Fun activities -share yours
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Topic: Fun activities -share yours
Posted By: erinalba
Subject: Fun activities -share yours
Date Posted: 26 August 2010 at 2:00pm
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Since I have started an activities group I thought it might be nice to share some of the stuff we do, and hopefully others can share their fun things so that we can try them too.
Our first meetup I made edible finger paint so babies could get involved with painting too. Here's the recipe for those who are interested: Edible Finger Paint 4 tablespoons of sugar 1/2 cup of cornflour 3 cups cold water Food colouring Stir sugar and cornflour together. While stirring, slowly add water and heat over medium heat until mixture thickens. It will thicken further when it cools. Divide into four containers and add food colouring. I'm not sure how long the paint lasts for, but I've got mine in babyfood jars and it's still ok 3 weeks later. ------------- Sue See my blog www.gojandal.com/wubboo http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: erinalba
Date Posted: 27 August 2010 at 1:51pm
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No ideas so far from anyone else???
I tend to keep cereal boxes and used them to make up a whole lot of masks - monkeys, cats and butterflies for kids to paint with sponges and decorate with glitter. Here's a few that the kids did at activities group today.  ------------- Sue See my blog www.gojandal.com/wubboo http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: NikkiB
Date Posted: 27 August 2010 at 4:06pm
That top left one looks great 
One idea I've had is, after the kids have had races on their ride ons, they could then do a car wash and wash their own ride ons! Bound to take up time, burn energy and a great activity for a beautiful summers day  ------------- A very lucky mummy to two gorgeous boys: RB 3/10/2008 JB 29/12/2009 |
Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 27 August 2010 at 5:10pm
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Sounds like fun!
Hang the jolly jumper in the garage or somewhere, put a tray of paint under it, let baby jump in the paint, then put a piece of paper under her instead - and you get a really cute footprinty painting  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: erinalba
Date Posted: 30 August 2010 at 12:22pm
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Haha Nikki - yes the top left one does look great. Your son is very talented! Love the idea for the car wash!
And T-Rex that's a great idea too. Might try that in the next few days with Briannah ------------- Sue See my blog www.gojandal.com/wubboo http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 01 September 2010 at 4:04am
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I have been collecting egg cartons for ages now, they seem like they should be really fun for creating something with but I'm not very arty inclined - can anyone inspire me with what to make with egg cartons???
Where did you get the stencil to make the masks from?? We do the same with cereal boxes but think DS would love the mask idea instead of just painting the life out of them! ------------- 
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Posted By: Troods
Date Posted: 02 September 2010 at 12:55pm
What a good idea starting this thread Sue. Funny, I was thinking about txting you to get the finger paint recipe so I can get the girls to do some artwork this afternoon for DH for father's day, when I thought I'd see if there was anything in this section first 
I don't have any creative contributions to make yet, but will be sure to add them here if I do. ------------- 
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Posted By: NikkiB
Date Posted: 02 September 2010 at 1:39pm
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Kiwikid, you could make spiders, caterpillars and trains with egg cartons.
You can use the bit the egg sits in as the body for both the spider and the caterpillar and then get some pipe cleaners for the legs. Paint them any colour you want. I had a few 1/2 dozen cartons that I threaded string through so they made a big long train. Perfect size for little people toys (and the like) to sit in and become passengers. We then took the passengers on a very exciting trip passed all these amazing places Hours of fun!------------- A very lucky mummy to two gorgeous boys: RB 3/10/2008 JB 29/12/2009 |
Posted By: NikkiB
Date Posted: 02 September 2010 at 1:41pm
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Here's another idea.
Put play dough in little containers (like yoghurt containers) and let the little ones go outside collecting twigs, leafs, flowers etc to plant in the play dough. They then have their own little garden  ------------- A very lucky mummy to two gorgeous boys: RB 3/10/2008 JB 29/12/2009 |
Posted By: erinalba
Date Posted: 03 September 2010 at 3:52pm
kiwikid, here's a spider, caterpilar and butterfly we made with egg cartons...
