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Stay home ideas 15
Feeding snails, cardboard nail salon and sleeping bag play.
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Rapunzel re-enactment
If you have Tangled fans, here is a fabulous play idea. Get some dolls to act the story. She played for hours!!!
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Doll on a walk photography project
Walking around the houseand avoiding the parks and other people is not much fun so here is an idea. Take a small doll/action figure and ask kids to take photos with it doing stuff. My little one came with loads of ideas and loved to use my phone to snap some shots. I am sure…
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Chalk ideas
Plenty of ideas out there. Animals, shapes, flowers. The one my little ones enjoyed the most are “be a butterfly” and colour our fence. There’s scope for many hours of work on the fence one.
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Mud soups & pies Stay home ideas 13
Bowls, spoons, baking trays and any other unwanted pots plus loads of mud, leaves, flowers, stones, glitter, sprinkles and water. Let the cooking begin.
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Beauty station – stay home ideas 10
Lots of play with a make up mirror, hair clips, glasses (old frames), fascinators, scarfs and some perfume and lipstick.
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Yarn wigs
I made some yarn wigs for a Halloween party a while back. It turns out they are great for pretend play. You need yarn, a few bits of fabric preferably felt, a needle with thread or a sewing machine and some elastic band. The red wig was very easy to make just use an elastic…
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Stay home ideas 2
Today’s ideas for the kids off school and nursery. 1. Early Easter egg hunt 2. Make & paint your binoculars with two toilet rolls
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Chemistry laboratory
Here is an easy and fun STEM activity. It involves colour mixing and some basic reactions. This tray kept both of my girls occupied for around 2 hours. It was one in top favourites. I used: Food colouring A variety of chemistry falcons/viles Some syringes Scoops and droppers Some plastic tubes Sugar Sodium bicarbonate Vinegar…
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Harvest play
I go often to farms to pick fruit or pumpkins, but this activity is great for learning more about farming, harvest, plants and how the food grows. You need a box, some soil/potting mix, gardening tools and some small root veggies like: onions, radishes, turnips, beetroot, carrots, patatoes or parsnip. DIg, plant and harvest and…