Day 156 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do you draw with your kids? Make your own game with a pen and paper. Find out which elephant knows the path to the tree. This is a great way to connect one-on-one with a child and also a low-key way to encourage...

Day 155 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do you have any nuts and bolts lying around at home. These can be great items to make a picture with. You can either leave them loose, so that a new picture can be easily made, or you can use glue them to...

Day 154 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do your kids like playing with puzzles? Puzzles provide many skills and mental learning benefits and are an important educational learning tool for toddlers and young children. From cognitive to problem solving, fine motor development to hand and eye coordination, puzzles develop and...

Day 153 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Have your kids made these easy wooden airplanes before? All you need is a few pegs, some recycled sucker sticks/craft sticks and some glue. Paint them different colours and decorate the tail wings with airplane logos.

Day 152 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: When last did you make alphabet soup or alphabet pesto pasta? It is such a fun dinner idea, and kids can make words with the raw pasta while their meal is being cooked. Alphabet pasta shapes also add interest to ordinary tomato soup.

Day 151 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: This one of the easiest activities to do with your kids – all you need is paper! Have fun making paper boats with your kids. If you use craft paper, the boats will float; otherwise put them onto a tray or platter and...

Day 150 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do you have food coloring in your kitchen cupboards? Let your kids play and experience mixing colors in water. Set up two or three water basins on a table and carefully add a different food colouring to each one. Let children mix it...

Day 149 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: I am guessing you kids don’t like eating salads? But, a salad doesn’t have to come in a bowl, or even have lots of leaves! Get creative with different plates and bowls and vary the ingredients to make basic salads into something fun...

Day 148 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do your kids also want to make their own lemonade to sell at the gate? Perfect for summertime picnics, pink lemonade is easy to make, with simple alternatives for the sugar and colour. You’ll need between six and eight lemons for this recipe....

Day 147 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do your kids read enough? A great way to encourage reading … make your own bookmarks! Make these fun and easy bookmarks out of colored paper and card. Let your kids first draw their book mark characters, then cut them out of colored...