Holiday fun with your young child
Wietske Boon
We all look forward to the holidays, but how do we keep those little ones busy?
It should not cost you a lot of money to have fun. You can use things from your house and garden to create new toys and games.
- Paint. Mix half a cup of flour with half a cup of salt. Add half a cup of water. Divide and put into different sandwich bags. Add a few drops of food colouring and blend.
- Play dough. Mix 1 cup of flour, half a cup of salt, 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar, 1 spoon of cooking oil and 1 cup of boiling water. Divide the dough and add a few drops of food colouring.
- Make a house from an old box – cut in a door and a few windows.
- Take an empty apple box and make a car from it. Pop popcorn and have a movie at the “drive-in.”
- Use old boxes, pipes, etc. to make an obstacle course for toy cars.
- Build a robot from empty boxes and paint it.
- Make masks from paper plates.
- Make binoculars from empty toilet rolls and decorate them.
- Put unprinted newspaper on the wall for drawing and painting activities.
- Make a necklace from beads or macaroni. Let them paint the beads or macaroni.
- Play hide-and-seek.
- Enjoy outside water play. Provide buckets and spoons and cups.
- Make an obstacle course outside using tables, chairs, boxes, hoola-hoops, etc.
- Build a farm in the garden using e.g. sticks, stones and leaves.
- Read stories together.
- Create your own storybook by cutting and pasting pictures from old magazines.
- Bake gingerbread men and let the children decorate it.
- Make a tent using linen and blankets.
- Play ‘shop.’ Make pretend money and sell and buy household items.
- Play games such as ‘I spy with my little eye...’ or ‘Simon says...’
Let your imagination go and enjoy the holiday.
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” Fred Rogers
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