6 Ideas to Try Right Now
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#1·10 min
Laundry Basket Race
🛒Materials: Laundry basket, soft floor
- 1Child sits inside the laundry basket.
- 2Parent pulls them across the floor — or they scoot themselves.
- 3Set up a 'race track' with turns and a finish line.
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#2·15 min
Fridge Magnet Stories
🛒Materials: Magnetic letters or word magnets, fridge
- 1Use fridge magnets to spell out silly sentences.
- 2Each person adds one word to make the sentence longer and sillier.
- 3Read the final sentence out loud — guaranteed laughs.
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#3·5–10 min
Blanket Burrito Roll
🛒Materials: A blanket
- 1Lay a blanket flat on the floor.
- 2Child lies at one end and rolls themselves up into a 'burrito'.
- 3Add 'toppings': pillow as cheese, stuffed animal as salsa.
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Deep pressure from the blanket is genuinely calming — great before bedtime.
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#4·30 min
DIY Maze Game
🛒Materials: Cardboard box lid, straws, glue, marble
- 1Glue plastic straws inside a box lid to create paths.
- 2Leave openings to form a maze.
- 3Place a marble at the start and tilt the lid to navigate it to the end.
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#5·20 min
Kitchen Chemistry: Slime
🛒Materials: PVA glue, baking soda, contact lens solution
- 1Pour a full bottle of PVA glue into a bowl.
- 2Mix in 1 tsp baking soda.
- 3Add contact lens solution 1 tbsp at a time, kneading until it comes together.
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#6·30–45 min
Shadow Puppet Theater
🛒Materials: Cereal box, tissue paper, flashlight, skewers
- 1Cut a large window in a cereal box and tape tissue paper over it.
- 2Cut puppet shapes from cardboard and tape them to skewers.
- 3Shine a flashlight behind the box to put on a show.
