Sunday, December 22, 2013

boredom kickers

Boredom has already struck. Yesterday at approximately 9:00 a.m. We heard the "I'm boooooooorrrrrred!" Christmas vacation had been in effect for less than a day. The 45 ideas I came up with held no interest for my daughter. *sigh* This is going to be a very long two weeks.

So here's my list of boredom kickers:
-Build a fort - the enjoyment they get out of it is worth having sheets up in the family room.
-Build a puzzle together - this was my favorite as a kid. We set up a card table dedicated to this puzzle that would take a half of a week to finish.
-Make homemade play-doh. There's something neat about playing with smooth, warm dough, no matter how old you are!
-bake together (because there are not enough sweet things in your house right now!)
-paint - there are all kinds of inexpensive little wood items that you can buy at Michaels to paint. I cover my kitchen table with a plastic cover and they go at it. Or we just pull out paper and paint on that!
-marble track - we go through our cardboard recyclables and pull out paper towel rolls, boxes, TP rolls and tape them together to make a marble track.
-build an obstacle course - couch cushions, pillows, chairs, the ottoman - let the kids figure out how to put them together for crawling and climbing.
-have the kids put on a play/skit, complete with costumes.
-dance party - sometimes just putting some music on brightens the mood in the house. My kids like to let loose and be silly!
-pull out random craft items (yarn, popsicle sticks, pom pom balls, scraps of material, paper) and commission them to make gifts for each other and wrap them. 

Well, that's a start!  Hopefully we don't make it through all of these in one day...

KC

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