60 Activities to do With Your Child

1. Craft a story together.
2. Make an obstacle course.

   

3. Bake together.
4. Fold paper, or fabric.
5. Play a rhyming game.
6. Build a house of plastic cups.
7. Play dress-up.
8. Make a path of pillows or towels to use as stepping stones.
9. Make a book.

• Play I Spy with colours.
• Play Simon Says with the whole family.
• Make a large box into a playhouse, car, train or spaceship
• Complete a connect-the-dots picture.
• Make musical instruments using kitchen utensils.
• Jump rope or hula-hoop.
• Make a cereal or pasta necklace.
• Collect twigs and leaves from a local walk - make a picture using these.
• Do a puzzle.
• Play Hide and Seek.
• Build a city out of toys / lego.
• Make a tea party.
• Play snap or pairs.
• Build a den with a blanket, some pillows and durable furniture.
• Make a sock puppet.
• Play catch with a balloon.
• Practise tumbling and rolling.

  

• Challenge your child to identify items by smell.
• Pretend to go on a safari (or a bear hunt).
• Play hopscotch.
• Build a dollhouse out of shoeboxes.
• Play charades together.
• Create a collage from old magazines.
• Pop balloons with your body.
• Sort and name coins.
• Make a car wash for riding toys.
• Plant a seed and watch it grow.
• Sort things by colours and sizes
• Create a spider web with glue-coated spaghetti.
• Make masks out of paper/card and decorate them.
• Play Follow the Leader.
• Make a volcano out of baking powder, vinegar and red food colouring.
• Use different objects (like a wire coat hanger) to make soap bubbles.
• Play "What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf?"
• Let your child "read" you a storybook by looking at the pictures.
• Play face paints
• Make hand shadows.
• Exercise with a yoga video together.
• Play a simple version of Pictionary.
• Make your own play dough - recipes available online.

  

• Keep a balloon in the air as long as possible.
• Play hide and seek with an object using 'Hot' and 'Cold'
• Cut snowflakes from folded paper and decorate them.
• Play a matching game with photos of family members.
• Call out words and challenge your child to think of rhymes for each one.
• Let your child scrub carrots or potatoes for dinner.
• Use cooking tools to play with water.
• Copy each other's rhythms on a toy drum.
• Tilt a baking sheet on a stack of books to make a slide for toy cars.
• Make salt patterns with your fingers on a table top.
• Make fruit kebabs.