6 Ideas to Try Right Now
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#1·10–15 min
Interactive Storytelling
🛒Materials: None
- 1Start telling a story about a character.
- 2Pause at key moments and ask your child to make the decision.
- 3Continue the story based on their choices!
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#2·10–15 min
Sensory Texture Hunt
🛒Materials: None
- 1Find something soft, something hard, something smooth, and something rough in the room.
- 2Have your child touch and describe each object.
- 3Repeat with different textures.
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#3·10–15 min
Shape Hunt
🛒Materials: Paper, crayon, your home
- 1Draw a circle, square, triangle, and rectangle on a paper.
- 2Walk around the house finding objects that match each shape.
- 3Tick off each shape on the paper when found.
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#4·15–20 min
Marble Run (No Kit Needed)
🛒Materials: Cardboard tubes, tape, marble or small ball
- 1Tape cardboard tubes (toilet rolls) at angles down the wall.
- 2Drop a marble in the top and watch it travel down.
- 3Experiment with angles to make it go faster or slower.
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#5·15–20 min
Sponge Water Transfer
🛒Materials: 2 bowls, sponge, water
- 1Fill one bowl with water and leave the other empty.
- 2Give your child a large sponge.
- 3Let them soak water from one bowl and squeeze it into the other.
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#6·10–15 min
Balloon Tennis
🛒Materials: Balloon, paper plates, tape or wooden spoons
- 1Tape a paper plate to a spoon to make a racket.
- 2Blow up a balloon.
- 3Play balloon tennis inside without breaking anything!
