Soap bubbles can be used almost endlessly. At least until the solution runs out. To prevent this from happening soon, make a large supply: 3.5 liters of water, a glass of dishwashing liquid, a tablespoon of glycerin. The barrel of solution is ready!
22. Drawing without stains
If you pour a little shower gel mixed with dyes into a durable, hermetically sealed bag, your child will be able to draw futuristic pictures with his fingers without getting dirty!
23. DIY car wash
Kids can play for hours in the bathroom with a real car wash, which can be made from a five-liter plastic jerry can, scouring pads and water-resistant adhesive tape.
From the canister you need to cut out the body of the sink with entry and exit. Cut dish sponges into thin long sticks and glue them vertically to the ceiling of the sink. Use permanent markers to color the design. Place shaving foam in empty yogurt containers, take old toothbrushes and toy cars. The imagination will do the rest.
24. Science experiment with balloons
Show your child a chemical experiment in the kitchen. Pour a spoonful of soda into the balloon and into the empty one plastic bottle pour vinegar. Place the ball onto the neck of the bottle and secure tightly. Gradually pour the baking soda from the balloon into the bottle. The neutralization reaction will release large amounts of carbon dioxide, which will inflate the balloon.
25. Frozen Dinosaur Egg
If your child loves dinosaurs, show him how ancient lizards hatched from eggs. Place a dinosaur figurine in a balloon and fill it with colored water, then put the balloon in the freezer. When the water freezes, call the young paleontologists. Remove the “shell” of the ball from the eggs and look at the dinosaur in the ice. You can remove the toy using a small hammer (you just need to do this with swimming goggles so that small pieces of ice do not damage your eyes).
26. Banana ice cream
You can make popsicles with just one ingredient. Take bananas (preferably slightly overripe), peel and cut into thin pieces. Place in the freezer. After a couple of hours, remove the frozen bananas and blend in a blender until the mixture resembles thick sour cream. The ice cream can be eaten immediately or put into molds and re-frozen. Older children can handle the cooking themselves!
Children are a good shake-up for the parent's mind, imagination and creativity! Agree - we, parents, need to be constantly on guard, our brain must constantly work in order to once again distract from a forbidden item or come up with a way to put a jacket on a running child. Very often we have to figure out what to do with our child. Yes, it is very important to leave the child alone so that he learns to invent games on his own, so that he can explore the world on his own. But there are times when he really needs us. This list interesting activities for children will help you, inspire you, add joy and diversify your daily life.
Interesting ideas for keeping a bored baby occupied:
- Build a castle or hut from home furniture, blankets, pillows, etc.
- Make a card or write a letter to your grandmother, godmother, cousin, etc.
- Make paper dolls and clothes for them.
- Take a magnet and play metal detector. Search the entire house for metal.
- Play with roulette. Measure everything in the house with its help.
- Throw a disco with some naughty music.
- Clean the bathroom, wash the mirror with a sponge and soap, and wash the sink with the same sponge.
- Paint. There are many ideas for unusual drawing. You can take a look here: .
- Make a cardboard house or work hard on cardboard box to make something interesting out of it. Find ideas here: .
- Learn a poem, tongue twister or counting rhyme.
- Look at the clouds and look for different images in them.
- Do origami. First, make an airplane and a boat. Find more complex ideas here: .
- Decorate. This is also good way relieve stress.
- Hide the “treasure” for dad and draw a map of the apartment, which he will use to look for this treasure in the evening.
- Make a home puppet theater.
- Clean up the room. To the music, while playing, sort toys, wash the floor.
- Make up a fairy tale.
- Make a collage by cutting out pictures from old newspapers and magazines.
- Prepare lunch with mom.
- Start marking important dates on the calendar.
- Freeze juice or pieces of fruit.
- Play a board game.
- Decorate an old T-shirt using buttons, fabric markers, and beads.
- Read.
- Plant the seeds in a pot and start caring for them.
