- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
In today's video I'm going to be sharing with you
ten ways to entertain the kids on a rainy day.
It is currently the Easter break here in the UK,
and let's face it, the weather has not been great it is
raining a lot, so I thought I would share with you
10 ways to that I entertain the boys
when we are stuck indoors.
And they're all very easy, cheap ways to entertain them.
So I really hope you enjoy them.
If you do, please give this video big thumbs up and I will
know to make more like this and without further ado,
let's get into my activities.
My first way to keep the kids entertained is less of an
activity and more of something to have during the holidays.
It is called the "I'm bored" jar.
You may have seen this before. We love having this,
and the boys actually help me make it.
All you need to have to make this is a little jar,
and some bits of paper, could be colored paper,
or just plain paper, and then you could sit down,
and write on the pieces of paper activities that you would
all want to do during the holidays.
Obviously, you have to make them as achievable and easy
activities that you can do like watch a film,
walk to the park, have an ice cream, go to the cinema,
things that you could genuinely do if they pulled that
one out of the jar.
But write lots of different activities down that your
children really enjoy doing, and then just scrunch
them up and put them in the jar and then whenever someone
says, "I'm bored" they can choose something out of the jar
and that is what you can do for the day.
Another really good way to keep my boys entertained is to
buy them Cbeebies Magazine. They always really enjoyed this,
and every since Frazier could just point at the shelf,
I have been buying this. I think they really like it
because it has all of their favorite characters within it.
All of the ones that they love to see on Cbeebies,
like the Octonauts or the Alpha Blocks, they're all in here.
- Oh, I love Top Tim, I've got that.
- And they do different activities, and games,
there's even bedtime stories, and what I also love,
is that there are loads of educational things to do in it.
So they think they are having a really fun nice time,
but they are actually learning at the same time.
And they also support the early years curriculum,
so I really, really love doing the activities in this
with Caleb, and Frasier, they like practice writing their
letters, they practice their math.
- [Dad] It's perfect for you isn't it?
Yay, Puh.
- (makes various letter sounds)
- Good boy. Good boy.
- And we ready stories, and play games, they have so much
fun with it. There's coloring pages as well.
Lot's of matching games, spot the difference games,
things like that. And I feel like this is actually
really good value for money.
It is 2 pounds 75. And I can make all of the activities in
it last for a good week.
We can keep pulling it out the stickers that come with it,
there's always toys on the front as well.
So we can make it last a really long time.
And I will often use this as reward, so if the boys
are good for a day or for a week or they finish all
the stars on their star chart, I will say that we can then
walk to the shop and buy the Cbeebies magazine.
But we just love it. It is the only preschool magazine
out there that has all of their favorite characters in it.
And you can get it in any good supermarket, or news agent.
I will put some more information in the description down
below, and you can also follow them on Facebook or Twitter
if you want to find out more as well.
And it's just a good way to keep them busy and off of the
screens.
Another activity that my boys really enjoy,
is balloon tennis. So all you're going to need to play
balloon tennis is some paper plates, probably left over
from a birthday party, and also some wooden spoons or
a spatula, something like that.
Just tape that to the back of the plate and then you have
yourself two tennis rackets. Then just get yourself a
balloon and let your kids play tennis. It's that simple.
Our boys really enjoy this. I probably should invest in
like some real tennis rackets now but actually I think
it's probably more fun this way.
My next activity is DIY biscuit decorating.
And this is one I will pull out from time to time
as a treat. This is one you will definitely want to do after
they have eaten lunch or after they have eaten dinner.
But it's so simple, all you need is some Digestive
biscuits, some Nutella or icing, and also some sprinkles or
decorations to decorate the cookies.
Then, just lay it all out for your children,
get them to spread the Nutella on the Digestive biscuits,
and then decorate them. And it is that simple.
