Share your ideas for games - stuck in with young kids

[Indecisivelurcher]

Hi all, I'm not stuck in with the kids yet, school and nursery are still open, but I know it's inevitable! I've been keeping a running list of things we could do inside. Thought I'd share it, and maybe people might have suggestions to add?

Stuck inside list

Baking
Den making
Painting
Face painting
Drawing
Obstacle course
Lego
Film
Disco party
Cosmic kids yoga
Long baths
Teddy picnic
Actual picnic in the lounge
Play dough
Musical statues
Simon says
Balloons
Clapping games
Card games
Lego
Duplo

• dice roll exercise / action game - assign each number an action
• Fake birthday party - pick a toy, it's their birthday! Make party invites, presents, birthday cards, make cakes, have a party food lunch, play pass the parcel, have a disco, wear party clothes
• Whiteboard pen frogs and tadpoles - draw them on the bath, add water, watch them float off
• Slalom course using cans, hands and knees, weave in and out, relay to collect toys
• jolly phonics
• limbo
• jumping over a stick! Move stick left and right
• fly swot - chopstick with fly, chopstick with swot, take turns
• pinball - make it out of cereal box, eg cut in half long ways, draw face, cut out round mouth, stick on obstacles, balls (playdough?) need rolling around to fall through mouth
• cup and ball games - roll balls, kids catch them under cups
• table tilt catch game - prop table legs up, roll bricks or balls down, kids catch in tub at end
• circus skills - make stilts from cans, make a balance beam, hula hoop, spin plates on sticks
• fete games - egg and spoon, splat a rat, sack race
• put videos of rollercoasters on TV and get kids to be on it... Use a basket maybe

I thought this looked good

no1hasmorefun.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-to-do-with-samuel.html?m=1

This isn't my blog but here is where it's from.

Scratch that. That is one of the places that the pic comes from. This one looks good too

Riding down the stairs on a duvet/sleeping bag (great for laughing!)
Indoor hide and seek or hide and seek in the dark at nightime
Treasure hunts around the house and garden
Indoor assault courses made from sofa cushions/tables etc
Hunt the thimble
Water play using old bottles/containers
Playing polo on the stairs
Cloud watching/star gazing in the garden
Mini beast hunts
Old fashioned party games like musical statues/bumps/sleeping lions

There's a cartoon on Cartoon Network called Clarence (if you've not seen it, you should it's great ) and in one episode, he invites his friends over for a 'dollar hunt' where he hides a dollar and then whoever finds it gets to keep it.

Might try that.

Sorry that the formatting on my list totally vanished!!

Some really good ideas. Will definitely try some of these

I bought a cheap wall clock yesterday that I thought would come in handy to teach DS how to tell the time, also bought permanent markers to colour in 'time slots' for activities each day so that both of us have a visual reminder of how the day is structured. As an example I could colour in 9.30-10.30 and label that as 'maths time' I'm not sure if it will work but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

obviously place marking!

We are working our way through this!

That looks like a big list but unfortunately it's tiny on my phone, I can't read it ;S

Hope this isn't really small... 30 day Lego challenge

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Oops @greenflower thank u

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