There are options for children of any age.
Some ways will help to distract the child and win several free hours, others are suitable for joint leisure and bring a lot of pleasure not only to children, but also to parents.
1. Arrange the struggle of Sumo
Put a large T -shirt on your child and put soft pillows under it.
In this form, children can arrange a Sumo struggle – to face a run and measure strength, without risking something to damage. The wider the fighters in the girth, the safer the duel will be.
2. Try checkers with sweets
Use the finished game for the game or make it yourself. To do this, stick the strips with a colored sticky tape on a square base to get a field.
Instead of checkers, use two -tone cookies, meringues or marshmallows. Any other sweets that are placed in the cage of the game field and do not get their hands and clothes are suitable.
During the game, enemy checkers will be eaten in the literal and figurative sense.
3. Arrange a drawing session without stains
Take a hermetic bag with a zip of the size of a sheet A4. Mix a small amount of shower gel with dye.
Pour the resulting mixture into the package, close it and fix it on the table using tape. Invite the child to draw with your fingers improvised canvas – the tinted gel will move inside, creating abstract patterns.
4. Try to paint sandwiches
Hard: Gabrielle Kastner / YouTube
For this home entertainment you will need toasted bread, milk and food dyes.
Pour a small amount of milk in individual containers and paint in different colors. Give the child a clean brush and suggest turning bread into a work of art.
When the picture is ready, briefly send pieces to Toster, bake the drawing and enjoy beautiful food.
5. Arrange speed games
Almost any item in the house can be turned into game equipment to do something for speed within one minute. Here are a few ideas:
- Collect sweets or marshmallow for eating sticks.
- Build the highest tower of coins or plastic glasses.
- Throw as many socks as possible into the underwear.
- Do not let the balloon fall to the floor.
6. Color Fig
Shot: Miami Skye / YouTube
You will need rice, white vinegar, food dyes and pure dense plastic bags.
Dilute the pigments in a small amount of vinegar. Put a handful of rice in a bag, pour the paint there, tie polyethylene tightly and mix the cereal to painfully paint it.
Children will like the process itself when you can twist and squeeze a bag, and the result. Painted rice must be dried, and then it can be used for pictures, applications and all kinds of crafts.
7. Make a car wash with your own hands
A toy car wash can be made from a 5 -liter plastic canister, sponges for washing dishes and moisture -resistant sticking tape.
From the container, cut the washing body with the entrance and exit. Cut the sponges for washing dishes into thin long sticks and glue them vertically to the ceiling ceiling.
Permanent markers paint the structure. In empty jogurt jars, place shaving foam foam. Take old toothbrushes and toy machines. And then just turn on the imagination.
8. Make a slime
With your own hands. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Preparation of mass will take no more than 10 minutes. You will need 100 ml of PVA glue, dye and 1-2 teaspoons. The latter is also known as “Bura” (you can buy in a pharmacy).
Pour glue into a bowl, add a few drops of dye and mix. Then drop a little drill and continue to stir. As thickened, add more sodium bourgeois – a few drops at a time.
. In a few minutes, the slime will become plastic and will no longer pester the surfaces.
Just do not play with the mass on the bedspread with villi: it clogs in them and does not clean it out well. And if you use a food pigment, a slime can slightly paint your hands.
9. Build a doll house from the boxes
You will need some time for this task, but then the children will play with such a house on their own, and not one day.
For the manufacture of the structure
11. Make a plane from a cocktail pipe
A plane from a tube and paper stripes. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
This is a non -standard airplane that will fly much further than the usual. For manufacture you will need three pieces of paper and a plastic tube for a cocktail.
Cut three strips 2.5 × 12.5 cm in size. Combine two and closed into a large ring using tape. Make a small ring from the third strip.
Attach the parts to the ends of the tube, placing it inside them. Start the model with a small ring forward.
12. Make a cocktail boiler boilers
Pile. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Take six to eight plastic tubes, cut them and glue them together with tape. Of course, you can not wait for a pleasant sound, but the children like it.
