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27+ Helpful Back to School Tips to Help You Stay Sane This Year

Are you ready for the back-to-school chaos? This list of over 27 awesome back to school tips and resources will help you stay sane this school year! September is kinda like the New Year for families, you get to start fresh and make some new parenting resolutions. The new school year usually brings on a …

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101 Free or Cheap Amazingly Fun Summer Activities For Kids

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Keep your kids occupied and entertained this hot season with these 101 free or cheap amazingly fun summer activities for kids! From making your own delicious ice-cream to camping in the yard, there are so many things you can do that don’t cost a lot of money! School is out. What summer activities …

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Free Printable Easter Activity Book For Hours Of Quiet Fun Time

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This free printable Easter Activity Book is loaded with fun activities your kids will love, including coloring pages and active games! Print it off and add them to your child’s Easter basket or save them for quiet activity time. Easter is one of our favorite holidays not only because it signifies that Spring has …

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Wondering what to do if you’re stuck inside under Coronavirus quarantine with your kids all day? Our huge list of indoor activities for quarantined kids and families will keep your kids — from toddlers to teens — busy and burning energy! As the new coronavirus pandemic continues to take hold of the United States, more and more families find themselves in quarantine and isolation. As working parents become working-from-home parents, and schools prepare to evacuate themselves forcefully, a considerable number of parents are wondering how they should keep their kids entertained and busy under quarantine. For children, this situation can be scary at worst and boring at best! The key for parents is having a portfolio of crafts and activities that don’t require a lot of prep and that can be done with things that can be found around the house. In this post, you'll find our favorite indoor activities for quarantine kids and families! Is your child worried about the Coronavirus? This article on How to Talk to Kids About the Coronavirus (Covid-19) might just help! The Best Indoor Activities for Quarantined Kids and Families Art Activities 1. Basic coloring and drawing Why complicate things? Basic coloring and drawing will go a long way and can keep your kids entertained for a really long time! 2. Butcher paper Unroll it, then let the kids color on the floor. Or put up on the wall if you have the room. Something about having such a big, unbroken piece of paper to work with feels different and exciting. 4. Concoct potions Mix all your old unused beauty products, old ingredients from the pantry or just regular paint together and see what happens! 5. Playdough You can’t go wrong with homemade playdough for kids of any age! This activity alone can give HOURS of entertainment for toddlers on a rainy day. 6. Hot Wheels Painting Do you have about a million hot wheels cars at home? Bring the cars into just about any activity, like painting! Drive the cars through the paint and then on the paper to make all sorts of tracks! 7. Shaving Cream Rain Cloud In A Jar STEM Experiment Just cause you're stuck at home doesn't mean your kids shouldn't keep learning. This shaving cream rain clouds activity is a fun and easy way to teach children how it rains. Kids will love the magical wow factor and YOU’LL love the easy prep! 8. Make “my favorites” collages Cut out pictures from magazines of your favorite animals, items with all your favorite colors, or favorite foods, etc and paste on posterboard or a large piece of cardboard. Can't get enough of art activities? Here are our favorite painting ideas for kids to try! Physical Activities 9. Dance party Turn on some music! Dancing is so much fun and a great way to burn energy! 10. Simulate outdoor scenes You know the movie Mannequin, with the elaborate storefronts — a camping one, an island one? Find weird ways to re-create different outdoor scenes in different parts of the house. Here’s camping, for example, with a fort in the living room and playing sounds of rain because we’re in a rainy campground. Dye the bathwater blue and say it’s the ocean. 11. Hopscotch Make a simple hopscotch “board” and your kids will think it’s just the coolest thing that it’s inside! 12. Jumping jacks Trust me, this is kind of fun. Everyone who can do them can try to do them. 13. Bathtub Just let them hang out in there! (Supervised, of course.) You can get creative in the bathtub, and the mess just stays in there. 14. Take advantage of outdoor space Use what you have — a shared backyard, a patio, a porch. Even opening the window and making up stories about what you see out there. 15. Air-mattress trampoline This might be the best stuck-indoors hack ever. Just blow up the air mattress and let the kids jump on it. They'll love it! 16. Dirty Sock Fight Take the socks right off your feet, ball them up and challenge your kids to a throwing battle. This activity is almost guaranteed to get everyone laughing.Raid your laundry hampers for extra ammunition. Make up teams to help out younger children. 