- Make a bird feeder.
- Blow bubbles.
- Play in a store, restaurant, create a zoo out of toys.
During the long, dark evenings, parents have to be incredibly creative to find activities for their offspring to do around the house. You can, of course, limit yourself to watching TV and playing computer games, but even the most retarded parents know that this is not the most useful pastime.
Let us also find activities for our children that are more appropriate than passively sitting in front of a screen. And at the same time, let’s show imagination and humor.
Games are active.
"Running with a Ball" . We hand the child a tablespoon and a table tennis ball. Task: put the ball in a spoon and carry it throughout the apartment without dropping it. From 3 years old.
"Rope Walker" . Hands to the sides. Task: walk along the edge of the carpet like a tightrope walker. You can spread out the rope. From 2 years old.
"Mini football". We mark goals on the carpet (with pins, for example), and arm ourselves with a table tennis ball. Objective: to score as many goals as possible into the “enemy’s” goal. It is recommended to involve a dad who is a fan to explain the rules of football to the child. From 3 years old.
"Baba Yaga" . Lay out the rope in the shape of a circle on the carpet. This is the Witch's house, where one of the players settles. The rest are crawling around the “house”, and the Witch is trying to catch and drag them to her. From 2 years old.
"Ghosts" . We put on sheets and rush around the apartment with terrible howls. From 4 years old.
"Hide and seek." We hide an object in the room and give instructions to search for it. From 4 years old.
"Locomotive". The family lines up in a train, clinging to each other, and travels around the apartment with appropriate sounds. From 2 years old.
"Towns". We replace the skittles with cubes, the bat with a tennis ball. We build towers from cubes and knock them down with a ball. From 2 years old.
"Duteli" . We blow on the caps of plastic bottles with the goal of making them fly the farthest. From 3 years old.
"Pyramid" . We build a pyramid from plastic bottle caps: the first layer is 10 caps, the second is 9, the third is 8, etc. After that, we destroy it with a precise hit from a table tennis ball. From 5 years.
"Juggler". We inflate the balloon tightly and throw it into the air. The task: to prevent him from falling for as long as possible. From 4 years old.
"Horses" . When you get tired of juggling with a ball, we sit astride it and jump until it bursts. From 2 years old.
"Blind chicken" We close our eyes and try to walk around the room without hitting anything. From 3 years old.
"Sliders" . We lie on our backs and crawl around the room, trying not to drop anything. From 4 years old.
"Fast walkers." We put on dad's shoes and try to run around the apartment the fastest. From 2 years old.
Intellectual games.
"Quick Thinker" . We name the word - the child must name the association that has arisen in connection with this word. We continue the chain until our imagination runs out. From 5 years old.
"Counting crows." Looking out the window, we count the passing cars. We determine their color, size and brand. From 5 years old.
"We fantasize about people." We drag a chair to the window, look at people running down the street, and make up stories about them. From 4 years.
"Kalya-malya" . Draw a squiggle on a piece of paper. The child must draw it to something recognizable. From 3 years old.
"Zoo" . We depict an animal, the rest must guess it. From 5 years old.
"Sounders" . We close our eyes and try to guess which of those present hummed, meowed or croaked. From 4 years old.
"Domino Ribbon" We painstakingly and carefully build a long ribbon of dominoes, placing them on a short edge. Then we carefully drop the first domino and enjoy the spectacle of the entire ribbon falling. From 2 years old.
"Sorters" . We empty mom’s wallet and sort the coins. From 3 years old.
"Come up with a name." On the pad of each finger we draw a face with a pen. Task: come up with a name for each character. From 2 years old.
Craft games.
"City" . On a piece of Whatman paper we draw the streets of the city - with roads and houses. Signs can also be used traffic. We wait for the paints to dry and start driving through the streets in toy cars. From 2 years old.