As I said, they probably will eat some while they are also
making it, so this could also be a bit of a
dessert activity. But it's really fun,
and it's so simple. And I tend to have these ingredients
in the house all the time anyway so if anyone is feeling
a bit restless or bored, after dinner, I can say
"Should we make our own biscuits?"
But there's actually no cooking involved.
I don't have to wait for an oven, or anything like that.
It's like a really, really quick and easy one.
And it's also great for play dates.
My next activity is cup tower bowling, and it is
literally as simple as it sounds.
All you have to do is get yourself some paper or plastic
cups, build them up into a tower, get a ball, and then
get your children to try to knock them down.
And then rebuild them back up again.
It is that simple, and obviously you could do it from
different lengths, you could make it more difficult for
your older children, and then let your younger children
go closer, but yeah our kids love this and it's just a
fun activity.
My next one is really cool. The next time you are at a
hardware store, or at an interior store that has paint
samples, grab some, grab as many different colors as you can
because when your children are bored there's a really cool
game you can play. Let them choose one of the paint samples
and then run around the house and try to match each of
the colors to something in your house, it could be a toy
it could be a pen, it could be food, it could be packaging,
or anything. And then also, get them to tick off the ones
when they have found a match. And once they have ticked
off everything on the sample, they get a prize.
In our case, they ended up getting a mini egg when they
have completed a whole sample like this.
I think it's really cool and makes them get creative.
And there are so many different shades in your house,
that they will probably find all of the colors.
So yeah I really like this one and I think it's really cool.
Next up, I'm gonna show you two ways to have mess free
painting. The first one is to get yourself a Ziploc bag
fill it with a few different blobs of paint, and then seal
it up and tape it to a window.
And then let your children, move the paint around inside
the bag. They obviously won't get messy, but it looks
really cool when the colors mix, and because it's on a
window there's some really nice light, it's almost like
a stained glass window.
The other way is to put some cling film or saran wrap
onto a table, and then a piece of paper on top of that,
and then cover that paper with some little blobs of paint
and then put another piece of cling film on top of that
paper, and tape the four sides around it.
And then let your children move the paint around on the
piece of paper, and it obviously won't get messy because
it is protected by the cling film and then they can again
mix the colors, have some fun, move it around, and it
looks really cool, and they, it's kind of like having
messy play, without getting messy.
My next activity is the Sticky Spider Web.
So for this one, you will need some tape,
and you'll want to put that tape across a doorway.
And then get yourself some tissue paper as well.
Make little balls out of the tissue paper, and then give
it to your children to throw at the sticky spider web
to see if they can get it to stick.
We actually do different colored paper for each child.
And they have a great time just throwing this at the sticky
spider web, and then we can easily take it back off again.
And then throw them at the spider web again.
And now that I'm showing you guys this activity,
I actually feel a bit silly that we do this,
but they do really enjoy it.
The next activity we are actually going to play now
so I thought I might as well show you.
It is called Hide the Shopkin.
It doesn't have to be a Shopkin, it can be any small toy.
But the trick is that you have to put it somewhere that is
visible, so the kids will count to ten and I'm going
to hide this but it is going to be in plain sight.
And that sounds really easy, but it's actually quite hard.
And if it does get really hard, then we do like,
hot and cold if they are close or far away.
So yeah, let's just do that now.
- (children counting)
- Getting warmer, warmer...
Getting colder, warmer, a bit colder...
Warmer...
Hot, hot, hot, hot. Yes! It's right there!
And my final one is Den Building.
And this may seem a very obvious one.
But I think it's nice to be reminded of it.
You can just take any big sheet, and some clothes pegs
or put it over a table, even like we have here,
and build a den. They can add toys to it,
or play armies, like Caleb likes to do, and shoot the
enemy, so yeah it's just a really fun one for any rainy day,
you can break this out and obviously you will have sheets
or blankets in the house and you can make it as elaborate
or plain as you want.
Great so that's it for this video,
and thank you so much for watching.
I would also love for you to comment below how you
entertain your kids on a rainy day and I'll see you
on my next one. Bye guys!