With many parts of the U.S. being bombarded with blustery, cold weather, moms and caregivers need to find indoor activities for their still very active young ones. Board games are always a classic go-to for inside fun, but eventually your young child has enough and gets ... bored. Instead of plopping down in front of the television or game console, perhaps some fun, functional art.
There are plenty of websites out there providing recipes for art or instructions for fun crafts. spoonful.com and Sweethappylife.com are great sites to find very fun actives which you probably have all the ingredients for already. Pinterest also has a wide variety of fun arts and crafts to choose from.
I'm going to share two that I found children really enjoy. Both should be for children above the age of two or three so they aren't trying to eat the projects and an adult should be watching at all times. The first is great for mom and child, because it's fun for kids and makes the home smell good for mom. It comes out looking and feeling a lot like playdough. You can shape it into figures or use cookie cutters to cut out shapes. If using cookie cutters, you can use a pencil while your project is still wet to make a hole to feed string through and then you have a cinnamon scented ornament to hang on a tree or around the house.
What you will need:
Equal parts applesauce and cinnamon (1/2 cup each for
one child should be enough)
1 zip lock bag for mixing
Pour ingredients together inside the zip lock bag and squish it together
until it feels like bread dough. Take it out and begin playing. You may
need a little extra cinnamon if it is too wet or little extra applesauce if it is
too dry. When you and your child are finished with your creations, let them
dry on a plate or wax paper overnight and they will harden.
That Idea comes from a book I would recommend to all moms called The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions. There are a ton of great ideas in there. The next idea I found a few years ago and it's called moon sand and when you make it you will see why. It's very important that adults be nearby because the two ingredients are flour and baby oil. This one will make your home smell good too. Basically you get however much all purpose, white flour you want the child playing with and you mix a tiny bit of baby oil into it. You can do it in a bag like the last recipe, except this one isn't like dough. Just add enough oil to make sure there isn't a whole lot of stray flour but not enough to make a mushy mess. It will begin to clump up and look a lot like what moon sand would look like to you. Hours of fun and when your child is done, you can store it in a bag or bowl for next time.
I hope these ideas are useful to you. If anyone has any other fun recipes, lease share them!
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