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Did you run out of ideas or don't know what else to do with the kids? If you said yes then this is the page for you. This page has games and activity for the kids while you're at your job.
If you have ideas to share with other babysitters, feel free to submit your Arts
and Crafts at the end of this page!
| Outdoor Play | Activities | Action Songs | Make a kite, windsock, or
Halloween ghost | Camping | Parade | Make A Postcard | Monster Spray | Bug Hunting |
Shake it up ice-cream | Play Dough | The Mask Game | House | Have fun with goop | Make a tent | Butter Noodles | Nature Bracelets | Paper Jewelry | Snake | Bat Puppet | Scavenger Hunt | Pinecone Turkeys | Submit your Crafts |
Quick Ideas For Outdoor Play
Tag
Kickball
Simon Says
Statues
Races
Hop Scotch
Red Light/ Green Light
Leap Fro
Freeze Tag
Duck, Duck, Goose
Activities
Bike riding
Big wheel riding
Ball Catching
Jump rope
Swinging
Blowing Bubbles
Action Songs
Ring Around the Rosy
A Tisket, a Tasket
I'm a Little Teapot
London Bridge
Hookie Pookie
Follow the Leader
Make A Kite, Windsock or Halloween Ghost!
Materials:
Lunch bag (white for ghosts), crayons, markers, stickers, etc. for decorating the bag.
Tail:
use streamers (white for "ghosts"), ribbons, paper strips (used gift
wrapping paper works well). String or yarn to fly the kite
CAUTION: String/ yarn should be no longer then the child's underarm.
Preparation:
Decorate the kite (lunch bag). Wind socks might be decorated in lots of colors. Two dark colored ovals may be glued on for the eyes of ghosts. Take kite tails to bottom of lunch bag. (Do not cut out bottom of bag. It will be much stronger with the bottom still attached.)
String Attachment:
Put a piece of tape about one inch from the open end of the bag, seam where it is glued, fold over tape on the inside too.
This will result in a place with 4 thicknesses: 2 of tape and 2 of paper. With a paper punch, punch a small hole through
the tape. Thread the string/yarn through the hole and knot.
Play:
These kites run on KID-POWER.
Cautions:
Do not use plastic bags.
Fly kites only in safe areas. Never on the stairs.
String/yarns should be no longer then the child's underarm. There are 2 reasons for this.
First: longer strings can pose a greater risk of danger.
Second: Kites are easier to fly with shorter strings because they won't be dragging on the ground.
It is always a good idea to check with a responsible adult.
Camping
Use your imagination...
- A blanket can be a tent, sleeping bag, sail for a boat.
- Blocks can be a campfire, supplies, & groceries, fish, rocks to mark trails.
- Boxes can be pots, pans, lanterns, cameras.
- A really big box can be a canoe.
- Cardboard tubes can be a telescope, binoculars, fishing pole.
- Make your campsite into a fort or clubhouse.
- Pick a name and make a flag-- fly it high!
- Try camping on the moon, or hunting fossils (dinosaur bones?).
- Make a game as you go along.
Have fun!
Parade
Summer is the season for parades. We all watch them, but it is lots of fun to make a parade and be in it
- Decorate Big Wheels, wagons.
- Tear pieces of fabric or left-over gift-wrap for streamers.
- Don't forget flags! Make some if none are handy.
- Pieces of tissue paper can be made into bows or flowers.
- Include a band!
- Make instruments: a pan & a spoon, bowl/lid filled with dried beans or rice....
- Or carry a tape player with your marching music.
Make A Postcard
Material: Post card weight cardboard (a paper plate can be used), markers, stickers....
Preparation: Cut out postcards 3 1/2" x 5 1/4" of use one as a pattern.
- On the front side: have the child draw a picture, decorate with stickers, or write a message,
Hi Granny! On the back, print the mailing address.
- Try mailing a postcard back to the child that made it!
- Send a postcard before you visit: "I can't wait to see you Saturday afternoon!
- Make a postcard for the child & tuck it in their slippers or someplace they will find it when they wake. " We had fun last night!
- Children enjoy playing mailman/lady -- use buckets or boxes for mailboxes...
- Save stickers to use as pretend stamps.
- Make us your own way to play...
- You can make your own "thank you" notes or party invitations.
- Share your ideas for games & uses for make-your-own-postcards!
Monster Spray
Ok, First get a squirt bottle and empty it out until there is less then an inch of water is
left! Decorate a piece of paper that says Monster Spray. If the kid is afraid of monsters under their bed spray it before they go to bed (Spray it under the bed) Even let the
child spray it! This works! Give it a Try!
Submitted By: K.T
Bug Hunting
1. You need some plastic bugs.
2. You can make the binoculars with toilet paper rolls taped together
and you can decorated them with wrapping paper and stickers.
3. You hide the bugs all over a room and have the kids find them! They
love it!!!!!!!!