"Counterfeiters." We place the coins under the paper and rub the sheet with a soft pencil until the relief of the money is outlined. Cut it out, put it in your wallet and play store. From 5 years old.
"Collage" . We take my mother’s glossy magazines, cut out pictures from them on a certain topic (flowers, dogs) and glue them in the form of a collage onto a sheet of paper. From 3 years old.
"Book" . Again we take my mother’s glossy magazines, cut out the pictures, paste them into a notebook or notepad. We decorate the cover - a new word in the world of fashion magazines is ready! From 4 years old.
"Dollhouse". We take a box from under dad’s boots, cover it with beautiful paper or leftover wallpaper, cut out windows and a door. Furniture can be made from empty matchboxes. Or glue it from cardboard. We also draw the inhabitants on paper and cut them out. From 5 years old.
"Farm" . We draw animals on cardboard, color them, cut them out, and glue a strip of cardboard for the stand. Let's play farm. Or a zoo. Or a circus. From 5 years old.
"Distance Voyage" . We take walnut shells, glue a piece of plasticine to the bottom, and stick a toothpick with a paper sail into it. We launch boats in the bathtub or basin. From 2 years old.
"Heart Necklace"
We cut out hearts from colored paper, make a hole with an awl and string them on a rope. We put it on all guests. From 5 years old.
"Omelette". Cut out a circle from yellow cardboard. We make pieces of vegetables from colored paper, glue them, and treat them to the household. You can call it "pizza". From 3 years old.
"Engravings". We paint over a sheet of cardboard with colored wax crayons, and put a layer of black paint on top. Using a pin, we scratch out the patterns so that colored curls and spirals appear through the black background. From 4 years old.
"Man-making" . We take dad’s trousers and shirt and carefully lay them out on the floor. We cut out a face from paper, give it a resemblance to dad, and attach it to the figure on the floor. We do the same with the clothes of the rest of the family. From 4 years old.
Theater games.
"Makeup" . We give the child watercolor paints and set the task: to paint himself like a tiger. From 4 years old.
"Role Reversal" . Adults and children change roles for the whole evening. We look at ourselves from the outside and are horrified. From 5 years old.
"Salon". We come up with hairstyles and put it into practice. You can use Barbie. Or maybe my mother. From 4 years old.
In the period from 5 to 7 years, the child develops initiative. He tries to do everything himself and gets upset when he doesn’t succeed. Therefore, when coming up with activities for a child of this age, it is necessary to take into account that insufficient development of initiative will lead to difficulties. A person will only do what he is asked to do. The motto for a 7-year-old child is “I want to do this.” This is the period when the child learns to determine for himself what he wants and why he wants it. Parents need to help him express his desires and set goals.
A child's activities at home at 7 years old can be divided into several types. They can be used in combination with each other, taking into account the fact that children of this age are able to maintain attention and concentration on one type of activity for 10-15 minutes.
Reading books and children's magazines
Drawing
All children love to draw. Drawing classes can be different:
- Encryption. Encrypt the picture with numbers or icons. Take a coloring book and label the colors with specific symbols. Write the explanation of the symbols at the bottom of the page under the picture. Icons are numbers, letters or faces.
- Sketching. Ask your child to redraw a picture from a magazine or draw on a given topic. For example, “Draw your New Year’s gift.”
- Finishing drawing. Draw a dog without a nose, tail or ears and ask your child to fill in the missing details and color the dog.
- Symmetry. This is a game with colors. Take a landscape sheet and fold it in half. On a palette, mix a little paint with soapy water and apply it onto one side of the sheet with a brush. Fold the paper in half and press. Open it up and look at the symmetrical abstract picture. Complete the missing elements and let the drawing dry. You may end up with a butterfly or a flower. You can make drawings using thread in the same way. Dip the thread into the paint and apply it to half of the sheet, cover with the other half and press.