13. Arrange the soap bubble show
Make a solution for soap bubbles: mix 3.5 liters of water, a glass of dishwasher and a tablespoon of glycerol. For blowing you can use purchased devices or make options more interesting from improvised means.
For example, if you fasten several large tubes together, whole rainbow clusters will be blown.
You can also make a device for giant soap bubbles. Skip a long lace through two tubes and tie its ends with a knot.
After that, it remains to fix the wooden skewers for which you will hold on, and you can test.
14. Show the child how to make soap clouds
Soap clouds. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Cut the bottom in a plastic bottle and pull the toe on it. In a separate container, mix the dishes with a small amount of water.
Foam blowing design. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Dip the toe in a soap solution and blow in the neck. You will get a large foam snake.
15. Make a shark or crocodile from a linen clothespin
Draw a shark or crocodile with large teeth on paper, cut the image in half and glue two parts to a linen trunk. Children will be able to arrange the battles of toothy predators that open the mouth.
16. Play “Chapaeva” with plastic lids
For this fun, you will need a cardboard box with a glossy surface and 8–12 covers from plastic bottles.
Divide the “checkers” between the two players and arrange them along the edges of the box at an equal distance from each other. You can colorize if you want. In turn, blow on the lids, trying to knock them off enemy chips and at the same time not to fly out of the field.
You can also add small cars about 2 cm long. Put mini -toys in the middle of the field and blow on them to bring down the enemy chips.
The winner is the one who is the first to get rid of all the opponent covers, but at the same time will have at least one of his on the field. Otherwise, a draw is declared.
17. Make an unusual slingshot
An alternative to ordinary slingshots. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
For this device you will need a plastic bottle and ball. You can use anything like cartridges, starting from coffee stakes and mountain ash berries and ending with soft bullets from toy pistols.
Cut the neck of the bottle. Tie the ponytail of the balloon with a knot. Cut the wide part and pull half with a tail on the neck. For strength, fix with a plastic ring from a bottle.
Put a bullet in the neck and pull the ball of the ball. You can arrange shooting championships.
18. Show children how to make stickers with your own hands
Give the children a sheet of self -adhesive paper and offer to draw small pictures. When they are ready, cut the images and use it as stickers.
19. Arrange the races on the nudlam
Shot: Toys “R” us / youtube
If you have an aquapalka (nudl), but you are not going to swim, make a toy out of it.
Cut the product into halves along the entire length. You will get two paths along which you can run glass or iron balls, toy cars.
Put the sticks with one end on the elevation, the other on the box where the items will fall. Make the track with the flags “Start” and “Finish” and arrange the races.
20. Play aimed shooting with glass balls
Take a shoe box and make a few semicircular cuts with different radius – a garage with a gate will come out. Determine how many points a child will receive for getting into each hole.
Garage design. Illustration: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Put the box up the bottom with the bottom and try to roll the ball into the narrowest gate. The one who has more hits will win.
21. Make bracelets from Eskimo sticks
Frame: Newman Diy / YouTube
You will need water, a glass, wide wooden sticks from Eskimo and multi -colored paper tape or colored paper.
Put sticks in boiling water for 30 minutes so that they become soft. Then bent them in turn and insert them into the glass. Dry the sticks in this position that the tree takes the shape of the dishes.
Frame: Newman Diy / YouTube
After that, decorate the bracelet to your liking. Use applications from colored paper or decorative adhesive tape, felt -tip pens, paints, pieces of lace – all that is enough fantasy.
22. Show the children how to weave bracelets from colored laces
If the child already knows how to weave braids and knit interesting nodes, buy several meters of colored laces. From them you can make a lot of simple bracelets.
23. Conduct a scientific experiment with a balloon
Air balloons experiment. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Show the child a chemical experiment in the kitchen. To do this, pour a spoonful of soda into a balloon, and pour vinegar into an empty plastic bottle.
Put the ball on the neck of the bottle and fix it tightly. Gradually pour soda from it into a bottle. The neutralization reaction will lead to the release of a large amount of carbon dioxide, which will inflate a balloon.
