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scrapperjade

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I am so excited! A friend of mine with 3 kids is going back to work and I'm going to be her day care for her munchkins. They are very well behaved, so I'm really looking forward to having them... but at the same time worried they will be bored out of their minds. I will probably only have them 1-2x per week, when her parents can't watch them.

I'm looking for fun ideas to do with them. So far I have these ideas:

~ go to the park (they are so excited about this - they live on an acreage and never get to the park).
~ bake on rainy days
~ occasionally a movie
~ plant a small garden (I have a small flower bed that I'm going to split into 3)
~ crafts

Any suggestions for craft ideas? The kids are 9, 7 (the 2 boys), and the little girl is 3. Help, lol!!!
 
Homemade playdough?

With my son's daycare, they have almost all 2 year olds and they do a lot of art that is glueing, stickers, easy things.
 
I used to be the Craft Editor at www.kidsdomain.com/craft before Kaboose.com bought them out (and laid off all the American employees)...there are hundreds of inexpensive crafts to do with the children.

If you have a GPS...might be fun to do geocaching with the kids this summer...
 
my 3y.o. DD loves anything to do with glueing - we glue nature stuff like leaves, kitchen objects like plastic bottle lids, pasta shapes, anything really

she also likes 'beading' and threading stuff - penne pasta necklaces; buttons with large holes; we have big chunky wooden and plastic beads as well. she has never been the type to put stuff like this in her mouth so we havent worried too much about choking risk but i guess that should be considered especially with other ppl's kids

she also likes 'sorting' - i empty a big bag of buttons and she sorts them by colour or shape, or number of holes - she often sorts the clothes pegs while we're outside hanging washing

cant help with boys and older kids really, sorry
 
Geochaching is out. We don't have GPS, I don't have my driver's license, and I can't fit 4 kids (2 w/ carseats) in my car anyways. Plus we live in a tiny prairie town thats in the middle of nowhere. I highly doubt there's any geocaching spots within the surrounding 400 miles of me, let alone my neighborhood (which is 95% seniors). Sighhhhhhh.
 
I thought of another idea, if you have a yard (even a small one...just so they aren't roaming near the road) my kids love to have scavenger hunts!!! When they were small I would take pictures of the stuff instead of writing the clues. Then when they started to read I wrote the clues and now that my girls are older (11 and 7) they like the pictures again but I do it "sneak-ily" and only take a small snippit of a picture and of a wierd "part" or angle of the object. They love trying to figure out what it is. Then of course there is always hidden treasure at the end (snacks/treats or dollar tree items).
 
mummytothree said:
I thought of another idea, if you have a yard (even a small one...just so they aren't roaming near the road) my kids love to have scavenger hunts!!! When they were small I would take pictures of the stuff instead of writing the clues. Then when they started to read I wrote the clues and now that my girls are older (11 and 7) they like the pictures again but I do it "sneak-ily" and only take a small snippit of a picture and of a wierd "part" or angle of the object. They love trying to figure out what it is. Then of course there is always hidden treasure at the end (snacks/treats or dollar tree items).
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Oh that sounds fun! I have a large yard, and I'm definately planning on letting them play a lot out there. Their mom says that they practically LIVE outside, she can hardly get them in during the day!
 
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