Babysitting Activies for a 5 + 3 year old (All Day!!)?

Question

I am babysitting from 8:30 to approx. 5:00. The kids are both girls aged 5 and 3 years old. What are some activities I can do with them? Craft ideas? Backyard games? I don't really want to watch movies or TV all day. please keep in mind they are 5 and 3. P.S. I CANT DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

How about painting rocks

Baking cookies

Drawing with chalk on sidewalk

Making animals with pipe cleaners

Creating an art gallery - painting pictures and hanging on a clothes line or fence.

Build a fort outside = old blanket over a table = perfect for reading books.

Nature hunt in the backyard - find acorns, pinecones, bird feather, shiney rocks etc.

Cut old magazines and make "my favorite" books - pictures of cats, dogs, or whatever the girls think their favorites are.

Down load some coloring pages off the internet.

Make paper chains for 4th of July celebration.

Decorate their bikes for a fun parade.

Play school or house with stuffed animals.

   Go on the internet and check out activities and games for 3-5 year olds - theres lots of them.

good luck = that's a full day of entertaining children, and that can be exhausting.

don't forget to involve them in making their lunch = they can put their own sandwich together = then have a picnic outside - or even in the tent you build.

Answer 2

play an easy board game with em' , or make holiday cards with them like for their mom or dad or sumone!!!backyard games would be like simon sez or sumthin' like that not hide and go seek cuz i kinda playd that with my sister when i have to watch her and she didnt come out for like ... EVER!!! sooo hope i helpd , good luck!

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Answer 3

Hide and go seek, make paper airplanes, color, dress-up, old maid, go fish (pair wit three y/o, concentration, i spy (say "i spy" something blue and they have to guess what you were looking at, etc), fold shapes or cut shapes with safety scissors, sit on ground with legs open and roll ball to each other, blow bubbles, guess images in the clouds, read stories, or just sit on floor or ground with them and let them make something up.

When you get tired, put on ye ole boob tube.

Answer 4

well you can make some homade playdough with them and  do some art work  with them like have them make something for a loveone or even get  some flower seeds so they can make there own little plant and watch it grow everyday.

Answer 5

i have 7 and year old brother, I like to play candy land with him or make paper airplanes.

hope i helped some : )