22 Ways To Entertain Your Kidlets

Are you ready for this?? 22 totally fun things to do with your little kidlets. This may be the longest blog post EVER, it has to be a least a couple of feet long ;) I focus a great deal of our time during the day on free play. Granted we do have a schedule we stick too, there is no set-in-stone/must-do ritual to our activities. If we wanna paint, we paint, if we wanna read, we read. The day itself is set up into 'times', we have snack time, outside time, creative time, nap time and the rest flows around that. 

We all have those moments where we get ourselves into a rut and we just need a little inspiration to help us wiggle our way out. Anyway, I wanted to compile a list of the fun things we like to do around here and also give some shout outs to other awesome blogs that have inspired some of our fun activities. Having fun doesn't need to cost money or require a big planned extravaganza, you just need the tools necessary and always handy for when their little moods change. Here we go...

Up North & my in-laws, skating on the bay.

1. We happen to live in Canada and we get snow...alot, and our lakes & rivers freeze good and thick. So we get out the good ol' hockey sticks and hit the ice. So stereotypical eh?? ;)

 2. It's too cold to go swimming but a bath will do. Gather the gang and get them in the tub with bath crayons. They think they are living life on the edge every time, they get to colour on the walls!

 3. Go to a local children's museum.

4. Read books, all day, every day. There is nowhere you can't go in a book.

 5. Paint with things other than brushes. We used q-tips here. Put your different paint colours in empty egg carton trays for easy cleanup.

 6. Craft with anything you have around the house. (I'm not talking about my Grandma)

 7. Colour! Use all different forums. Crayons, markers, pencils, pencil crayons. I found these cute snowmen printouts at What the Teacher Wants.

 8. Cook something and dress up for the part while your at it. It will get messy, but the best part is, they came washable so you're good!










9. Do a science experiment. You can get tons of experiments on the web. We used our Doctor Dreadful kit for this one.

 10. Practice shapes, numbers or letters by tracing the item using stickers.

 11. Build the biggest train track you can. If you don't have a train track set, see tip #15.

 12. Get your dance on! Galaxy on Rogers has a great kids radio station we play all day and we just crank it up and get out the instruments and have a good ol' dance party!

 13. Get some toilet paper and wrap yourself as mummy's. We got this great idea from Six Sisters Stuff.

 14. Put some food colouring and water in a spray bottle and go make art in the snow. We had several bottles and mixed primary colours to get a secondary colour lesson in while we were at it. This idea was adapted from Really Quite Lucky.

 15. Make a car track out of painters or masking tape to go around the room and up and down furniture. We got this idea from The Mother Huddle.

 16. Make an indoor slide with your legs. Prop them up on the couch, ottoman or table and they are ready to go!

 17. If you have a tent, no one said it's only for outside. Pop it up and let them go. My kidlets will spend hours inside when we pop it up, they think it's a jungle gym or something. Throw some soft balls in there and it's even more fun!

 18. Make a snowman!

19. Have a concert. My kidlets will perform what they call a 'Silly Town Concert'. You don't need to know how to play a specific instrument, a lot can be said for the shakers or triangle, trust me!

 20. Go tobogganing.

21. Body paint with washable body crayons. This is another rebel activity ;)

 22. And last, but certainly not least...snuggle, snuggle, snuggle.









Hope you found some inspiration, go have fun!

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