Day 217 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do your kids love making magic concoctions? Have fun with these potions and give them weird and wonderful names. Best played outside to avoid the mess in your house, add leaves and grass clippings, water and sand, or anything that your kids can...

Day 216 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Sorting colours and objects is a fun activity for kids – and even better when they can eat the healthy fruit they are sorting. Have a bowl of pieces of fruit and snacks and ask your children to sort them out into the...

Day 215 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Stacking rocks and balance stones is a fun activity for kids of all ages – parents enjoy it too. Make piles of rocks into stone ‘sculptures’ by balancing them on top of each other. Choose flat rocks for easy balancing, and other shapes...

Day 214 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Are you kids fussy eaters? Make this fun shape using a large cookie cutter. Fussy eaters might not notice that this dinosaur tastes like a fish and potatoes pie! Alternatively make a chicken or vegetable pie. Anything can be disguised in a shape!...

Day 213 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: this is such an easy doll’s house idea. Make a doll’s house with just four wooden boxes. Secure the boxes together or make them interchangeable, to go side by side for a more horizontal play platform. Add a wallpaper roof on the wall...

Day 212 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do your kids like puppet shows? Children readily absorb themselves in imaginary play, building a variety of houses, hangars and hideouts using every blanket, cushion and box available. Reinvent the space in a doorway with this hanging puppet theatre. Puppets theatres are rare...

Day 211 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do you worry about your kids sticking posters up on their walls? Wash tape is pretty user friendly and comes off easily so why not encourage a bit of wall art with wash tape? Older kids will love writing slogans and younger kids...

Day 210 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do your children like fantasy dress up play? If you do not have any fancy outfits or they have worn the ones they have too often, get creative and pin a tail onto a T-shirt. You can use fluffy fabric to make a...

Day 209 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Have you ever peeled a piece of fruit in a creative way? Naartjies are easiest to peel and make princesses and kings out of. Or try to peel the fruit in one go, without breaking the peel. Use a knife to make more...

Day 208 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do your kids have their own pin boards? A blank painting canvas can become a pin board in no time. Cover it with colored paper and ribbons, drawing pins and bulldog clips to hang all your kids personal party invites, school memos, photos...