6 Ideas to Try Right Now
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#1·15 min
Cloud Dough (2 ingredients)
🛒Materials: Flour, baby oil
- 1Mix 8 parts flour with 1 part baby oil.
- 2Let your child knead and shape it.
- 3Add small toys for extra play.
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It smells amazing and cleans up easily.
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#2·5–10 min
Tape Maze on the Floor
🛒Materials: Painter's tape
- 1Use tape to create a maze on the floor.
- 2Challenge your child to walk only on the tape lines.
- 3Add 'obstacles' like pillows to jump over.
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Use a timer to make it a challenge!
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#3·10–20 min
Sock Puppet Show
🛒Materials: Old socks, markers, buttons
- 1Put a sock on your hand.
- 2Draw a face with markers or glue on buttons.
- 3Put on a puppet show behind the couch.
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#4·10–15 min
Shadow Puppets
🛒Materials: A lamp (or phone torch)
- 1Darken the room and point a lamp at the wall.
- 2Use your hands to make animal shadows.
- 3Tell a story with shadow characters.
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#5·10 min
Simon Says
🛒Materials: None
- 1One person is Simon.
- 2Simon gives instructions: 'Simon says jump!'
- 3Only follow if it starts with 'Simon says' — catch everyone out!
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#6·20 min
Nature Soup
🛒Materials: Bucket, water, leaves, sticks, mud, flowers
- 1Give your child a bucket with a little water.
- 2They collect leaves, sticks, flowers, and mud from outside.
- 3Mix it all together to make 'magic soup'.