17. Jump Away Make a ginormous pile of pillows, blankets, and stuffed animals, near a couch or the bottom of your stairway. Then invite your kids to jump away! 18. Recycled Hallway Bowling Bowling is a fun, large motor indoor activity for toddlers. Raid your recycling bin for bottles and cartons that can be knocked down and find a ball. Set the bottles at one end the of hall and let your toddler bowl their ball down the hall and try to knock them down! 19. Play With Balloons and out some balloons and see how long they can bat it back and forth before it hits the ground.Older kids can have more than one balloon or use one hand only. 20. Activity Station Make signs for different activities: jumping jacks, planks, crawling through tape/rope, balancing activities. >Set a timer, and have your kids move through the stations.” 21. Make an Obstacle Course Invite your kids to create an obstacle course using furniture and household items. How fast can you go through? Games 22. Stacking toys like Magna-Tiles Let your kids build things and then just smash them down. The smashing part will probably be the best part to them. 23. Unicorns I Spy Game Download this free printable unicorn I spy game that your kids will love! This printable is a perfect way for your kids to practice a variety of skills and keep them busy while you make dinner! 24. Workbooks and puzzles Workbooks and puzzles are a great way to keep your kids busy for a long time while allowing their brains to do some work at the same time! 25. Variations on Uno We started playing Uno with our preschooler, and you know what? It’s so much fun. 26. Spring Bingo Game Use our FREE Printable Spring Bingo Game to play the best printable game ever! This Spring Bingo Game is a ton of fun for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary grade school kids – perfect for families, birthday parties, garden parties, and more! 27. Lego Color Hunt You have to try this one, it is a kid-favorite and super easy to execute. Select 4 pieces of colored construction paper and then collect 10 Lego pieces that match each one (ie. 10 green Lego pieces for a green piece of paper). Now hide all of the Lego pieces in one room/area of your house and lay out the colored paper on a table or the floor nearby. Start the clock and have your kids start hunting. Food 28. Baking Baking with kids can be lots of fun and rather messy! But among all the mess, there are so many benefits that kids gain from the whole baking experience. It's a great way to practice eye-hand coordination, planning skills and doing math while you're baking! 29. Snacks in shapes Use cookie cutters to make star-shaped sandwiches or whatever. Your kids will have so much fun doing this and it's also a great way to encourage your picky eater at meal time. 30.Cereal Threading Threading is a great skill for toddlers, and using colorful cereal makes is so much more fun and interesting. You can use pipe cleaners and turn your threaded cereal into bracelets! Entertainment 31. Watch TV There will probably be a lot of screen time during quarantine, but why not use this time to watch some good old Sesame Street or Disney Plus? 32. Video Games Playing video games is so much fun! Challenge your child to some Mario Cart or let them whoop your ass in their favorite game! 34. Good, old-fashioned reading It’s so simple, but take the time to read books to your child. Maybe they'll find a new favorite book or rediscover a good old classic book that they've forgotten about. 34. Movie marathon Make homemade hot chocolate, pop some popcorn and watch a series of movies together. Other 35. Sensory Tub Is your child missing the sandbox? A sensory tub is the next best thing! Sensory tubs can be filled with just about anything and based on any theme imaginable. My kids LOVED a tub filled with dry corn with lots of scoops and trucks added in. Rice is another great filler for a tub. You can create themed tubs based on things like fall, holidays, insects, and more. 36. Make Hand Puppets Make some puppets and create a show.Alternatively challenge family members to make puppets out of household items. 37. Stacking Cups Do you have a ton of plastic cups in a box somewhere? They are perfect for building with! You can stack them into all sorts of towers or buildings- we’ve tried to recreate the Eiffel Towel and the Coliseum out of cups (learning through play at it’s best!). You can also create building challenges out of the cups. Or try to reach your ceiling. 38. Busy Bags Busy Bags are small, fun activities that are placed in bags (or bins) that can be easily pulled out for a self-contained independent activity. 39. Build a Fort Kids of ALL ages love making forts. Hey, I still enjoy making them as an adult! Build a fort out of a fan and a sheet, table chairs and blankets, or couch cushions and then let them eat a snack, dinner, watch a movie, or take a nap in the fort! 40. Create a Race-Car Track Use your painter’s tape to make a huge road system for your kids’ matchbox cars. Think outside the box and have the track scale furniture and other obstacles (just make sure it’s something you don’t mind toy vehicles being “driven” over). The key to making it active is to make it large-scale, so they are engaging their core muscles while crawling all over. 41. Write a play Work together with siblings, assign parts and have an after-dinner performance. 42. Write a story Retell a famous fairytale or write about yourself in the future. 43. Make instruments Use rubber bands, wax paper and toilet paper rolls or other objects (baking pans, tin cans, wooden spoons etc). Have you done everything on this list and are looking for more ways to keep your kids busy? Here are 20 Things to Keep Kids Entertained During Coronavirus Quarantine!

