Babysitting ideas to entertain 8 year old girl?

Question

Any activities, crafts, or recipies you can share? The girl is very creative, and loves art and hands on stuff.

Answer 1

Why are you babysitting if you cant even come up with something this simple?

Answer 2

my old babysitter used to come over and have beach night where we would put on bathing suits during bath time and lay on towels while watching tv or chinese night where you order chinese food (check with parents) and find chinese robes, put up hair in a bun while chopsticks.

Answer 3

Make slime:Materials (Corn Starch, Water)

Mix 1 cup of corn starch with 1 cup of water.  Use your hands to mix it until it is a smooth texture.  You can change the texture by adding a 2nd cup of corn starch.  Kids love adding food color or paint to make the slime.  They have fun making it resemble different icky substances and their imagination is more vivid then most parents want to hear described in detail!

Store in a covered container.  It will keep for several days.

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other ideas

with parent permissoin take her to the bakery if she likes to bake stuff.

Play spa

Make a real specail comfroble chair and tell her to put her bathrobe or PJ on.Then bring out a snack and drink to eat while playing spa.Put a movie or music on.Let her choose wich movie or music.The paint her nails and toe nails.

Answer 4

When my daughter turned 8 we had a slumber party and for the craft we bought a ROLL of paper (it was car painters paper) and let the girls lay on the paper and outlined them, then we used paints glue and ribbon (for the hair) and they designed their own outfits and painted them they had a blast! then we hung them out to dry on the clothes line!

Answer 5

http://www.kidsturncentral.com/topics/is...

Try this!

Answer 6

foam stickers are great! They come in these big buckets and you can make lots of things with them such as cards, photo frames, door hangers, etc... Also, beads are a great idea. Dot markers seem to keep my kids attention as well- you can find all the above mentioned items at a craft store such as Michaels Arts and Crafts. As for recipes, some kid friendly ones are available on Familyfun.com and Kraftfoods.com As far as just activities, girls that age usually love board games and playing things such as makeover- you can dress up and pretend you are going to the beauty shop! Do eachother's hair, makeup, etc...