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Give me a project for my 8 year old daughter please

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Givemestrength23 · 18/04/2025 13:00

She loves dancing, music, drawing, colouring, some crafting. We've got into a screen rut and I'm about to ramp up the limits but need something to suggest as an alternative. She will not play with toys. ADHD likely.
Suggestions gratefully received!

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Hmm765 · 18/04/2025 13:00

Lego? Expensive but keeps my daughter busy!

MrsSkylerWhite · 18/04/2025 13:01

Making jewellery/lego/knitting or sewing/cooking.

starrystarrynight88 · 18/04/2025 13:06

I have a 8 year old girl too. We've done the following this Easter:
Made slime
Made playdough (lovely when it's first made and still warm)
Baked (we love Jane's Patisserie website for great recipes)
Made Easter decorations (bunting, window decorations)

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Needmorelego · 18/04/2025 13:17

If I had the space I have always wanted to have an empty dolls house and decorate and make furniture for it.
I have seen little balsa wood sets of furniture on line that you can just slot/glue together then paint etc.

skippy67 · 18/04/2025 13:19

Cross-stitch.

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 18/04/2025 13:20

Sewing
Paint by numbers.

Phunkychicken · 18/04/2025 13:23

got DD to make Stonehenge out of cheap own brand Weetabix for a school project once. Took her hours and led her down a useful rabbit hole

GailTheSnail · 18/04/2025 13:23

Build a bug hotel? Can go for a walk to gather the stuff and then when done keep a watch what goes in, in next few days

Needmorelego · 18/04/2025 13:24

Phunkychicken · 18/04/2025 13:23

got DD to make Stonehenge out of cheap own brand Weetabix for a school project once. Took her hours and led her down a useful rabbit hole

That's fantastic 😂

MaMisled · 18/04/2025 13:25

Paints! Make Saltdough and paint.

Buy (very) cheap canvases from Home Bargains, Pound Shops.

Buy a few tiles to paint on.

Buy her a notebook and go for a walk, jotting down what you see.

Find her old shorts and vest top and let her paint herself in the bath.

Paint pasta tubes with fliwers, suns etc and make jewellery

Choose a song and make up a dance routine.

NerrSnerr · 18/04/2025 13:26

We do Lego, painting (paint by numbers for longer projects and painting pottery stuff for a quick project). Tie dye is always a hit too.

BottleBlondeMachiavelli · 18/04/2025 13:33

Something that combines sewing skills. Something she could wear? Folk design embroidery is having a moment.

IkaBaar · 18/04/2025 13:33

Diamond dotz? They can take ages.

Edited to add they had a cheap version in the middle of Lidl when we last went.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 18/04/2025 14:15

Cooking and baking

Get her to chose a theme (Eg Spanish, Japanese, Finger food..) and prepare a meal. Research recipes on line, write a menu in the appropriate language, make decorations etc. and make the food!

Jsidken · 18/04/2025 14:18

Learn to make bead or friendship bracelets

Neveragain35 · 18/04/2025 14:38

Does she like cooking? Loads of easy recipes online. Pizza dough is particularly good as it doesn’t need many ingredients and takes ages kneading the dough etc, then rolling it out and choosing toppings… plus you also get dinner!

Somuchfree · 18/04/2025 14:40

Origami? Lots of cute animal options.

Fluffyflipflop · 18/04/2025 14:46

Pebble painting was a winner when my daughter was 8. Actually it still is now she’s 10! You can buy sacks of pebbles from home bargains. We paint them with acrylic white paint first and let them dry. Then paint patterns or pictures with acrylic paint. If you can afford it, posca pens are amazing. We still have some in the garden that have lasted years.

To add to the project, you could go for a walk and hide them places for people to find.
My daughter still remembers an old lady finding one she did and saying she keeps it by her sink.

Shmee1988 · 18/04/2025 14:55

Have you tried the shell/rock painting and the rehiding thing? It was massive here last year. If not, what you do is find a bunch of rocks or shells, paint pictures on them and then hide them in the local commity for other people to find and re-hide. When it started here, someone opened a 'rock finding challenge' page on face book and wrote the name of the page on the bak of the rock. They asked that when a rock was found, the finder post a picture of it on the page before hiding it somewhere else. So many kids took part and they were spending hours outside hunting them and painting there own. There was 100's of people on the page 😀 painting them, letting them dry, hiding them etc all takes time and involves fresh air and exercise

Conkerjar · 18/04/2025 15:18

Make friends with crows. Start with some info about what they like/don't like, it's easy to find. Did this years ago with my kid for home ed, had a notebook where we wrote down what we saw when, when we fed them, where etc.

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