Summers are here and with them comes the school vacations, which means confused, bored, irritated kids at home who are house arrest in the noon times.
Here are few no-preparation activities to keep them busy and occupied.
- Frozen Toys: Simply freeze any toy like mine loves dinosaur, so I usually freeze miniature dinosaurs in a bowl and he loves to break it with plastic hammer or in the bath tub or melt in a bucket of water.
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2. Paper Plate Crafts are a great hit with my toddler.
The best part there is no limit to creativity and a great change than normal drawing book or paper. Paper plates can be cut in different shapes like fish, dinosaurs or handprint them or draw any painting or stick glitters, stars or anything..
Some more ideas of handprint/footprint craft.
3. Cardboard Craft:
We all have those extra shoe boxes. Time to put them to use.
Car Parking space is made with a shoe box by opening its one side. My toddler recently learned the concept of parking and ticket from parking meter, so was a good time to enhance practical learning.
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This elephant is quick 15 minute craft. Older Kids who can cut with scissors can easily try this. Use cereal or biscuit boxes for this, easy to cut and give shoes.
Fire Engine/ Fire Truck from any kind of cardboard box.
4. Popsicle Stick Craft:
Super easy, fun and quick craft with lot of room for creativity, imagination and motor skills. Here I have made an airplane with colorful sticks.
5. Tracing & Matching Shapes:
We all have different shape blocks or toys. Great to learn tracing the shapes of blocks or matching the drawn shapes.
6. Water Activities:
Water play is always winner with kids specially during summers.
Super idea to learn few concepts:
- Sinking and floating
- Aquatic and land animals
- Painting the bath tub – just spill some water colors in the tub and let them paint by hands and then they can wash the tub and themselves too.
7. Free Play: Structure or guided play is important for skill development, and so is Free Play to improve reasoning, cause and effect, imagination and test the learned or observed concepts.
These blocks have holes and are to be threaded with the threads provided or can be stacked of made in any shapes.
This is Stegosaurus, his favorite Dinosaur, created by my 3 year old. Don’t miss the spikes on it’s back and green tail. Love the imagination!!
Few more Dinosaurs activities.
8. Dinosaurs Jumping:
Kids love jumping and love it more when their dinosaurs jump too. It is also no-preparation activity. simply stick a ruler to a box and let the Dinos jump.
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For jumping, I keep a box of water as a swimming pool dive, or prepare Cloud Dough and store. Recipe of Cloud Dough is easy peasy and can be find here and it can be store for a week.
Some more fun Dinosaur activities for Dino lovers. Dinosaurs can be replaced as well.
9. Clay – Doh:
Caly doh are always life savior. The best part they can create just ANYTHING and something new each time, and it never becomes monotonous or boring and is always a new learning. Some more ideas of Clay Doh craft.
10. Art and Craft anytime, anywhere, anything. Some more art ideas.
Also this bubble wrap painting. turned out to be quite fun.
Hope you find this post useful. Do share your thoughts and views in comment section below.
HAPPY SUMMERS!!
Great ideas, thanks for sharing ,will definitely try them out
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Wow! This is totally up my alley. Will try some activities with my little one.
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Hope you both will have fun. Thanks for reading.
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Art attack! Thank you for sharing this great ideas to explore with my little learner 😀
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So happy to know that. Enjoy
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This post is just what I needed during the Summer holidays. All the activities are so simple and interesting, I am sure kids will have lots of fun doing them.
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These activties really are very handy. We have ourselves created some easy to do no prep activities for the ongoing vacations
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These are all great ideas. My favourite is the ice one and I am sure kids are going to love it.
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These are such wonderful, fun activities for the summer. My little is only 3 months, but I’m definitely putting these in my back pocket for next summer!
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wow such wonderful ideas summer vacation is all about keeping them busy and these are some no prep means less effort for moms ideas.going to try few soon.
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Thank you
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Such wonderful ideas for craft sessions this summer holidays!!! Loved the bubble wrapper painting idea, would use it to make cards for the upcoming fathers day…. thanks
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Glad to know you got idea for father’s day card.
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Frozen toys, playdoh, ice sticks are favourite activities for summer holidays too. Love how kids run their imagination.
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Agree on the imagination part. Thanks for reading.
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Great activity ideas. My kids would love the water play the most in summers! They anyway love creating mess
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So true. Kids just love water.
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you have shared some fantastic ideas! I was just looking for some ideas that will keep both my kids engaged,
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So happy to know that.
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Marking your post 🙂 This is going to be really helpful for moms with their kids at home for summer vacations 🙂
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Thank you. Enjoy summers.
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Those were some really creative ideas especially for us busy moms!
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Glad to know that
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Awesome ideas! Bookmarking this post..!its going to come handy next 30 days for me !
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Thank you. Happy Summers.
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Wow these are amazing activities.we have tried few of them already. Bookmarked the page will try them
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Glad to know that. Thank you
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Loved this post! Specially the frozen toys. Heading to mom’s tomorrow for summer break will defiantly try these with my little one
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So happy to know that.
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We love the frozen toy stuff and water play will be a hit always.
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Always.. kids just love water.
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Thanks a lot for the useful article. Popsicle sticks, water play and play with shapes are always hit with us.
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Glad you found it useful.
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I always loved painting in the bathtub as a kid! I remember begging my mom to mix paint into our body wash haha Thanks for these great activities!
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Wow so much fun
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Great ideas especially both the dinasour ones… Thanks for sharing I am definitely going to try this at home.
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Glad to know that
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