Help!! I'm Baby-Sitting 6 Kids All Under The Age Of 10!!!?

Question

HEPL! I'm babysitting 6 kids, 5 boys and 1 girl, I'm 15. They are good kids but get board quickly, i need some craft and game ideas to keep them ocupied without making a huge mess. we played red light green light, and simon says they liked playing this but the younger ones had trouble understanding the rules. the tv dosn't do the trick so dont sugest it. plz i need fun activitys that wont be to messy, but keep 10 year olds to 2 year olds intertained.

thanks,

Tone-Tone

Answer 1

Here are a few crafts:

Milk Jug Bird Feeders

Rinse out an empty plastic gallon milk jug with lid. Cut a window in the front of the jug, and make two small poke holes for the perches. Insert pencils for perches and fill the bottom of the jug with bird seed.

Juice Carton Crayon Box

Wash and dry an empty cardboard juice carton and cut off the top. Using bits and pieces of masking tape, have the children tape up the entire carton, covering all sides, the more tape the better. Use crayons to color the masking tape box. The tape makes the box sturdier and will make a great crayon holder for their desk or dresser.

Aluminum Can Crafts

Paint an empty and rinsed out tuna can with spray or acrylic paint. Decorate with glitter and glue, pom poms, buttons, lace, or stickers. These make cute holders for barrettes, pony tail holders, paper clips, rubber bands, keys, jewelry, or other small items. Using the same ideas, paint a soup or vegetable can to make a pen or pencil holder.

Coffee Can Wish Bank

Have the kids cut pictures from old magazines or draw pictures of something they want. Decorate the cans with glitter, the pictures, stickers or anything else you have around. Cut a hole in the plastic top of the can for the kids to deposit money. Each time they add money to the can, they are contributing a little bit more to the "wish" item. A great way to teach kids to save money!

Coffee Can Stilts

Using two 1-pound coffee cans, turn each can upside down so that the plastic lid is on the bottom. Using a screwdriver, poke two holes, one on each side of the can. Using several strands of yarn braided or twisted together, or some rope, thread through holes in cans. Tie off inside the can. Cans can be decorated if you like.

Jar Candles

Save the stubs of candles. When you have several saved, melt them together in a double boiler. Color the wax by adding bits of crayon to the mixture. Pour the wax into glass jelly or mason jars or metal cans. Use cotton yarn for wicks, or you can purchase a roll of wick at a craft store. Decorate the outside of the candle holder with acrylic paints.

Magazine House

Using an old catalog or magazine, cut out pictures of chairs, tables, curtains, bathroom fixtures and other furnishings. Spread out a newspaper or large sheet of drawing paper. Sketch an "open sided"

house. Have children place the pictures of the furnishings in the rooms of their choice. They can cut out more pictures to redecorate their house, cut out pictures of people, toys, pets, anything they like!

Alphabet Catalog Collage

Using old toy, clothing, and plant catalogs, have the kids cut out colorful pictures that begin with a specific letter of the alphabet. Assign different letters to each child. Have them glue the pictures

onto a piece of construction paper. Discuss the pictures afterward.

Paper Towel Rain Makers

Young kids love noise makers. Color, paint, and decorate paper towel rolls. Cover one end of a paper towel roll with waxed paper and close it off with a rubber band. Pour a handful or two of dried beans (split peas work well) in the open end, close open end the same as the other. Poke toothpicks through the rolls at different intervals to add a "rain shaker" sound.

Paper Towel Tube Holders

Decorate a paper towel tube with paint, markers, glitter, stickers, construction paper and crayons. This becomes a colorful carrying tube. Roll their pictures up and put inside to take to their teacher,

grandparents, friends, or relatives. Some special pictures could be for their Grandparents, a special aunt or uncle, or even for a brother or sister.

Paper Plate Holders

Using two paper plates, cut one plate in half and place on top of the other plate (turn the half plate to form a pocket over the whole plate). Use a paper punch to make holes going around the outside

of the plate. Use scraps of yarn and "sew" through the holes of the plate. Start and end at the top of the plate so that it can be extended about six inches and tied. Have your children color, paint or

decorate their plates. Now they have their very own place to put prized possessions, notes from Mom and dad, special pictures and more.

Paper Plate Aquarium

Color an underwater scene on the "eating" side of a paper plate. Glue goldfish crackers to the scene, a couple pieces of plastic plant for seaweed, and using glue and a little sand or soft dirt, make the sea floor. Using a second paper plate, cut a circle in the middle. Cut a circle of blue plastic wrap 1 inch in diameter larger than your hole in the plate. On the "eating" side of this plate, glue the blue plastic wrap so that it covers and overlaps the hole on the plate. Glue or staple both

plates together with "eating" side toward the inside. Punch a hole in the top and string a piece of yarn through the hole to hang your aquarium from the ceiling.

