Watering the Rocks
Here’s a fun, cheap activity for a warm summer day. The Boy has his own small watering can (I think it was from the $1 bin at Target) and loves to use it to water anything and everything around the yard. Including the rocks. Every time we change out a 2.5 gallon water container from our emergency supplies, the old one goes out in the garden area on a shelf that he can easily reach. This way he can fill his watering can again and again without one of us having to turn on the hose or leave the water running.
Little Dinosaurs
We’ve been checking out a different How Do Dinosaurs… book from the library for the past few weeks. The Boy really enjoys the rhythm and rhymes and has taken to reciting some parts. These are short picture books that teach a simple lesson. The dinosaurs learn their colors, count to ten, say good night, eat their food and go to school to name a few.
Younger kids might enjoy the counting and colors books and older kids will like to see the dinosaurs go to school and play with their friends. The silly, rhyming text is accompanied by great illustrations of dinosaurs with human parents. These are fantastic books for older kids who are into dinosaurs too.
Yarn Dolls
I often have bits of left over yarn from various crafting projects. Last week I made several yarn dolls with the scraps. This is a quick, relatively easy, very cheap way to make a toy. Older kids (I’d say ages 8 and up) could probably even make the doll themselves. For younger kids, the outcome is fun to play with. One skein of yarn can make quite a few dolls. The dolls can be used as tie-ons on a birthday gift or as party favors. You can adjust the size of the doll by using a larger piece of cardboard or a larger book around which to loop the yarn.
Stickers as Travel Activity
We’ve recently completed two short trips, one by plane and one by train. On both occasions, The Boy had his own small backpack to carry. He was able to choose a few small toys and activities to take along. This worked quite well and freed up a bit of room in our own carry-ons. The best activity we had on both trips was our little baggie of stickers (cut from old address labels) and a few sheets of blank paper. The Boy was quite well occupied pulling the stickers off their backing and ‘decorating’ the paper with them. This activity was cheap (free actually) and very light-weight.
Old Return Address Labels
Although it may be tedious work to cut the picture off old return address labels, they can be put to good use as stickers for your child. Some relatives recently moved and gave The Boy all of their old return address labels to play with. We cut the name and address portion off and now have a good-sized bag of fun stickers for him.
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