Fun for the kids

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tenderhearted

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It's summer and the kids are out of school. It's too hot to be out everyday. Can anyone suggest some fun home activities? We already play board games and cards. The kids do plenty of reading and I assign school work, so they're ahead. If you have any craft ideas, cooking recipes, or anything else, please do share. :)
 
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Well, since Im an artist I will naturally suggest something along those lines!
Hm, lets see. Id make sure kids are learning but having fun at same time.

How old are the children and how many?
 
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tenderhearted

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Well, since Im an artist I will naturally suggest something along those lines!
Hm, lets see. Id make sure kids are learning but having fun at same time.

How old are the children and how many?
We have a 13 year old daughter, who is very talented in art. She uses pastels and charcoal. She draws landscapes and animals. Although, her favorite thing is cartooning. We also have an 8 year old daughter. Our infant keeps mommy busy. :) I'd like us girls to work on something together. I'm not too crafty, but I'm sure if you guys have ideas my daughter could lead the project. :) Thanks
 
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We have a 13 year old daughter, who is very talented in art. She uses pastels and charcoal. She draws landscapes and animals. Although, her favorite thing is cartooning. We also have an 8 year old daughter. Our infant keeps mommy busy. :) I'd like us girls to work on something together. I'm not too crafty, but I'm sure if you guys have ideas my daughter could lead the project. :) Thanks
Your girls are old enough to learn to sew!! Or embroidery! They have cheapo sewing machines for younguns and embroidery everything at craft stores. Maybe the girls could learn to sew their own denim purses? Or something simple? How about tshirt painting?

If it were me Id choose simple but something where it takes awhile ...Maybe they could hem fabrics for costumes and put on a bible story skit for mommy? My imagination is running wild!


With the skit they could make props out of cardboard boxes. They would learn a bible story in depth and have a blast doing it all! This would take alot of time!! lol Sound like a plan?
 
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atwhatcost

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It's summer and the kids are out of school. It's too hot to be out everyday. Can anyone suggest some fun home activities? We already play board games and cards. The kids do plenty of reading and I assign school work, so they're ahead. If you have any craft ideas, cooking recipes, or anything else, please do share. :)
My grandmother tried to keep all nine - 11 interested in the same thing, we had hard clay contest. Who cold make the coolest thing our of clay. We also took crochet seriously, and swimming. We had to find tadpoles. snakes and turtle. And every need a fort, right?
 
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My brother and I played this game and often it took all day.
Its a treasure hunt with a twist.
First you write a clue that you hand each other.
The clue is written in code
A B C D E F H G I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Its an easy code just use the the way the alphabet is written - A is N and N is A.....F is S and S is F etc
So YBBX VA YRHHRE OBK - is look in the letter box

so you go to the letter box and find another message
which might say - its under a rock near the oak tree

so you run there and get the next one - and next one.....we used to do this all day and the clues got harder and harder and sometimes a bit cryptic. We would donate a prize like....OK If you win I'll do your chores tonight. I live in a semi rural area and our clues would take us all over our area not just around our house.
 
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Another one we did my dad called "Walk the Plank"
So u have a long plank wide enough to walk on. sit the plank on a brick on each end so its off the ground but only by a little bit. You get armed with a cushion and walk along the plank. Your mortal enemy (probably your brother) walks towards you from the other end of the plank and a pillow fight in the middle occurs. Fall off the plank n u lose. NO PUSHING...Pillow strikes only. Clean head shots deserve a round of applause. Making your opponent fall off coz he swung at his beautiful sister and missed and over-balanced off the plank is considered very stylish and immediately worthy of being called Queen of the plank - no appeals to your mum is to be tolerated.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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^Excellent

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How about a good old fashioned waterfight?
water guns.... water balloons.... buckets....
 
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NewWine

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Oooh on a rainy day/week you could do a science experiment making rock candy......it's actually an advanced project, but it's fun and tasty. over a low heat on the stove, you, mom, dissolve sugar into water without boiling it, until no more sugar will dissolve (this is called super saturating). This will take about 30 minutes or so.

While the sugar is dissolving or before to prepare things, wrap a piece of string around a pencil and tie a weight to the end....anything can act as a weight as long as it won't dissolve itself and it holds a piece of sting dangling from a pencil to the bottom of a clear glass cup. We used washers.

Lay the pencil across the top of the glass, and pour the sugar water into the glass filling it 1/2-3/4 full.
leave the glass alone for a couple days, but monitor it a few times per day. After a day or so you will see crystals forming on the string. After a few more days the crystals will become larger and larger until the entire length of string that is submerged will be covered with rock candy.

Oooh or plant a garden :) letting the kids pick which plants to grow. Kids are more proned to eat the veggies they grow over veggies from a can, so this can be doubly learning for them. They will not only learn how food comes to be, but how much better something tastes when we grow it ourselves, even if it's just the pride in growing it yourself that tastes good. You can use the parable of the wheat while growing to teach how things need the right conditions to grow, just like God provides us with everything we need to grow.

for a craft idea, you could make stained glass pictures from coffee filters.
Take a coffee filter and spread it out on a table covered with newspaper or plastic. using an eye dropper put drops of food coloring or food coloring mixed with water for more pastel colors, onto the paper filter. The filter is absorbent so the drops will spread making a cool tie-dyed look on the filter.
After you make the tie-dyed or stained glass coffee filters, you can let your imagination go wild. We took pipe cleaners and made border shapes, then cut the filters out in the desired shapes and glued the pipe cleaners around the edge of the filter shapes, then hung them from the ceiling and near windows to catch the light. We had dragon flies, butterflies, snowflakes and all sorts of great creations hanging from our living room ceiling before the day was over.
 
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NewWine

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If it's a super hot day, too hot to really get out and play, create a winter wonderland inside. Cut snowflakes out of paper and hang them at different heights on walls, windows and from the ceilings. Cover the furniture with sheets, white are best, but any sheets will suffice, as mounds of snow, and build an igloo out of old boxes in the middle of a room. Inside the igloo drink hot cocoa or cool chocolate milk, spiced cider or whatever cold weather traditional drink you already have from coffee cups, and watch some cold setting family movie, or play winter type games.
 
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KJB

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My boys and I have been wanting to put a couple drops of paint and mix it with water in ice cube holders. Once they are frozen go outside and on a canvas or old sheet make art with the melting cubes of ice. Pretty fun idea.

Another is having a bucket of water and a sponge. We make a chalkboard circles with a small circle near you and the circles get farther away but bigger you have through the sponge inside a circle and score points. In the process they get wet.
 

mochi

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Ideas for craft??

1. Make satin ribbon (flower, leaves, etc etc) ^_^ you can search on youtube for video tutorial.. only need satin ribbon, hot glue/any other glue, scissor, sometimes need fire or needle (depend on what you'll create)

2. Buy melt and pour soap base (or make your own base) :D the base is very easy and safe to use, just melt+add colorant and fragrance (optional) and pour into mold AND in few hours you can create a lot of things.. you can sell it too as soaps souvenir etc.. :D

3. Decoupage :D only need motif paper and glue and object you want to decoupage.. hmmm.. its hard for me to describe :( but its VERY fun to do
A Beginner's Guide To Découpage, The Prettiest Papercraft
How to Decoupage Anything | DoItYourself.com

etc etc