Treasure Shoe Box

Decorate an old shoe box and lid with construction paper, markers, paint, glue and glitter, crayons, googly eyes, stickers, lace, doilies, or whatever else you can find. Be sure to put the child's name inside the lid. This box make a great box for treasures found out in the yard, on the way home from school, or anywhere else your children "hunt".

Shadowboxes

Pain the inside of a shoebox with black or dark blue poster or acrylic paint. Alternatively, you can glue black construction paper inside the box. Using white crayons or stickers, make a night scene with stars and the moon on the black background. Get creative, use small plastic toys to create a scene inside your shadowbox, or make your own with construction paper and glue. Cut out small pictures from coloring books and color and adhere to your scene. Hang a spaceship or shooting star with a piece of string and glue.

Cartoon Strip

make your very own cartoon adventure with crayons and a pad of paper. At the bottom of a pad, on each sheet, draw a figure (i.e., a dog). The first frame will be on the first page, second frame on

the second page, and so on. Change the movement with each page. When you are finished, fan the pages with your thumb to see the show!

Create a Story

If you have several children together, this can be great fun. Give each child two or three pieces of paper. Have them each drawer a picture and write a sentence. When finished, see if they can put it together to form a story. New pages can be created as you go along. A book cover can be made from two pieces of construction paper, a hole punch, and yarn.

Number Fun

Pick a number from one to ten. Write it on a piece of paper. Ask the children to draw sets of things in that number. If the child get number four, have them draw four apples, four trees, four dogs, and so on. Have them color their pictures with crayons and markers.

Animal Jumble

Using construction or white paper, ask each child to drawn a different body part of an animal, but to have their animal be a secret. For example, have one child draw the head, another draw the tail,

another the legs and so on. let the children pick the animal they want to draw. When they are done have then put the animal together with tape or glue. Have fun coming up with a name for the animal (monk-dog-lion-potamus).

Pet Rocks

Find smooth, flat or round rocks. Be sure to clean off any dirt or sand and dry completely before starting. Paint with acrylic paints. Decorate faces by using google eyes, yarn for hair, markers, glitter, and any other tidbits you like.

Bookmarks

Great for back to school or as a gift to someone you love. Make fun bookmarks with construction paper, markers, paints, and stickers. You can also use glitter, sequins, lace, doilies, buttons, and any other little bric-a-brac you have laying about. Cut strips from construction paper, painting the construction paper will make it sturdier, or you can visit the local library or office supply to have them laminated for longer lasting use. To complete the bookmark, attach a tassel make from strands of yarn.

  

Good Luck HAVE FUN !!! ;)

Answer 2

go outside for a while

after that, have each one of them pick a game. start with the youngest (hopefully the older ones wont get upste taht they didnt get to pick first) and play the game a few times. move to the second youngest...

try that

and good luck!

Answer 3

U may also try this web site.Hope help u:

http://kid-games-to-play.blogspot.com/

Answer 4

Get some construction paper, glue, glitter, crayons, etc. and have them make greeting cards for their parents for special occasions coming up.

Answer 5

ask them idevidualy what they would like to do. then do it.

Answer 6

twister..

play a game that requires to do something like staying quiet for a certain amount of time..or something that requires them to really think and want to do something..

Or put Barny on lol

Barny solves all the problems.

Answer 7

Is that legal? Thats way too many kids for a teen.

Answer 8

Lots of sweets.

A movie?

Urm, Guess who - the game?

if you have a playstation thats always great.

Music, musical statues?

Good luck

Answer 9

if the weather is good let go otu and run thru the sprinkler if you have one .Ive never babysitted more than 1 child at a time. sorry.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

Are you crazy or something? Hook up a playstation 2 with guitar hero or something.

Answer 12

Oh wow, good luck.

Try putting a movie on that they all would watch. Or, why don't you ask them what they want to do?

Answer 13

For the younger kids, maybe even all the kids depending on how smart they are, this may seem mean but it works. Play "hide & seek" with them, but once have all hid, don't seek. That leaves you some time to think about what to do next. Eventually they'll figure out you're not coming, but not for a while.

You could also actually play hide & seek.

Answer 14

Try duck-duck goose LOL Also, for the future, try getting some of those crayola no-mess color kits, those work wonders! It comes with markers and special paper that they can play with, and the ink from the markers will only mark on that special paper. Puzzles might work, and maybe put on some music that they can all dance to!

