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The worst part about those rainy or snowy days is that the children are constantly victimized to boredom. However, with little imagination and creativity you can make their indoor stays interesting and fun for them. Let them choose out of a handful of activities like:
• Animal Jumble: This is a perfect activity for households where there are a bunch of children to be tackled. Just assign each child a secret animal part and have them draw their parts on white paper, without letting each child know what the other is drawing. When finished, have them cut their parts and tape the animal together. It is fun to watch them come up with an animal which might actually never exist, chose a name for this animal.
• Cookie cutter glitter: All you need is a construction paper, glue, glitter, stickers and cookie cutters. Ask your kids to trace around the cookie cutter shapes, spread glue over them and decorate with stickers and glitters.
• Paper bag puppets: This is the simplest of activities and merely requires a paper lunch bag and crayons or markers. Simply draw on a face and your puppet is ready. If you wish to have more elaborated feel, decorate with yarn for hair, buttons for eyes and glitter for cheeks. Also draw eyelashes and lips.
• Collages: Save old magazines and catalogs especially for these days and have the children cut out pictures and paste them onto a piece of cardboard or construction paper irrespective of any particular pattern.
• Shadowboxes: Paint the inside of a shoebox with any dark color. If you want you can also stick black construction paper on the inside of the box. Now ask the children to create a nighttime scene with stars and the moon or they may also make use of small plastic toys or pictures cut out of coloring books.
• Straw Glider: The straw glider is easy to make and it can easily fly indoors just like any other plane. Just tape together three straws and draw and cut wings and two tail sections on craft foam food trays and decorate with markers. Insert the foam pieces between the straws, hold the glider and throw it in the air to watch it fly.
• Keepsake ornaments: For this all you need to do is to draw a holiday design using geometric shapes like, a triangle tree, a circle wreath and a diamond holly leaf. Use a combination of shapes to make Santa Claus. If you paint, let it dry. Sign your work along with the date. Thread a piece of ribbon through the hole at the top of the wooden plaque, tie it into a knot and hang your ornament.
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