Hi, guy., Welcome back to my channel. Today I want us to share with you 10 rainy day activities
that you can play with your kids at home, and all of them are super easy and free as
well. It's obviously winter here in the UK, so it rains a lot and it's also really cold.
But all of these activities are just great if you are stuck in the house waiting for
a parcel to arrive or if you just want to have a lazy day at home with the kids but
also have loads of fun. All of these are tried and tested and so much fun. I hope you really
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you as a viewer. Without further ado, let's get into my activities.
The first activity is really educational, but also fun. My two older sons love playing
this. They're six and nine, and they learn so much when we do this. All you have to do
is get a piece of paper and then mark out six columns on that paper. Then, in the columns
we write that they have to find a boy's name, a girl's name, a country, a town, a fruit,
and an animal all beginning with a letter that I choose from the alphabet. It could
literally be any letter. Then they have to really think about, say if I chose G, they'd
have to think about two names that start with that, like George and then Grace. Then they'd
have to think about a fruit, so it might be grape, and an animal might be giraffe.
Country and town are normally the most tricky, but you could choose anything, like any subject,
in the columns if you wanted to change up. But I really like having the country and town
because they don't naturally know it all the time. Even if we have to look on a globe or
ask Google, they're still learning so much. They're learning all these new countries and
towns. Yeah, town, Fraser's quite good at because he thinks of all the football teams,
but Caleb, we do normally have to ask our Google Home. But it's great, because he's
learning and it keeps them busy. Yeah, it's a really fun one.
The next activity you can play with children from a really young age. My boys started playing
this at about two years old, and it's really fun. It's called the What's Missing game.
Basically what we do is get a tray and then choose about five household objects to put
on that tray. It could be toys, it could be kitchen utensils, it could be anything around
your home. But about five is quite a good number, especially if they're very young.
Then ask them to look at all the objects, show them what you've got on the tray, and
then cover all the objects with a tea towel. Then say to them to close their eyes and then
when you take the tea towel away, you'll also take one of the objects with it and then they
have to guess what is missing.
This is a great memory game and it's also really fun. I would steer away from choosing
food, because when I played this with Jackson yesterday, he started eating the banana that
I had put on the tray. But yeah, it's a really good one and it helps their memory.
What's missing? What's gone?
That thing.
What was there?
What was it?
What was there?
The penguin.
Yeah.
The next activity is to get your kids to follow along with YouTube drawing tutorials. There
are so many great art channels on YouTube and your kids can learn to draw absolutely
anything, step-by-step with guidance. This is such a good one if your children love art.
It's also a good one if you yourself need to get some stuff done around the house. I'll
often be cooking or making dinner or cleaning and the kids can follow along with a YouTube
drawing tutorial. They learn so much and they're always so proud of their creations, so I would
totally recommend this one.
If you're stuck in the house and you actually want your children to get some exercise and
be a bit more active, there are also some amazing YouTube channels where they can learn
how to do different dances and workouts as well, specifically for kids. One of the channels
that we've been loving is called GoNoodle. You can literally learn how to do any dance,
the Floss, dabbing, all kinds of different ones. We also love little HIIT routines specifically
for kids. It's easier for them, it's got their bodies in mind, but it gets them moving and
working out and it's also really fun.
The next activity is to make a fortune teller. I used to do this as a child and it's become
my middle son Caleb's favorite thing to do. All you have to do is get a square piece of
paper or cut a rectangular piece of paper into a square, then fold all of the corners
into the middle, flip it over and fold all the corners in again. That is pretty much
it, then you've made your fortune teller. What we do is we'll write colors on the outside
of it. We'll write blue, red, green and pink, or whatever we have. Then on the inside we'll
write one to eight in numbers. Then inside the flaps you can write the fortunes.
When you play this, I mean, some of you might even remember this from when you were a child,
but you choose a color and then they have to spell out the color, so they're learning
when they're doing that. Then they also have to choose numbers, so then they're counting
when they're doing that. Then they get a fortune, and all the fortunes that we choose are really
nice. They're like, you're my best friend, you're super smart, you'll be a footballer,
or things that I know that my kids will really love. Caleb loves to make these and also take
them to school and try them on his friends. They're just so easy. Yeah, it's great for.
quality time and then doing it to family members as well.
Next up is an activity that I've shared in family vlogs before, but it's called the Three
Marker Challenge. This is also a trend on YouTube. It's so simple, but genius, because
the kids get really excited to do this. Basically you each get a coloring book, you and your
child or maybe the siblings together. Then they have to close their eyes and choose just
three markers, so they don't know what colors they're going to get, and then they have,
well, we do 10 minutes to color in as much of that picture in the coloring book as they
can. Then at the end of it, I'll judge it or maybe Matt will judge it. We'll just choose
a winner of the challenge.
Yeah, it's interesting because you only have the three colors to play with, but the kids
love it. Because there's also a time limit, they try to beat the clock and color in as
quickly as they can. Then they love when we choose a winner, obviously we try to make
it as even as possible. If it's me against Caleb, he's always going to win. But it's
really, really fun. Yeah, definitely give it a go, because sometimes they don't just
want to sit there and color, but as soon as you call it a challenge, they're really interested.
The next one is to try your hand at origami and make little origami frogs and then race
them. I found a simple tutorial, on YouTube again, of how to make these little frogs and
they actually jump when you push down the back of them. I'll normally fold up the frogs
or my oldest son will, then the little ones really like to color in the frogs, and then
we can race them across the table. It's really, really cute. It's something a little bit different
and, yeah, fun. I'll link that little tutorial in the description down below.
The next one, if you're stuck indoors, is to bake a cake or decorate cookies. I feel
like I've said this activity a few times before in various vlogs, but my sons love helping
me in the kitchen. Depending on what you have in, you can decide if you have enough ingredients
to make a cake or to make some cookies or something like that. But if you don't actually
have enough ingredients in, what we love to do is to get little digestive biscuits and
then just cover them in Nutella and the kids can decorate them with little stars or sprinkles.
I have lots of these little baking things in, just left over from other things that
I've done, so we could just easily pull them out of the cupboard. Obviously, you'll want
to make this activity something you do after lunch or after dinner, but yeah, they really
enjoy it. It's a little bit creative as well and a nice little treat for them.
Another word game that's really simple is to get your kids to write A to Z on a piece
of paper and then go around the house trying to find objects that you have just in your
home that start with that letter. Obviously, children have to be a little bit older but
it keeps them busy, and again, it's educational.
The last idea is to play the Cereal Box game. Some of you might know this one. I know that
I used to play this at uni after nights out, but basically all you need is a cereal box.
You put it on the floor and then you and your children have to go around and take turns
of trying to pick up that cereal box with only your mouth. Then, after every round you
then rip off about an inch of the cereal box, and it gets harder and harder until it's literally
like a piece of cardboard on the floor and only the most flexible can pick it up. Yeah,
and then there's a winner, and yeah, it's really fun.
Right, so that's it for this video. I really hope you enjoyed it and it's given you guys
some ideas of games that you can play with your kids. I would love for you to put in
the comments below any recommendations or things that you do when you're stuck in on
a rainy day or when the kids are bored. But yeah, thank you so much for watching and I'll
see you in my next one. Bye, guys.