I’ve noticed a lot of… well, complex activities lately. I can’t seem to find just quick, doable and just simple activities to do with the kids.
Everything that I see seems to try to outdo the last and it has escalated so high now that I don’t even want to try!
Do you ever feel like Pinterest is actually trying to stop you from being creative???
So instead, I’m going against the grain (typical me) and am trying to do really simple, easy, no-brainer activities lately. They’re often the biggest hits in our house ironically.
These may seem obvious. Or they may not. But the point is to spark us to do it our kids and to feel uplifted and good about ourselves! You can make it more complex if you like. Or maybe it will spark something else when you do it.
Here’s 15 of most simple activities yet.
- Threaded Fruit Loop Necklace
- Flour Sensory Tray
- Dumpster Diving
- Pom Pom Drop
- Craft Sticks in a Bottle
- Balance Beam
- Paint with Water
- Stacked Canned Food
- Cover a Table to Draw On
- Color Collage
- Walk on Pillows
- Hammer & Tees
- Wash Toys
- Peeling Tape
- Tape Jumping Game
Most every one of those you’ll be able to do right off the bat. I do 90% of our activities with supplies you’re likely to have on hand in your own home.
There are a few supplies that I suggest you stock up on. For this list, you’ll want to get these supplies (affiliate links are included for easy reference and to help support Hands On As We Grow), you’ll find you use them a lot for many activities!
Click here for the full list of craft supplies I recommend you stock up on.
How’s that for some simple, quick fun today?
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Which one of the simple activities will you do with your child this week?
Let me know in the comments!
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Teri says
These activities all look amazing. I love how simple they are. I am excited to try them out in the coming weeks to keep my young kids entertained. Thanks!
Olukemi Odedairo says
I really like the peel tape activity.
I would also like to suggest using large pegs for opening and closing exercise.
Good for strengthening little fingers.
Lindsay says
We had a 4 and a 5 year old (and a few infants who were occupied elsewhere) at our Child Care Center last week, as well as a large box of almost-expired Fruit Loops, so we combined snack time and craft time and made necklaces (and munched along the way, of course!). It was a perfect activity to fit in with our focus on colors and rainbows leading up to St. Patrick’s Day, and the kids were so focused and quiet, they spent almost an hour on their creations! I don’t usually like to use food for crafting, since we work with a very low/no-income population, but in this case the kids were able to create something fun with new materials, and the cereal was still completely edible when they were done. One of the girls was crunching cereal off her necklace the rest of the morning, and even cleaning up her own crumbs– it was wonderful! Thanks for the reminder that the simple crafts are often the best!
Jamie Reimer says
I love hearing stories like that Lindsay!
AliV says
These ideas are great! I’m a first time mom with very active toddler twins and sometimes feel I’m too busy just keeping up to be able to do real activities with them. These are great solutions that teach and are able to be done with accessible items hanging around almost any house. Thanks so much!
Carrie Barron says
Here’s what I did this week with my 13 month old son.
Materials: contact paper sticky side out taped down with painter’s tape to patio door window, milk jug lids and a t.p. roll stuck to contact paper
Activity: take lids off and put them back on, drop lids through t.p. roll, occupied him for about 20 minutes
Thanks for your great posts. Sometimes I do them as is, and sometimes I modify them.