24. Make a frozen dinosaur egg
Frame: TheDadalab / YouTube
If the child loves dinosaurs, show him how the ancient lizards hatched from eggs. Put the figure in a balloon and pour it with water, then send the ball to the freezer. When the water freezes, call young paleontologists.
Remove the rubber “shell” from the eggs, consider the dinosaur in the thickness of the ice. You can get a toy with a small hammer.
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6. Color Fig
Shot: Miami Skye / YouTube
You will need rice, white vinegar, food dyes and pure dense plastic bags.
Dilute the pigments in a small amount of vinegar. Put a handful of rice in a bag, pour the paint there, tie polyethylene tightly and mix the cereal to painfully paint it.
Children will like the process itself when you can twist and squeeze a bag, and the result. Painted rice must be dried, and then it can be used for pictures, applications and all kinds of crafts.
7. Make a car wash with your own hands
A toy car wash can be made from a 5 -liter plastic canister, sponges for washing dishes and moisture -resistant sticking tape.
From the container, cut the washing body with the entrance and exit. Cut the sponges for washing dishes into thin long sticks and glue them vertically to the ceiling ceiling.
Permanent markers paint the structure. In empty jogurt jars, place shaving foam foam. Take old toothbrushes and toy machines. And then just turn on the imagination.
8. Make a slime
With your own hands. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Preparation of mass will take no more than 10 minutes. You will need 100 ml of PVA glue, dye and 1-2 teaspoons. The latter is also known as “Bura” (you can buy in a pharmacy).
Pour glue into a bowl, add a few drops of dye and mix. Then drop a little drill and continue to stir. As thickened, add more sodium bourgeois – a few drops at a time.
. In a few minutes, the slime will become plastic and will no longer pester the surfaces.
Just do not play with the mass on the bedspread with villi: it clogs in them and does not clean it out well. And if you use a food pigment, a slime can slightly paint your hands.
9. Build a doll house from the boxes
You will need some time for this task, but then the children will play with such a house on their own, and not one day.
For the manufacture of the structure
11. Make a plane from a cocktail pipe
A plane from a tube and paper stripes. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
This is a non -standard airplane that will fly much further than the usual. For manufacture you will need three pieces of paper and a plastic tube for a cocktail.
Cut three strips 2.5 × 12.5 cm in size. Combine two and closed into a large ring using tape. Make a small ring from the third strip.
Attach the parts to the ends of the tube, placing it inside them. Start the model with a small ring forward.
12. Make a cocktail boiler boilers
Pile. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Take six to eight plastic tubes, cut them and glue them together with tape. Of course, you can not wait for a pleasant sound, but the children like it.
13. Arrange the soap bubble show
Make a solution for soap bubbles: mix 3.5 liters of water, a glass of dishwasher and a tablespoon of glycerol. For blowing you can use purchased devices or make options more interesting from improvised means.
For example, if you fasten several large tubes together, whole rainbow clusters will be blown.
You can also make a device for giant soap bubbles. Skip a long lace through two tubes and tie its ends with a knot.
After that, it remains to fix the wooden skewers for which you will hold on, and you can test.
14. Show the child how to make soap clouds
Soap clouds. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Cut the bottom in a plastic bottle and pull the toe on it. In a separate container, mix the dishes with a small amount of water.
Foam blowing design. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Dip the toe in a soap solution and blow in the neck. You will get a large foam snake.
15. Make a shark or crocodile from a linen clothespin
Draw a shark or crocodile with large teeth on paper, cut the image in half and glue two parts to a linen trunk. Children will be able to arrange the battles of toothy predators that open the mouth.
16. Play “Chapaeva” with plastic lids
For this fun, you will need a cardboard box with a glossy surface and 8–12 covers from plastic bottles.
Divide the “checkers” between the two players and arrange them along the edges of the box at an equal distance from each other. You can colorize if you want. In turn, blow on the lids, trying to knock them off enemy chips and at the same time not to fly out of the field.
You can also add small cars about 2 cm long. Put mini -toys in the middle of the field and blow on them to bring down the enemy chips.
