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Sidewalk chalk obstacle courses or mazes
Thinking and games: Keep your kids brains active and moving too! Play
PLAY!! Absolutely the best thing you can do with your child to build every single
skill!
Marble mazes- use Legos or an old cardboard box, craft sticks, or straws to create. Use
straws and ping pong balls to blow them through too!
Stick-tionary- create pictures using objects you find outside like sticks, pinecones, rocks,
etc
Board and card games
Puzzles
Lego stamping art- use Legos and paint to make letters, animals, cities, you name it!
Flashlight tag or I spy- turn off the lights and see what you can find or follow each other
with your flashlights (great before bed to help kids get used to the dark!)
Matching or Memory games- play waitress and have them bring you items you
"ordered" or put socks in a pile and see who can match the most the fastest
I Spy or hidden pictures- highlights has 2 weeks for free
https://hiddenpictures.highlights.com/why-hidden-pictures
Clapping and singing games
Alphabet scavenger hunt –hide letters ( you can even write them on piece of paper) and
they have to find
Put on a play, puppet show or talent show
Minute to win it games- possibilities are endless. Here's some ideas:
o https://www.scarymommy.com/minute-to-win-it-games-for-kids/
Sensory play: Sensory based play is not only a great way to learn about our world but it
builds language skills, self-regulation, mindfulness, and overall awareness of our present
surroundings. Talk about what you hear, see, taste, smell, feel etc.
Slime
o Here's my favorite fluffy slime recipe https://www.thebestideasforkids.com/fluffy-
slime-recipe/
Get outside and talk about what you hear, see, feel, smell
Outdoor scavenger hunt- find something rough, smooth, hard, soft, wet, dry, blue, etc