Submitted By: Katie
Shake it Up Ice cream!!
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 cup milk or half and half
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 tablespoons rock salt
1 pint-size zip-type plastic bag
1 gallon-size zip-type plastic bag
Fill the large bag half full of ice, and add the rock salt. Seal the bag.
Put milk, vanilla extract, and sugar into the small bag, and seal it.
Place the small bag inside the large one and seal again carefully.
Shake until mixture is ice cream, about 5 minutes.
*Yummy*
Submitted By: Michelle
Play Dough
If you want to get messy and so do the kids then go to the kitchen and make this, play dough.
ingredients:
500 ml(2 cup) baking soda
250ml (1 cup) corn starch
300 ml ( 1 and a 1/4 cup) cold water
food coloring
what you do:
stir baking soda and corn starch in a pan. Add cold water. Cook over medium heat, stirring
constantly (all the time). Add food coloring. When the mixture looks like moist, mashed potatoes,
turn onto plate and cover with damp cloth. When cool enough to touch, knead and roll out. Use like
modeling clay. Object will harden overnight.
if you can not remember this info then either right click threw this hole info then left click
and copy and paste onto a blank sheet or go and take the baby sitting course what every babysitter
should know and get the book with information in it. Not only is this fun for the kids. When the
parents ask you to bath them then you at least have a reason that they will understand. It is
also fun for you cause you can actually get involved and not sit there almost bored to death. well have fun
Submitted By: mum
The Mask Game
Make masks from paper plates and popsicle sticks. Cut out a butterfly or draw a little girl or little boy face on the plate.
Color it with markers and stick on cotton balls or yarn for decoration. Let the kids come up with there own idea,
it lets them have a mind of their own.
Tape the popsicle stick on so the kids can hold the masks up to their faces.
This is a game for kids from ages 3- 6 but older children will get bored very quick with this game
and babies should not be around markers and glue and yarn.
Submitted By: mom
House
Make a play house out of cardboard or get a tent as a house. You can get paper and make
pretend food out of it. Assign jobs to each of the children and they'll have lots of fun.
Submitted By: C.D
Have fun with goop
hi! you can keep your kids occupied by playing with
goop! yeah!!!grab a bowl for each of your kids....fill it with corn starch
about half a cup depending on how big the bowl is.....mix in 1/3 cup of
water in and presto fun goop! u can choose to make the good thick or
thin.....u may also decide to add food coloring for fun....
Other questions = if u have trouble mixing the right proportions try
and do it again this time use less water......thanks
Submitted By: Laurie
Make a tent
don't have a tent. no problem, make one. take about 4 chairs and
put a blanket on top. Leave room between the chairs for all the kids and
you to sit in.
Submitted By: N/A
Butter Noodles
Ingredients:
One pack of uncooked noodles
3 tablespoons of butter
Directions:
Put on a pot of water to boil.(put salt in water)
Once the water boils put in the noodles.
Once the noodles are tender enough drain them and put in the butter.
Mix it and your done.
By: Courtney
Nature Bracelets
You need: paper, dried beans, leaves, flowers, glue, scissors and tape( try to get thick white paper)
Cut paper to fit wrist.
Glue on wanted decorations.
Wrap around wrist and tape together.
By: Courtney
Paper Jewelry
You need: white paper stripes, markers or crayons, and clear tape
Design rings, necklace, and/or bracelets with crayons or markers.
Cover each side with clear tape.
Tape to fit where ever it goes.( neck, finger, Etc.)
By: Courtney
Snake
You need: paper plate, scissors, and markers or crayons
Cut plate into a spiral.
Color with markers or crayons
By: Courtney
Bat Puppet
Supplies:
Construction paper
Pencil
Safety scissors
Crayons or makers
Glue
Popsicle stick
Instructions
Fold a sheet of construction paper in half.
Using a pencil, trace the outline of your hand on one half of the paper. Be sure to position your wrist along the fold while tracing.
With the help of a grown-up, cut along the outline of your hand. Unfold the paper to show your bat with 2 wings.
Using crayons or markers, draw a face on your bat and decorate the bat’s wings.
Glue a popsicle stick to the middle of the bat and flap the wings!
By: Brooklynn
Scavenger Hunt
Materials:
few old magazines, a list of things to find in each magazine, paper, safety scissors, and glue.
Have the children look for the things on the lists, cut them out, then glue them on to the paper. (only good for children old enough to use scissors)
By: Anonymous
Scavenger Hunt
Materials:
Get 1 pinecone and glue a fluffy craft ball to it. glue googley eyes to it. cut an orange triangle out of construction paper and a red "coma" out of construction paper. glue the triangle/beak under the google eyes and then glue the gobble/coma over it! wrap pipe cleaners around the end of the pinecone for feathers!!! :)
By: Catherine
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