If you want to spend some quality time with your kids, you can do so without having to go out. Here are 10 creative activities you can do at home:
- Build a Fort – Use your furniture, drapes and portable lights to create a fort where you and the kids can stay in and shut out the outside world for a little while.
- Dress Up – You and the children can use whatever you find in your closet to dress up as their favorite characters or personalities.
- Draw and Color – Make this activity more amusing by having your kids use unusual colors for their drawings and then giving it names.
- Charade – For your category, use people that the children frequently meet, such as their teachers, relatives and neighbors. You’ll be surprised how hilarious your impersonations can be.
- Window Art – This one’s perfect for rainy days. Use watercolor to paint a tableau of anything you can think of on any clear window in the house.
- Googly Eyes – If ever you have some googly eyes lying around in a drawer, you and the kids can paste these on any pictures in the house to make it look silly.
- Board Games – Playing games like Monopoly, Scrabble and Cluedo are a great way to pass the time while stimulating the minds of your younglings.
- Active Games – If you’ve got an energetic bunch, you can have more fun playing active games like hide and seek or even wrestling.
- Video Games – Choose games that involve a lot of people, such as Mario Kart, exercise games on Wii or guessing games that will need everyone’s input.
- Drama Play – Borrow the plot of a fairy tale and then have everyone act the story while making up your lines as you go along.