Pointless silly games to entertain toddler on rainy days

[garliclover]

Where I live there seem to be an awful lot of mums who seem able to entertain their children in highly educational ways throughout the day. Sadly I'm not one of them.
My DS goes to nursery four days a week and loves it. The rest of the time, when we're not in the playground, we're at home, and because my DP and I are unbelievably unimaginative when it comes to entertaining our 2yo DS, we spend a lot of time playing off-the-cuff silly games, e.g. putting sticky notes on each other's faces, throwing balls into bike helmets, or making mountains out of DS's soft toys.
I'd like to think I'm not the only one who does this! Anyone else willing to share their pointless games?

Your games sound fun!

My DD is only 6mo......her favourite games are:

Squeezy Feet - where we squeeze her feet while saying 'squeezy feet' in a silly voice.

Boing - where we hold her in a sitting position then lift her up and down saying 'boing' whenever we bump her bum (gently) on the floor.

And the ever popular 'Where's the baby' - hold muslin up, say where's the baby, take muslin down, say there she is!

We sing nursery rhymes, and play hide and seek.
I have a near 3 year old, with the concentration span of a gnat. She knows her numbers, abc, and loves puzzles.

I dont have names for them but ds is 2.9 and we have pillow fights with the cushions from the sofas, or hide underneath them and try to scare each other, ds likes hiding in his wardrobe and I pretend I dont know where he is

We take all the cushions off the couch or a few clothes from the dirty washing and arrange them on the floor like stepping stones and then try not to "fall in the water".

We do baking (usually just fairy cakes value packet mix as its easy for them to get right) or crispy cakes or something equally simple.

I let them "make lunch" ie I give them various fillings for pitta and they make a mess fill them as they wish.

We "clean the kitchen/bathroom/wherever" with a sponge and washing up liquid. (this is a favourite)

We dance about like loons to kiddie songs.

We have a "picnic" in the living room/kitchen where we have picnic type food on a bed sheet on the floor (usually with an assortment of teddies and action heroes)

I let them help with dinner. Pizza is a good one as they can put on the toppings or homemade meatballs where they get to squish and roll the meat into balls for me to cook.

Dcs are 4 and 3 btw

A blow up ball is great for inside. Esp as 'headers' are soft! They have a good chance to catch it too as big and goes slowly.

My DS has spent the afternoon playing with the button tin. Give him a mini muffin tin (can sort into holes) and some measuring cups and a big bowl. Entertained for hours - but, it is good as counting, colours, pretending to make button cakes, etc is all good learning as well

I love hiding stuff around the house. Something like lego bricks or wooden bricks - take ten or so and distribute around the house and then given them a bucket/bag to go and collect them - involves counting and colours and can also last for a long time without getting dull - well, for them!

We do:

Pouring large amounts of salt into a roasting pan, sometimes with miniature wooden houses added, as pretend snow

Taking the cushions off the sofa & jumping on them

Turning the sofa into a castle or cave

Pouring loads of PVA glue onto cardboard and sticking on dried beans, cut up bits of straws, googly eyes, pasta shapes etc

DS also loves 'washing up' plastic bowls & cups, but it drives me nuts so I don't let him do it very often.