What are some things that you can do or make at home with a 7 year old?

Question

My 7 year old cousin is visiting and I need some fun things to do with her at home while she is here.

Answer 1

you can make cookies  or  cupcakes, you can get rolls of paper  and  different color paint  and  hand paint  or  get  in  the  sprinkler  and  get  wet  and  eat  lunch  under  a  shady  tree

Answer 2

Bake a cake or cookies. You can make jewelry or get some other kind of crafts.

Answer 3

you could bake or do some crafts. that would be really fun like in the morning there are some things at play house disney or pbs that could show what you could make.

Answer 4

Do you have photographs of the family at your house? If you do then you could create a collage by cutting up the pics and placing them in a large photo frame. You could also decorate the outside of the pics with coloured card. Also, you could make up stories, i.e. you write and she does the illustrations or you could bake. These are relatively cheap but fun things you can do together.

Answer 5

Baking is always fun whether you do it from scratch or use a packet mix,  painting, sewing, gardening, a visit to a local park, swimming, bowling, face painting, window shopping, i don't have much experience of children (cats yes kids no) but i know my sister has done these things with her kids and they have enjoyed it hope it helps and have a good time.

Answer 6

You can play games with her or make-up, do her hair like a hair salon and make a cake or cookies together or even go out to a near by park our even you can go see a movie with her mothers perrmision or if its hot outside go and play with the sprinklers

GOOD LUCK!!!!!

Answer 7

you should make some arts and crafts. draw pictures and color. maybe even go outside and run around.

Answer 8

paper mashaey do it out side it is  messy

materials

balloon

news paper

flower the kind in the kitchen

water

Answer 9

Get some cookie cutters, and bake cute little cookies. Or even brownies. Or just play dress up and have fun.

Answer 10

Look here are some crafts at this website

Answer 11

Coloring books

Painting

Visit Zoo

McDonalds

Visit Pet Store (only visit)

Swimming

Shopping spree @ Toy R Us?

Go see a new movie

Build a Bear?

Answer 12

Well, 7 year olds love games and they secretly like acting older than they really are so treat them older!

Answer 13

read a book ,teach her something,do arts and crafts,but have fun                                                                                                                     !!!or play dress up girls like that

Answer 14

besides cookies, cakes, ice cream and food, there are all sorts of crafts. i have made pet rocks, t-dyed shirts, socks, undees, and pants. you can play word games, watch movies, play monopoly, sorry, or other board games. you can take them to the museum, pool, playground, park.

Answer 15

Check out oriental trading, they have lots of cool cheap busy work

Or board games, cards, go to the park, its summer have fun

Answer 16

i used to babysit a 7 year old, and their greatest joy in life was making pizza with me. They get a real kick out of spreading sauce and throwing cheese on there. Just make sure you help them with every step and supervise them (i.e. when you put the pizza in the oven)

Answer 17

Baking, paper mache, pretend to be princesses (? I wasn't in to "pretending" when I was seven, but some kids still are), watch movies together too. I watch Barbie with my sister. No one said you had to pay attention. Just be there.

Make-overs!!! Little girls love make-up. Dress up is fun too. Going out for lunch or dinner. Can you say girls-night-out? And attend one of your daughter's sleep-overs. Don't be nervous if crushes come up in truth or dare though. She's growing up. Be happy.

Enjoy and embrace her childhood with her. It goes by fast.

Answer 18

make cookies togther!!!!!

Answer 19

You'll have a great time, I'm sure.  Most kids love to bake cookies or a cake - cookies would be faster since you don't have to wait long for them to bake or cool.  Even if you just use a mix, it can still be fun.  Playing with bubbles is also a bunch of fun. You can get huge bottles of bubble soap and bubble wands (or even whistles and guns) at Wal Mart or other discount store.  You can also do something "crafty" like making bracelets or hair accessories.  Kits can be found at craft stores or Wal Mart.  Another craft to do is do tie-dye shirts or other clothing.  My kids love customizing things.  We most recently did aprons - you can find white ones in the craft area and colorful ones are normally in the tablecloth/place mat section of the store. The paint is in the craft section as well.  Just check the label to see if it's OK for fabric painting.   We've personalized cups and plates - using craft glue or paint on them to draw flowers or write a name.  You can plant herbs or other plants - terrariums are easy to make, and very versatile.  You could get a camera and go on a nature walk, taking photos as you go to make a small scrapbook or select one picture for which you can decorate a frame together - kits are in the craft section, and some may also be in the photo frame section (you can decorate them with buttons, foamies, pebbles, charms... the only limit is your imagination).

There are obviously a ton of things you can do. I'll link you to some sites we visit.  I hope you both have a great visit!

Answer 20

make home made pizza dough and pizza's, make home made clay, make your own paper dolls and clothes to put on them.

Answer 21

Arts and crafts might be fun, making things out of house-hold materials. Or you can see what movies she likes, and rent them out. You can ask her what she would like to do, go somewhere, site-seeing.

I hope I helped.

Answer 22

We play games - indoor, outdoor anything - kids love to play!  Board games; water balloon toss; squirt gun tag for just a few.  For crafts we recently collected rocks of various sizes, sticks and other outdoor things and used glue to make rock bugs.  They came out pretty cute!  You could also model with play dough, color pictures, make a "wind" chime out of paper and strings with beads.  I know my daughter (7) loves to make any craft that uses tape or glue - half the time they don't look like much when complete, but she has fun taping...Good luck!  Also try -

Answer 23

go in the pool, or the beach.

make cookies.

go to the movies, wall-e.

dress up.

do anything it's summer have fun!

Answer 24

Find a junior cook book.  this is a great time to play in the kitchen, you not only get to spend quality time with your child, but it teaches math as well!!! By introducing the fractions in recipes and learning to work with measuring cups and spoons will get your child ready for math in later years of school.  They just need to be exposed to these things and many children are not.

Answer 25

you could take a bunch of pictures together and make a scrapbook out of them :)

sidewalk chalk!!!

if it's hot outside you could run through the sprinklers or swim in the pool if you have one.

bake cookies.

my little cousins like to dance so i usually put on some music (kid friendly), move some furniture and dance around the living room. they like to pretend they're putting on a concert.

rollerblading, bike rides, go for a walk....