Raniy day activities for chidren 4+.?

Question

A it gets colder I can't take my nephew out to the park so I need some ideas for (safe) indoor activities for 4 year olds. To keep he and I or just he occupied. And I'm "NOT" plopping him in front of the tv for the next 6-8 hours either. Something like arts and crafts or games? Any ideas?

Answer 1

bake cookies- let him mix all the ingredient in the big bowl and put them on the cookie sheets. then you bake them. then eat them. he has fun- you get cookies. win-win situation.

Answer 2

You can use a lot of around the house items to do arts and crafts.  Use brown paper lunch bags to make hand puppets - buttons for eyes, or use small edible food items like pasta.  Pasta is easily painted - you can string them along to make necklaces, etc.  Use different pasta shapes as counters.

Kids love to do "graphic practice."  Give them a blank sheet of paper and crayons.  Play different types of music on the radio/cd player.  As the music speeds up or slows down, have them practice a stroke - such as a circle, a diagonal line, etc.

Invest in time and look at some websites that will have downloadable materials, such as enchantedlearning.com, firstschool.ws, starfall.com etc.  Kids LOVE practicing letters, numbers, etc.

Have fun!

Answer 3

Finger-painting and board games.

Answer 4

look into getting the nintendo wii. It is a video game system that uses motion control. When you play a tennis game, you swing it like a tennis racket, baseball, swing it like a bat. It is safe, fun, and it is good exercise.

Answer 5

Have a treasure hunt

Answer 6

Use ordinary objects to create a small play or something creative.

Answer 7

They have pop-up tents you can buy in stores.   I will link you to some places that have these.

My niece loves to make believe.

These are indoor activities you can put away & it will last for hours.

Hope you can link them.   Cut & Paste

Answer 8

Play hide and seek

Answer 9

You could still wrap up very warm, with gloves and hats and wellies and go out splashing in the puddles. Kids love it!

OR

Play doh

OR

Finger painting (cover the whole of your kitchen worktop with plastic sheeting or thick newspaper first and be ready with wet J-cloths to clean him up when he loses interest)

OR

The early stages of learning to read, if he's bright and starting to enquire about what labels say etc., and his mum doesn't mind. You can get sets of flashcards for word recognition. Start but putting just two words on the floor like stepping stones, perhaps 'look' and 'here'. Then say 'auntie jump on 'look'  'and do it yourself, then say Johnnie jump on 'look', etc etc.

There are sets of words and matching first books available;my kids loved it!

Answer 10

i believe the best ideas for you and your son to do is to play either of the following:

hide and go seek

baking cookies

leap frog

making bracelets for "grandmother"

get him the color wonder kit it is mess free and will also keep him occupied.  hopefully this helps.

Answer 11

you guys could make a sock pupet and make a play for his family

play with play dough

make paper bag masks

bake some cookies have him mix and pour the batter you do most of the baking

make potatoe stamps for cards  

do finger painting

Answer 12

Puzzles, Play-Doh, Legos, Blocks, cutting pictures out of a magazine, reading stories to him, giving him books to look at, stringing beads (or pasta) on to yarn

Answer 13

games and puzzles