Surely this is a question that will have haunted your head more than once. The truth is that there are days when we run out of ideas, especially now that they are so short and it is so cold, and we lock ourselves at home with our children where the hours pass very slowly.
Children, especially if they are still young, require our constant attention, they may be distracted playing alone for a while but most likely every few minutes, come back to you to ask you to be for him, and with all the reason world. So we will give you some ideas to hang out with your children in a fun way for everyone.
Until the children have reached a certain age, they need us constantly, it is a matter of survival. So to be happy, the ideal is that you do things together, as long as our work allows us, but surely there is someone at home to whom you can give four guidelines to help your child get distracted.
Ideas for activities to do with children
The ideas that I am going to give you are all to do inside the house, so that these short and cold days can distract you late after afternoon without having to go out to play in the park.Advertising1. Paint with fingers
Painting with your hands or fingers can be a fun experience for children. The vast majority of children love experimenting with their hands and touching everything they find, especially if it looks soft and its colors are striking.Cover precious carpets and upholstery with old sheets, put on an apron and ... get to work! to paint with the fingers. There are specific paintings to paint with your hands, usually they are in the stationery or toy stores.
2. Sensory games
I give you some ideas that we have published of stimulating and sensory games that will make your child develop his ingenuity:3. Surprise games
You can make a box like this with several of these activities that we propose to do with children. If one day you do not know what to do, you take out the piece of paper and do what you have touched.4. Cooking with children
One of the activities I always recommend is cooking with children. Here are some recipe ideas to make with them:- Chocolate mousse to make with children (without sugar and without cream).
- Dora the Explorer pancakes
- Cake for cooking with children
- Nocilla poles
- Cookies to make with childrenf
5. Plasticine with children
You can make the clay yourself or buy it. In a moment of trouble, you can do it yourself at home (also hold about 3 months in the fridge).6. Paint in the bathtub
The other day I explained how to paint to play in the bathtub. Surely it is something that your children have almost never experienced: getting dirty at bath time.7. Crafts to do with children
Virtually everything I've been mentioning would be a craft, although none of it has an end result that you can keep as a work of art. Well, you can always leave the bathtub bogged down but I doubt you let it stay that way for a long time ... Here you have some crafts to do with children on the days you are locked at home:Cardboard constructions
There are endless things and games that can be done with a simple cardboard box. Some ideas could be:I hope that with all these ideas to play with children help you endure the long winter evenings with your children. Above all, you must remember that you should not assume that, just because you are talking about a game, your child has to feel like participating. It is possible that in the middle of the game or in the middle of the craft, the child realizes anything that distracts him and decides not to want to continue doing the activity he was in.
So to arm yourself with patience and enjoy watching how our children enjoy.
