Top 4 Activities for Rainy Days...

For those rainy days when you just need...something... to do, I have composed a list of my top five favourite activities;

1. Sensory Bags

Children of all ages absolutely love these, you can make them any colour, any texture and put anything in them.

Ingredients:

STRONG sandwich bags

Duct Tape or Parcel Tape

Hand gel (can use hair gel but is smelly and sticky) 

Colouring 

Glitter etc for filling 

Method: 

Firstly squeeze your desired gel into the sandwich bag, add colouring and glitter. 

Seal the top

Fold over top and seal with tape. 

Let your child squeeze the gel and glitter around, it will eventually even out. 

These are so great you can make them with anything:

Spaghetti Sensory Bags

Glow in the Dark Sensory Bags (for this use glow in the dark paint or the insides of glow sticks)

SAFTEY: If a bag splits, dispose of it and make a new one. You can tape all the edges just to be extra safe, but especially if using glow sticks as this can be toxic. Always supervise play)

2. Masking Tape Roads

It really is that simple, all you need is masking tape and cars!

Just tape out your roads, you can even make Lego houses, shops and car washes! 

3. Homemade Flubber

Again like all my activities, this is really easy to make!

It has such a wonderful texture that is different from play-dough or sand, children love playing with this and its so quick to make. 

Ingredients: 

3/4 of a cup of cold water

1 cup of PVA glue

food colouring

1/2 hot water

1 teaspoon of Borax (Sodium Borate can find in laundry aisle) 

Method: 

In a bowl mix the food colouring, glue and cold water. Set this bowl aside.

In a new bowl mix the Borax and hot water until dissolved. 

Slowly mix the glue mixture into the Borax and water. 

Tip out excess water. 

4. Spy Game

Now this one involves string and LOTS of it, so it is one that absolutely must be supervised and maybe saved for slightly older children. 

Place lots of lengths of string across a hall or a room to make this obstacle course (use masking tape as it doesn't leave a mark on walls etc), give your children stopwatches or a stop clock and they will be amused for hours. You can even dress up as spies or plant treasure at one end, the possibilities are endless. 

So those are my personal top five, please comment and let me know if you use them and how you get on!