- Impressions. Take a rectangular piece of peeled potato and use a knife to cut a convex shape on the cut. Dip the cut in paint and make an imprint on paper. The shapes can be different: elements of grass, rectangles, circles, flowers or hearts.
- Abstraction. Draw lines in a chaotic order throughout the entire sheet to create different geometric shapes. Color each shape so that the same colors do not touch each other.
Modeling from plasticine, salt dough and polymer clay
Modeling not only develops fine motor skills fingers, but also contributes to the development of fantasy and spatial imagination. Plasticine is different from polymer clay the fact that after heat treating the clay, you will receive a souvenir for a friend in the form of a figurine or keychain.
You can make your own polymer clay.
- Place 2 tbsp in a deep plate. spoons of starch, 2 tbsp. spoons of PVA glue, 1 teaspoon of glycerin, 0.5 teaspoons of Vaseline, ¼ teaspoon of baby oil and mix well so that there are no lumps.
- Grate 0.5 tsp paraffin on a fine grater. and add citric acid. Stir and microwave at full power for 5-7 seconds. Stir again and leave for 6-7 seconds. Repeat the procedure.
- Place the mixture on a plastic board and knead with a spatula until the clay reaches the desired consistency. Store clay in cling film or a container in the refrigerator.
You can make an applique painting from plasticine or salt dough.
- Take a piece of paper and draw with a simple pencil picture. Glue layers of plasticine or dough on top of the sheet desired color. You will get a three-dimensional picture.
- You can buy the dough at the store, or you can make it yourself. Take 2 cups of flour, mix with a glass of extra salt, 1 tbsp. vegetable oil and ¾ warm water. Knead the dough and divide into portions. Add a little gouache to each serving. Stir until smooth.
You can decorate the finished dried product. Store the dough in the refrigerator tightly wrapped in cling film. To prevent the dough from sticking to your hands, regularly grease them with sunflower oil. The finished dough product should be baked at a temperature below 100C for about 2 hours.
Making a home theater
A 7-year-old child can make scenery and several figures for a home theater, come up with a script and act out a small scene. Of great interest is the production of the main characters of the scene. They can be made from paper, plasticine or using the papier-mâché technique. Use several types of creativity: appliqué, sculpting, drawing and folding.
Papier-mâché
- Take toilet paper or newspaper and tear it into medium pieces into a deep plate.
- Add PVA glue, mixing with paper until it reaches the consistency of plasticine.
- Place a half-liter plastic bottle on a board covered with polyethylene and cover it with a thin layer of dampened paper. This will be the character's torso.
- You can place the head of a rubber toy on the neck of the bottle and cover it with paper. You can sculpt the head yourself using a thick layer of paper.
- After drying, paint the figure with gouache or acrylic paints.
Origami or paper crafts
To make theater characters, you can use the origami technique. It involves folding paper in a certain way to form a shape. A simple way to make animals or people is to glue the torso and head separately. The body can be a cone, and the head can be an applique or a pattern on an oval. Such figures are stable and easy to make.
For theater decorations, you can use a simple drawing on a sheet or an applique made of colored paper.
Constructor
Folding construction sets is every child’s favorite pastime. If you have many different construction sets, mix them and build an original building or city.
Chemical experiments
It will be interesting for the child to carry out simple chemical experiments and get amazing results.
- Inflating a balloon with a bottle. Pour a glass of vinegar into a plastic bottle. Pour 3 tsp into the ball. soda Place a ball on the neck of the bottle and pour baking soda into the vinegar. The balloon will inflate on its own.
- Volcano lava. Take a tall beer glass, pour ½ glass tomato juice and ½ cup sunflower oil. Add 2 effervescent aspirin tablets. You will see large lava-like bubbles forming from the tomato juice.
- Pierce the balloon with orange zest. Peel the orange. Blow up some balloons. Squeeze a few drops of orange zest over the ball. The ball will burst. Limonene, which is in the zest, dissolves rubber.
