Everyday Activities
- Playdough
- Bubbles!
- Running through sprinkler
- Going to carwash (the $5 where you stay in car!)
- Baking something or making smoothie or blender ice cream
- Making bird feeders (stack cheerios on pipe cleaners)
- Going on a nature walk
- Gardening
- Mixing baking soda and vinegar
- Dying eggs (why not!)
- Park/playground
- Splash Pad
- Painting
- Coloring
- Dancing
- Nature Walk
- Looking at the clouds and stars
- Singing
- Reading,
- Visiting the Library
- Watercolor Crayons
- Water play (water in large tube with lots of bowls cups scoopers to pour)
- Car/bike wash
- Kinetic sand or regular sand
- Sensory bins (I made rainbow rice and pasta and mixed in random beans…super messy but the messier the better)
- Blow up balloons and play keep it off the floor
- Some malls have kid play areas
- Cozy up with a bunch of books
- Tie Dye
- Wash the Windows
- Wash the House
- Let them wash anything that’s safe lol, watch for fireflies at night
- Plant a small garden or even one pot, library storytime
- Berry picking
- Open ended art (let them have free time with basic art supplies, not a Pinterest project)
- Find a horse stable where we can go watch the horsies jumping etc!
- Squirt bottles painting
- Standing pool noodle game (kids hold standing noodle and pass without falling down
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