6 Ideas to Try Right Now
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#1·20–30 min
Grocery Store
🛒Materials: Empty food boxes, play money or paper coins
- 1Set up food boxes and tins on a shelf.
- 2Make price tags with paper.
- 3One person is cashier, one is customer — swap roles.
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#2·20+ min
Vet Clinic
🛒Materials: Stuffed animals, bandages, box as 'clinic'
- 1Set up a 'clinic' on the floor.
- 2Each stuffed animal has a different problem.
- 3Child is the vet — examine, diagnose, treat!
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#3·5–10 min
Tape Maze
🛒Materials: Painter's tape
- 1Lay tape on the floor in a maze pattern.
- 2Walk only on the tape lines.
- 3Add challenges like jumping at certain points.
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#4·10 min
Balloon Keep-Up
🛒Materials: 1 balloon
- 1Blow up a balloon.
- 2Rule: it cannot touch the floor.
- 3Count how many hits before it drops.
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#5·10 min
Freeze Dance
🛒Materials: Phone/speaker
- 1Play music and dance freely.
- 2When music stops, everyone freezes.
- 3Last to freeze is out!
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#6·10–15 min
Sorting Game
🛒Materials: Mixed small household objects
- 1Mix together small objects (buttons, coins, blocks).
- 2Sort by colour, then size, then shape.
- 3Discuss why each goes where.