- Secret message. Squeeze a few drops of lemon juice onto a plate. Add the same amount of water and stir. Write with this mixture using a toothpick or cotton swab something on the sheet and let it dry. After this, bring the sheet to the fire of a gas burner or pass the flame of a candle. The letters will turn brown and appear. You will be able to read the message.
- Rainbow in a glass. Take several identical glasses. Pour some warm water into each glass. Pour 1 tbsp into the second glass. l. sugar, in the third - 2 tbsp. l. sugar, in the fourth - 3, etc. Add a couple drops of dye to each glass different colors. Stir the liquid until the sugar dissolves. Pour some sugar-free liquid into a clean glass. Using a large syringe without a needle, draw liquid from a glass containing 1 spoon of sugar and slowly squeeze it onto the sugar-free liquid. Add syrups as sugar increases. As a result, you will get a rainbow in a glass.
1. Let in sunbeams.
2. Watch the seeds germinate.
3. Slide down a high icy mountain together.
4. Bring a branch from the frost and put it in water.
5. Cut jaws from orange peels.
6. Look at the stars.
7. Shade coins and leaves hidden under the paper.
8. Shake the pencil until it appears to be flexible.
9. Punch holes in ice under running water. 
10. Prepare burnt sugar in a spoon.
11. Cut out garlands of paper people.
12. Show shadow theater.
13. Throw pancakes on the water.
14. Draw a cartoon in the margins of your notebook.
15. Set up a home in a refrigerator box.
16. Weave wreaths.
17. Make a volcano erupt from citric acid and soda.
18. Show a trick with electrified paper figures.
19. Write as a carbon copy.
20. Make bottle squirters and have a battle.
21. Listen to birds singing.
22. Let wood chips flow, dig channels and make dams.
23. Build a hut.
24. Shake a tree branch when a child is standing under it and cause leaf fall (snowfall, rain).
25. Watch the sunrise and sunset.
26. Admire the lunar path.
27. Look at clouds and imagine what they look like.
28. Make a weather vane and a wind trap.
29. Shine in the dark with a flashlight.
30. Make octopuses from dandelions and dolls from rose hips.
31. Go fishing.
32. Leave body prints in the snow.
33. Feed the birds.
34. Make secrets.
35. Build a house from furniture.
36. Sitting by the fire. Fry bread on a twig.
37. Fly a kite.
38. Twist the child by the arms.
39. Build a sand castle. Bury yourself in the sand. Dig a deep well to reach water.
40. Sitting in the dark, by candlelight.
41. Making devils out of soaped hair.
42. Blow into an empty bottle.
43. Repeat one word many times so that it turns into another.
44. Make a victorious cry of the Kamanches.
45. Be surprised by your giant shadow and play catch-up with the shadows.
46. Jump into the center of the puddle.
47. Taking notes with milk.
48. Create a storm in a glass of water.
49. Bury a treasure in a bowl of porridge.
50. Explain with signs.
51. Make noses from maple wings, orders from burdock, earrings from cherries.
52. Blow on the fluff.
53. Leave a blade of grass in the anthill and then try formic acid.
54. Eat hare cabbage, suck resin, lick birch sap and maple syrup, chew blades of grass. 
55. Use cookie cutters to squeeze out cookies.
56. String berries on a blade of grass.
57. Play Cyclops.
58. Sing in chorus.
59. Fix your favorite toy.
60. Blow bubbles.
61. Decorate the Christmas tree.
62. Whistle through an acacia pod.
63. Make a dollhouse.
64. Climb a tree.
65. Play ghosts.
66. Invent fancy dress costumes and dress up.
67. Talk about dreams.
68. Beat on a homemade drum.
69. Release a balloon into the sky.
70. Organize a children's party.
71. Look at the world through colored pieces of glass.
72. Draw on foggy glass.
73. Jump into piles of autumn leaves.
74. Start lunch with dessert.
75. Put your own clothes on the child.
