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It can be difficult to keep children amused at the best of times. It gets much harder when the places you’d like to take them to are closed or you’re not allowed out. Even without a global pandemic, you can be stuck inside due to bad weather.
Fortunately, there are plenty of things you can do with your children at home. However, before you get started it’s worth talking to your child’s Croydon early learning center, they can help ensure the activities you’re doing aren’t just fun but beneficial to your child’s ongoing education.
- Hide & Seek
This is one of the oldest activities in the world but it’s still fun for children to play. The good news is that you can join them. The rules are simple, you start counting and the children hide. Then you find them!
You’ll be surprised at how good children are at finding hiding spots. It’s a great way to boost their imagination and have some fun.
- Making Table
Children love to make things, especially if they are doing it with you. All you have to do is cover your table with a cloth and then put all the making items on it. You can use glitter, glue, cardboard, stickers, and anything else you can think of.
Your children can create anything they want from the materials you’ve put on the table, and you’re on hand to help them. It improves imagination and coordination skills.
- Treasure Hunting
In a way this is a variant of hide and seek, only it’s the treasure that’s hiding! You’ll need to decide on what the treasure is and then hide it, backtracing a route to the treasure by creating clues. Your children can then be given the first clue and will need to work it out n order to find the second one, and so on.
You can supervise them without interfering and help them practice reading and even math while working out the clues!
- Play Dress Up
Children generally love dressing up. All you have to do is find a selection of clothes and get them to put different things on. You can even choose outfits for each other and race to put them on over your own clothes.
If you prefer, you can dress your children up smart for dinner and pretend you’re going to a posh restaurant. It can be surprisingly fun to act like you’re in a restaurant when you’re at home.
- Paper Airplanes
It’s easy to make paper airplanes. If you don’t know many designs then you’ll find plenty of suggestions online. You and your children create a paper airplane each and then see how far it flies. The one that goes the furthest can get a prize!
The only real limit to what you can do at home with your children is your imagination. If you let your hair down and focus on the fun, you’ll be surprised at how enjoyable the experience can be!
