6 Ideas to Try Right Now
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#1·10 min
Freeze Dance
🛒Materials: Phone/speaker
- 1Play music and dance.
- 2When the music stops, everyone freezes.
- 3Last one to freeze is out!
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#2·10–15 min
Balloon Keep-Up
🛒Materials: 1 balloon
- 1Blow up a balloon.
- 2The rule: it cannot touch the floor.
- 3Count how many hits before it drops.
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Works for all ages — even adults love this!
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#3·15 min
Color Matching Relay
🛒Materials: Colored toys, colored paper sheets
- 1Place sheets of colored paper at one end of the room.
- 2Scatter matching colored toys at the other end.
- 3Have your child run, grab a toy, and place it on the matching paper.
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#4·15 min
Handprint Monsters
🛒Materials: Paint, paper, googly eyes (or draw them)
- 1Paint your child's hand and press onto paper.
- 2Let it dry — the handprint is the monster's body.
- 3Add googly eyes, teeth, spots with a marker.
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Make a whole family of handprint monsters — great gift idea.
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#5·10–15 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!
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#6·10–15 min
Cardboard Tube Binoculars
🛒Materials: 2 toilet paper rolls, tape, string
- 1Tape two toilet paper rolls side-by-side.
- 2Add a string to hang them around the neck.
- 3Go on a safari around the house to spot wild toys!
