Activities for Children - As children do not take boring

Do you have children that are bored and you can not find ways to keep them occupied? Children are our lives but keeping them occupied in their free time can sometimes be very challenging. In this article we will give you some ideas that you are welcome to try out. We have listed some activities for Indoor, Outdoor, and Traveling. You may be surprised how much fun you can have yourself.

Indoor Activities

Story Time

Tell a story; read a book or a chapter within a book and then tell a story about it making up you own ending. Another technique is have the children set in a ring and have them to add a sentence to support the story. You can get some real funny stories this way.

Giant Easel

Buy some leftover rolls of wallpaper from a charity store or wallpaper shop. Cover a wall with the wallpaper (back side out) using tape, pins, etc. Give the children paints, crayons, chalk pens, whatever, and let them create their own drawings. The little ones can work on the bottom while the large kids can work on the top.

Wax Creations

Take some old wax crayon stubs and let the kids make shavings from them with a butter knife onto a piece of wax paper. After they are done, carefully take their wax paper with their shavings to an ironing board, lay another piece of wax paper on top of it and press briefly with a warm iron. Let the kids watch as the colors melt together. Set the wax paper creations on a table to cool and harden.

Old Clothes

Sort through your old clothes looking for some that are out of fashion or that you are too embarrassed to donate or give away. Find 2 cardboard boxes, one for "dress up" clothes and one for rags. Fill the "dress up" box with the most outrages clothes, and cut up the other clothes for the "rags" box. Let the kids play "dress up", or let them create things with the rags. This will give them hours of fun!

Puppet Show

Help the kids making finger puppets from paper and creating a "show" with a script and characters. Build up a few boxes sticking them together with packaging tape. Make the top box with an opening and hang with a curtain. (You can use one of rags from the rag box for this.) Let the kids practice until they feel really confident, and then invite a few friends or family members over to watch the "show".

Outdoor