*Ride Bikes - put streamers on your bikes

*Read a book (while standing on your head)

* Bake cookies

*read about science & do an experiment

*do a chore to earn extra credit

*color with crayons, pencils, markers

*make jewelry out of macaroni

*Paint a night shirt with designs, stretching it over cardboard & taping it down & let dry.

Be an entomologist - catch, cage & draw all the bugs in your back yard

* Practice Jump rope or Chinese jump rope

*Newspaper kites - http://www.clem.freeserve.co.uk/

* Look in the Games Book for ideas

*draw on paper or wipe-off board

*weave loops - make pot holders

*write a letter in code (letters in reverse order or A=M, B=N or A=@, B=*)

*Kate's weaving loom (if she says it's ok)

*play marbles or dominos

*put together a puzzle

*play Barbies

*work on traveling scrapbook

*sewing or crochet

*be a teacher to your siblings

*play Mass

*count your allowance

*take a magnifying glass to the fish tank

*perform an act of love

*get tubes or skinny boards & time which tube, angle, or car goes fastest

*Play a game of Balloon Tennis! This is a great game for toddlers. Glue a wooden paint stick to a paper plate to form the racket.

* make up your own calendar Holidays : July 13 - kiss your dogs ear day / August- be kind to your socks month...make sure they always have their match. / May 5- Eat dessert first day. / June 12, Purple and black day.

* Make Popsicles

*author & illustrate your own book - When you're done, we'll scan it, print it & bind it

*create your own city - the perfect play area for those cars, trains and play people. Use a vinyl tablecloth with felt backing to draw roads, houses, parks, schools, etc., with permanent markers. Or cut out pieces of felt in the shape of lakes, trees, animals and people.

*Talk on the Phone : Aunt Sara, Aunt Laura, Papa Joe, Grandma Jan, cousins, friends, babysitter

* Cut and play with paper dolls - design your own clothes

* Make homemade flour & water paste & cut magazines

* Tape a big sheet of paper to floor & trace around child - color in

* What game can you create with ice trays & buttons

* Make a fort

* Play beanbag toss with a bowl

* Put a sheet on the floor, put wads of paper in it, shake the sheet & watch the popcorn "POP!"

* Play-doh

* Painting with food coloring in water & Q-tip

* Chalk on dark construction paper

* Paper punch & different colors of paper

* Stencils & pencils

*Big towel on floor, shallow bowl of water & boats

* Make a tunnel out of chairs, or a train

* Cup of soapy water & a straw to blow bubbles

* Use measuring tape - record results

* Arrange blocks by size, color or shape

* Make jewelry with cherios (masking tape on end)

* Make a mural

* Have a tea party

* Use soft squishy balls to play basketball

* Learn to count in other languages

* Play catch with balls of socks (have a snowball fight)

* Walk backwards, how many steps before you crash (no looking backwards)

* Go for a listening walk. How many sounds do you hear?

* Make up menus and play restaurant

* Tell knock knock jokes

* Play pin the nose on the pumpkin

* Have a jumping contest

* Make up a dance contest

* Sing Old MacDonald & act out animals

* Play Name That Tune on the piano

* Put on a puppet show

* Put large shapes on the floor & have a bean bag toss

* Race while you balance a cotton ball on a spoon

* Who can laugh the longest?

* Hide large objects around the house & play seek & find

* Play flag tag (grab the flag at the back of your pants)

* Play dress up

* Act out a fairy tale like Nutcracker

* Have a rhyming contest

* Play Simon Says

* Learn "I Love You" in another language

* Listen to music & dance while you balance a bean bag on your head

* String cheerios and hang in the trees for the birds

* Paint the swing set using water & paint brushes

* Count to 1,000

* Make an indoor obstacle course

*Have a race with Drew's cars

* Make astronaut shoes out of shoe boxes tied to your feet

* Draw a sidewalk chalk mural

*Make tattoos with washable markers

*Chemical Balloon: Use a funnel to pour 2 tablespoons of baking soda into a clean glass soda or juice bottle. Next, pour in roughly 1/2 cup of vinegar. Stretch the neck of the balloon over the mouth of the bottle fast! Vinegar mixed with baking soda produces carbon dioxide gas, which fills the balloon.