The Best Indoor Activities for Quarantined Kids and Families

Activities / By Viktoria

Wondering what to do if you’re stuck inside under Coronavirus quarantine with your kids all day? Our huge list of indoor activities for quarantined kids and families will keep your kids — from toddlers to teens — busy and burning energy! As the new coronavirus pandemic continues to take hold of the United States, …

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How to Talk to Kids About the Coronavirus (Covid-19)

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News of the coronavirus COVID-19 is everywhere, from the front page of all the papers to the playground at school. Many parents are wondering how to talk to kids about the Coronavirus and not make kids more worried than they already may be. Coronavirus (Covid-19), infections, deaths, pandemics, canceled events, empty store shelves – …

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20 Things to Keep Kids Entertained During Coronavirus Quarantine

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Are you and your kids stuck in a Coronavirus Quarantine and wondering what to do all day long? Here are 20 things to keep kids entertained during Coronavirus quarantine! The coronavirus pandemic spreads like wildfire and if the thought of being quarantined with your children 14-day sends you into a panic spiral, rest assured you’re …

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Free Printable Unicorns I Spy Game Your Kids Will Love

Activities / By Viktoria

Download this free printable unicorn I spy game that your kids will love! This printable is a perfect way for your kids to practice a variety of skills and keep them busy while you make dinner! My daughter loves unicorns (although she can’t actually spot the difference between them, but mommy loves unicorns too!) so …

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The Best Ways To Make Money As A Stay At Home Mom In 2020

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Can you really make money as a stay at home mom? Yes, you can! While there are many ways to earn money from home, here are 21 of the best ways to make extra money as a stay at home mom in 2020. Do well-paying stay at home mom jobs really exist? That was my ONE …

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How to Make a Red Sensory Bin – Step-by-Step Instructions

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Learn how to make a red sensory bin to entertain and teach your child, and to facilitate creative thinking and fine-motor development. Sensory bins are one of my most favorite ways to facilitate learning in children and let them practice their fine-motor development. Creating a sensory bin is a lot of fun and you can …

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Shaving Cream Rain Cloud in a Jar STEM Experiment

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This shaving cream rain clouds activity is a fun and easy way to teach children how it rains. Kids will love the magical wow factor and YOU’LL love the easy prep! Are you looking for a simple and easy preschool STEM activity to do with your kids this spring? This rain cloud in a …

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101 Free or Cheap Amazingly Fun Summer Activities For Kids

Free Printable Easter Activity Book For Hours Of Quiet Fun Time

The Best Indoor Activities for Quarantined Kids and Families

How to Talk to Kids About the Coronavirus (Covid-19)

20 Things to Keep Kids Entertained During Coronavirus Quarantine

Free Printable Unicorns I Spy Game Your Kids Will Love

The Best Ways To Make Money As A Stay At Home Mom In 2020

How to Make a Red Sensory Bin – Step-by-Step Instructions

Shaving Cream Rain Cloud in a Jar STEM Experiment

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