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Posted By: Jacobsmumma
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 2:32pm
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Oh wow, these all look great. I don't have anything to add just yet, but will defo come back when I do. My DS is 15mo and we haven't tried anything arty just yet. ------------- 
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Posted By: HuntersMama
Date Posted: 22 September 2010 at 2:43pm
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At our last PAFT group we made little shakers out of a squashed clear bottle - like a jolly drink bottle. We put a few buttons and beads inside and filled it with water and food colouring! You could also put oil in it, or nothing at all. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kimnthekids
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 8:03pm
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This could be controversial (the whole play with food thing) But we have 1 icecream container that is full of rice (whcih we coloured with a few drops of food colouring). DS asks for this daily - i bring it out onto a rug, with an assortment of spoons, bowls, shotglasses(have to find some use for them now! And then will sometimes add something like muffin trays or plastic food etc.
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Posted By: Kimnthekids
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 8:06pm
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Also changing how you play with something - like with the nicer weather finally - have been doing things like bringing the car collection downstairs into the garden, where DS will make tunnels, use the twigs and leaves to build structures...
ooo sudden thought = making a fairy house like on tinkerbell!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: erinalba
Date Posted: 01 October 2010 at 7:05am
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Thanks for that Kim - might have to try the rice play. My DS loves 'helping' me bake and loves mixing. Will be easy enough to vacuum up whatever he flings around (which I guarantee he will do).
Huntersmama - I like the idea of putting buttons and oil in a bottle. Should keep DD entertained for a while. Why does it need to be squashed though? Will need to get some more superglue to glue the lid on!! ------------- Sue See my blog www.gojandal.com/wubboo http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: NikkiB
Date Posted: 01 October 2010 at 7:27am
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I love the idea of rice too So easy and cheap, but yet hours of entertainment! I like!!!! ------------- A very lucky mummy to two gorgeous boys: RB 3/10/2008 JB 29/12/2009 |
Posted By: tiptoes
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 8:12pm
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I like the sound of an activities group. Would be a cool way to do coffee group sometime instead of just playing with regular toys (though playing with different kids toys seems to be pretty fun anyway).
Any other activities you've done erinalba? I'm especially interested in ones Briannah can do as my DS is only a couple of months older. I've ripped out loads of the ideas from my pile of Treasures Mags but many seem a little too advanced for now. I wish we'd tried the paint in the JJ like you suggested T-Rex, maybe next time. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">  
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Posted By: QTMum
Date Posted: 06 February 2011 at 9:27pm
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When I can't be bothered with mess. DS takes wa cup of water and a paint brush outside and he paints everything.
Another fun and relatively low mess activity is coffee filter buterflies. Coffee filters cost practically nothing for a big box and then you just colour them with felt pens. When you have finished sit them in a cup of water (about 1cm of water) and watch the colours flow as the ater is sucked up the filter. Let it dry and then use a pipe cleaner to finish the body. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Lisa333133896
Date Posted: 27 November 2013 at 9:08am
Wev have similar plays "with masks". My boy is big enough (6 y.o.), he is crazy about super heroes, so we make similar masks, my friends and i bought our children such hero belts http://www.supermehero.com/ninja-utility-belt.html and costumes. Even to the kindergarden our children take similar bags with super heroes... |
erinalba wrote:Posted By: Mary143082
Date Posted: 22 April 2014 at 12:15am
| Edible finger paint? God that is GENIUS! Thank you thank you thank you! |
Posted By: maybish
Date Posted: 21 August 2014 at 10:11pm
| Going to try this edible finger paint! What an amazing idea! |
Posted By: Rammie
Date Posted: 26 September 2014 at 4:46pm
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Hi Our family gets together during weekend and we play a card game (Playing cards)called Down The Creek. Does anyone play this? |
Posted By: sahithya176687
Date Posted: 26 November 2015 at 7:41pm
| Kids will have more fun if they involve in that particular activity they do. Usually, kids like to do crafts,playing with friends. Apart from this, there are so many fun activities that kids will have more fun. Here is the article to read on and learn about few fun activities that makes you kids more active. http://www.momjunction.com/articles/fun-and-interesting-activities-for-your-kid_00103444/" rel="nofollow - http://www.momjunction.com/articles/fun-and-interesting-activities-for-your-kid_00103444/ |