*Make a kite -  http://www.aloha.net/~bigwind/20kidskites.html

*Muffin-Cup Flower Garden (Package of multi-colored paper muffin cups; construction paper; scissors; glue; green marker or pen) Fringe the muffin cups by cutting the edges toward the center to make petals. Spread glue on the bottom of fringed cups and press them onto a sheet of construction paper. Glue a whole muffin cup (different color) in the center of each fringed one. Then spread glue in the center of each whole cup. Glue a few small pieces of construction paper and press into the cups. Use a green pen or marker to draw the stems and leaves of your garden.

* Water colored with food coloring on coffee filter

* Put 3 objects in a bag, have boys touch and guess (no looking)

* Make a book of Tongue Twisters - Old oily Otto operates on old oily autos; Silly Sally sings songs sweetly; Roudy Rob wrestles rhinos while reading recipes.

* Lip Print Pictures (Paper; crayons; lipstick) Apply lipstick to yourself or your child, and kiss a piece of paper in the middle of the page. Have fun together drawing in the face and features around the lips.

*play keyboard (a song you know backwards)

*make cards (with your face on them?)

*Marble Painting (Clean coffee can; paper; tempera paint; 4 or 5 marbles; spoon) Fit a sheet of white paper into the coffee can (cut to fit if necessary). Place the marbles in different colors of paint. Use a spoon to place the painted marbles into the can. Replace the lid and shake the can. Pour the marbles out and remove your masterpiece!

* Sit in a circle and play Telephone

* Put on a play

* Make cup dolls using paper cups, scraps of material & "treasures"

* Make funny faces in the mirror

* Make hand shadows on the wall

* Put a sheet over a table & go camping in your tent

* Have a parade with musical instruments & hats made of newspaper

* Play "I Spy"

* Put a hula hoop on the floor & toss paper trash balls in

* Wrap your toys and have a Christmas party

* Have a bicycle/tricycle wash

* Learn a game from another country

* Do a shadow dance

* Decorate lunch bags to make puppets

* Learn your favorite song in sign language

* Go on a rock hunt

* Play store, use stickers to 'price' the pantry items

* Everyone have a backwards day with shirts

* Play pictionary

* Give your dolls a bath in a bowl of soapy water

* Plant a seed in a cup of dirt & watch it blossom

* Make pom poms from newspaper & make up cheers

* Make towers (checkers, boxes, shoes…)

* Cut the bottom off a milk jug & try and "catch" a ball someone throws to you

* Create a song with words about something special to you

* Use empty paper towel rolls as telescopes

* Put tape on the floor and do tricks on the balance beam

* Listen to patriotic music and have a band

* Watch a dance video and learn a new dance

* Have a color scavenger hunt.

* Play follow the leader, but the leader does exercises

* Clap out rhythms & have the others follow it

* Play "Same Thing Seek". Collect objects of 2's (blocks)

* Make a mummy out of your brother or dog

* Put a target on the wall. Throw bean bags at it

* Have a relay race - blowing cotton balls the farthest

* Make a block & car town on front porch

* Be airplanes and fly around outside

* Make a fort of snow bricks

* Mirror each other like an image

* Take a bubble bath

* Give pretend haircuts

* Put a leash on a stuffed animal & take them for a walk

* Put all the pillows in the house on the floor & climb the mountain

* Fill the sink with water & discover what sinks / floats

* Play dress up with your clothes on a stuffed bear

* Brush each other's teeth

* Use kitchen tongs to pick up items

* Make paper flowers & practice being a flower girl

* Decorate large paper bags to make costumes, like a policeman's jacket…

* Using foil make crowns, army of royal knights

* Squirt shaving cream in a plastic bag & mix food coloring

* Hide something & draw a treasure map

* Go on a smelling hunt in our house

*teach Maggie (the dog) to jump through a hula hoop

* Make a lacing toy for the little kids with plastic margarine lid

* Draw on mirror with wipe-off markers

*do latch-hook

* Write out a play, rehearse, make costumes, & I'll video it