play Red light, Green Light
- Have a tea party and invite all the stuffed animals
- Play cowboys and Indians, and use the furniture as your cover
- Have an indoor picnic on a rainy day
- Do a paper mache project
- Play restaurant with the kids, let them create a menu and cook
- Go see a play together
- Lay outside and see what animals/shapes you can find in the clouds
- Go to Goodwill, Dollar store, or find some old frames to decorate for presents for the family
- Make Homemade Slime
- Make a tie blanket together
- Write an early letter to Santa to see if you are being good this year
- Just go outside, run, laugh, and make memories
Remember that every day that goes by, your children will be a day older. They finally grow into adults and you may hardly see them anymore. It’s time to start making memories that they will share with their children, and as always we are never promised tomorrow. Until next time my friends, happy hunting and playing!
Yours Truly,
Heather
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