Answer 15

board game

musical chairs

follow the leader

hide and go seek and take a long time to look for them

sorry im out of ideas - i don't have kids

Answer 16

How can the television possibly not work? You should ask them if they want to watch movies and such. Maybe try taking them to the movies? Or if you think that's too much for you to handle, don't bother. As for games, my cousins always love to play games. Dress up games, shooting games, etc... If they don't understand how to play it, just play imaginary things with them, like they're swimming, they're scuba diving, they're exploring, etc... Supply foods, like celery with peanut butter and yummy tasting sandwiches, in colorful plates that'll increase their appetite and want to eat. Six kids sound like hard work. Good luck.

Answer 17

play games with them i have six siblings and i just play with them put on a disney movie if that dosent work

Answer 18

Well I loved kids, the best way I can suggest to you is to play for them like the game bring me which is asking them for one thing whoever got it first is the winner, I know they can cooperate with you even they are on that age and it is an exciting game...

Also try to teach them how to draw and color objects. Or try making an activity where they spot the difference. Or read for them a book which will draw their interest.

Playing with their favorite toys is also a good way of keeping them busy.

Hope that helps.

Answer 19

make up some funny games, like house and stuff. let them do something funny to you, take them to the beach. Take them to the park. play soccer or some other game that is EASY to understand

Answer 20

You need something that will make them all go to sleep for a while. Think about it: If you were 6 years old what would make you go to sleep?

Answer 21

Ritalin!!!!

Answer 22

well......since tv doesnt work...try printing out coloring stuff for the girl and maybe letting the boys build a fort out of blankets?? Try going on funroom.com for more ideas....like baking with them, try games(board games) good luck

Answer 23

freeze tag, egg on spoon race, three legged race, coloring, finger puppetts, making a play/movie (let the kids write a story and then act it out), follow the leader, doggy where's your bone, human knot (form a close circle. then everybody reaches out and holds two other people's hands. now, they must try to untangle the "knot" without letting go. they may have to climb over arms or crawl under arms)... also check out the link below

Answer 24

What about coloring?  Maybe a game of hide and seek?  Can the kids not play together with toys and keep themselves entertained?  You may need to break them up into 2-3 groups in order of age...let each group play a different game so that the older kids don't get bored playing a game aimed for the younger kids.  BTW, the 2 year-olds might not understand the concept of game rules...they may just need you to play with them while the older kids play games.

Here are a couple other games to try:

Tag

Musical chairs

Hop-scotch (for outside)

London Bridge

I agree with many of the other answers...ask the kids what they want to do!

Answer 25

Play with games,or just play a made up game thats fun

Answer 26

work on animal balloons.

theyr easy after a while and a good investment. i do it as babysitting and the kids are hypnotized.

or you can fold paper boats [simple origami] and let them play with it.

Answer 27

go outside play with chalk,hide and go seek,coloring,make belive,let them help u make lunch or dinner.....rent some kiddy videos..there yah go

Answer 28

Ahhh, that sounds like a mess!! There isn't really anything that will entertain the entire age group. I suggest taking the older kids and having them do their own project on their own. This will undo the boredom, and give them a since of responsibility. Then you can focus your energy on the younger kids. With the older kids I would make a obstacle course or a treasure hunt of some sort. The younger kids may enjoy small puzzles or just free play outside (don't 4get the sunblock!!) Good Luck girl!!

Answer 29

You should take them outside and play like tag or something like that.  Or you could take them for a walk.  You could also just put out like plan paper and some crayons and let them drw whatever they want..that might keep them busy.  Also it's not that messyy!

Hope I Helped!

Answer 30

O.K I am only 13 and I was watching 4 kids under the age of 8 and they got board fast to so we made a little club got some paint and made club shirts, thought of a club name, had club meetings, played freeze dance and all that stuff it was actually really fun! and there was this really fun game where all the kids go to a corner in the house but one who is it and when you yell go thew kids get out of there corners and run around and the kid the you picked will tag the other kids and then when they get tagged they freeze and then when theyre frozen only you can unfreeze them you can give them powers like anything you want them to be able to do like say they can unfreeze two people on ly and stuff like that and that was a really really really fun game it lasted hours and my little cousin 11 helped me babysit and these kids are really hyper and never clean you just have to make cleaning fun but yeah that tag game is awesome and the kids loved it

Answer 31

play some games with ball.

i had to babysit so i made a game with the stuff i had at hand.

i made a game called slug monster, where you put a blanket over your head and act like your a slug. the kids cant let you touch them or they die. tryto eat them and let them beat you up with pillows get creative with the rules and such, good luck!