Today seems to be a stormy, nasty day in Middle Tennessee. Don’t let a rainy day dampen spirits in your household! Here are 10 fun things to do inside at home with your little kids when wet weather looms:
Under the Sea Treasure Hunt
Run a bubble bath with lots of bubbles and fill the tub with a variety of objects for your child to find buried beneath the foam. Your little one can be in or outside of the tub while exploring.
Stuffed Animal Petting Zoo
Bring out a variety of your child’s stuffed animals and arrange them around the room. Let your child go one by one telling you each animal’s name, then have fun sharing easy-to-understand facts with your child about each critter’s real-life counterpart.
Create an Obstacle Course
Break out the blankets, sheets and pillows to create obstacles to jump on and crawl through. Make blanket tunnels and arrange chairs to crawl under. If you have more than one young child, turn it into a competition and time each child to see who can get through the course fastest.
Window Drawing
Have a supply of washable markers at the ready and let your child get creative by drawing scenes on a picture window. A sunshine scene is great to combat a dreary day outside.
Create a Book
Keep an assortment of blank books and encourage your child to illustrate his own story with crayons or colored pencils. You can fill in the words to accompany the pictures as your child dictates his tale to you.
Make an Indoor Bowling Alley
Save up toilet paper rolls and arrange them at one end of the hall like bowling pins. “Ball up” a few socks and let your child throw them at the “pins.”
Living Room Ice Skating
Wrap sheets of wax paper around your little one’s feet (keep them attached with rubber bands), put on some music and let her have fun gliding across the carpet!
Make Sock Puppets
Rummage through your drawers for orphan socks and use yarn and buttons to create colorful creations — you do the sewing, but let your child pick the eyes and color of yarn for other features. Then, have fun putting together a wacky sock puppet show together! Discover seven DIY sock puppets.
Musical Glasses
Fill glasses with different amounts of water and let your child lightly tap them with a spoon to discover the different sounds each glass makes. Try simple, familiar tunes like “Mary Had a Little Lamb” or encourage your child to make up his own melody.
Bake!
What better way to beat the blues of a cold, rainy day than to heat up the kitchen with a favorite cookie recipe! Let your child help mix the cookie dough ingredients and help drop batter from a spoon. Don’t forget the hot chocolate and perhaps a kid-friendly movie to watch together after the sweet treats are out of the oven. Discover the best family movies on Netflix right now.
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