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Mark off an area of your driveway, sidewalk or any other washable surface and let your kids go to town with Sidewalk Chalk. You can ask them to draw shapes, letters or numbers, or just let the little ones doodle. I'll draw objects or animals and then ask my son to run and jump on them, which adds a little physical activity. My son loves to finish up the chalk play by leaving daddy a welcome.. ... Read more >

Ages : 1-6 year olds

Materials Needed : Colored Sidewalk Chalk- preferably the large ones for little hands.

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Get a stack of index cards and write one letter on each card and then hide them around a room. After hiding the letters, ask your child to find as many of the index cards as possible. As they find each card tell them to say the letter out loud. As the child better learns their letters you can hide several different letters around the room but ask them to only find specific letter or letters.

Ages : 2-5 year olds

Materials Needed : Stack of index cards

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What child doesn't love hide-and-seek? Here's a fun variation to play with a group, inside or outside. While the group counts to 50, one person goes to hide (find a place that's big enough to fit the whole group). When the group is finished counting, everyone spreads out to look for the hider. When you find the hider, quietly climb into the hiding place, too. Play continues until all the.. ... Read more >

Ages : 3-6 year olds

Materials Needed : good places to hide

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Use a large cardboard box, big enough that your kid can crawl into it (stove or refrigerator boxes work great) and create your own playhouse, fort, car, truck, whatever he or she would like! Just cut windows and doors and decorate the outside of the box with markers or crayons.

Ages : 1-5 year olds

Materials Needed : Big cardboard box, scissors or box cutter, markers or crayons

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Here's a clever way to re-purpose your jump rope or even a long piece of yarn. Stretch your jump rope, or other long string, on the floor and use it as a "tightrope"; your child can walk backwards, forwards, eyes closed, etc. For an added "circus" touch, give your child a broomstick to use as a balance. You could also use the jump rope as an obstacle, having your child jump over the rope.. ... Read more >

Ages : 2-6 year olds

Materials Needed : jump rope

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Collect several empty toilet paper or paper towel rolls. Cut lots of ribbons or crepe paper to make streamers. Glue or tape them onto the rolls. Kids can use them to dance around, pretending to be gymnasts, fairies, or butterflies.

Ages : 1-6 year olds

Materials Needed : Empty toilet paper or paper towel rolls, ribbons or crepe paper

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Draw some shapes on a wall or on the ground with chalk. Write a number (the score) inside each shape. Be sure to give the smaller shapes a higher score. Have the children (depending on their age) stand at a distance from the wall or ground (you can even draw a line that they cannot go over) and have them each take a few turns and try to score as many points as possible by throwing a ball so.. ... Read more >

Ages : 2-6 year olds

Materials Needed : Ball, chalk

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Help your child with her fine motor skills with this kitchen utensil game. Find two bowls and fill them with water. Take your smaller, waterproof kitchen items and put them in one of the bowls. Give your child the kitchen tongs and show her how to hold them as well open and close them. Then ask them to grab the items in one bowl and transfer them to the other.

Ages : 2-4 year olds

Materials Needed : Two bowls; water; kitchen tongs; small, waterproof items

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This is a fun St. Patrick's Day game. Make a pot of gold out of a small decorative black pot (found at a craft store) and fill it with gold wrapped candy. Hide the pot somewhere and then send the kids on a scavenger hunt. For older ones, write clues that lead to the pot. For younger ones just send them off to search. At the end, have the "winner" share the pot of gold candies.

Ages : 2-6 year olds

Materials Needed : Small pot, gold wrapped candy, clues for scavenger hunt

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Grab your group of kids and line them up in two teams in the water on one side of the shallow end of the pool. One at a time, have them walk through the shallow water, pushing a floating plastic ball with their nose as they walk. The first team to have all members push the ball forwards and back across the pool is the winning team!

Ages : 3-6 year olds

Materials Needed : 2 plastic balls that float- the kind that would be in a ball pit.

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