The winner is the one who is the first to get rid of all the opponent covers, but at the same time will have at least one of his on the field. Otherwise, a draw is declared.
17. Make an unusual slingshot
An alternative to ordinary slingshots. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
For this device you will need a plastic bottle and ball. You can use anything like cartridges, starting from coffee stakes and mountain ash berries and ending with soft bullets from toy pistols.
Cut the neck of the bottle. Tie the ponytail of the balloon with a knot. Cut the wide part and pull half with a tail on the neck. For strength, fix with a plastic ring from a bottle.
Put a bullet in the neck and pull the ball of the ball. You can arrange shooting championships.
18. Show children how to make stickers with your own hands
Give the children a sheet of self -adhesive paper and offer to draw small pictures. When they are ready, cut the images and use it as stickers.
19. Arrange the races on the nudlam
Shot: Toys “R” us / youtube
If you have an aquapalka (nudl), but you are not going to swim, make a toy out of it.
Cut the product into halves along the entire length. You will get two paths along which you can run glass or iron balls, toy cars.
Put the sticks with one end on the elevation, the other on the box where the items will fall. Make the track with the flags “Start” and “Finish” and arrange the races.
20. Play aimed shooting with glass balls
Take a shoe box and make a few semicircular cuts with different radius – a garage with a gate will come out. Determine how many points a child will receive for getting into each hole.
Garage design. Illustration: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Put the box up the bottom with the bottom and try to roll the ball into the narrowest gate. The one who has more hits will win.
21. Make bracelets from Eskimo sticks
Frame: Newman Diy / YouTube
You will need water, a glass, wide wooden sticks from Eskimo and multi -colored paper tape or colored paper.
Put sticks in boiling water for 30 minutes so that they become soft. Then bent them in turn and insert them into the glass. Dry the sticks in this position that the tree takes the shape of the dishes.
Frame: Newman Diy / YouTube
After that, decorate the bracelet to your liking. Use applications from colored paper or decorative adhesive tape, felt -tip pens, paints, pieces of lace – all that is enough fantasy.
22. Show the children how to weave bracelets from colored laces
If the child already knows how to weave braids and knit interesting nodes, buy several meters of colored laces. From them you can make a lot of simple bracelets.
23. Conduct a scientific experiment with a balloon
Air balloons experiment. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
Show the child a chemical experiment in the kitchen. To do this, pour a spoonful of soda into a balloon, and pour vinegar into an empty plastic bottle.
Put the ball on the neck of the bottle and fix it tightly. Gradually pour soda from it into a bottle. The neutralization reaction will lead to the release of a large amount of carbon dioxide, which will inflate a balloon.
24. Make a frozen dinosaur egg
Frame: TheDadalab / YouTube
If the child loves dinosaurs, show him how the ancient lizards hatched from eggs. Put the figure in a balloon and pour it with water, then send the ball to the freezer. When the water freezes, call young paleontologists.
Remove the rubber “shell” from the eggs, consider the dinosaur in the thickness of the ice. You can get a toy with a small hammer.
25. Prepare ice cream from bananas
Take bananas (better a little asphyxial), remove the peel and cut into thin pieces. Put in the freezer.
After a couple of hours, take the fruit and mix in a blender until the mass begins to resemble a thick sour cream. Dessert can be eaten at once or put it into molds and freeze again. Older children will cope with cooking themselves.
26. Color ginger cookies
Colored cookies. Photo: Iya Zorina / Lifehaker
For this culinary fun, you will need ginger cookies. You can buy it or bake it yourself. We also need glaze from egg protein and powdered sugar, food dyes and confectionery bags.
If you cook cookies yourself, give it to cool properly before coloring. Mix the icing, tint it with different colors and fill out confectionery bags. You can also use confectionery sprinkling.
27. Make a home cable car
Pull several ropes between the handles of the door, the legs of chairs, linen hooks – it will be a cable car.
Take a hanger with clothespins and attach soft toys to it. Hook the hook by the stretched ropes and show the child how to launch the “wagons” of the cable car.