Ideas for playdates for toddlers: 17 Playdate Ideas for Toddlers and Kids

17 Playdate Ideas for Toddlers and Kids

Kids love to play. And parents love to watch their children have fun with their friends. But sometimes putting together a safe and fun environment for them all to play can feel overwhelming. Between planning activities and snack times, coordinating with parents, and keeping the kids entertained– there’s a lot going on during a playdate. So we’re here to help. Check out our playdate ideas and resources below to help make your playdate planning easier and more organized. That way you can focus on enjoying the time spent with your kids.

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• What Is A Playdate?
• Playdate Place and Location Ideas
• What To Do On A Playdate
• Playdate Craft Ideas
• Playdates For Toddlers
• Playdate Ideas For Kids

What Is A Playdate?

A playdate is a designated time for two children to visit and play together. Parents set the time, date, and location for a playdate ahead of time. Playdates typically last for a few hours before the parent who isn’t hosting the playdate picks up their child.

The Perfect Playdate

A “perfect” playdate is one that both children enjoy and that both children and parents feel secure about the welfare and safety of everyone involved. The best way to plan for a perfect playdate is to plan ahead, stay organized, and make sure expectations and activities are communicated to everyone beforehand.

Our Tip: To help make the scheduling of your child’s playdate easier, consider using mommy calling cards. These cards come with all your contact information to help inform other parents of important details when scheduling a playdate.

Playdate Place and Location Ideas

Looking for some new playdate location ideas? If your child is tired of always being at a certain person’s house or you’re just wanting to give them a fun surprise, consider the playdate place ideas below:

• One Parent’s House
• Local Park
• Museum
• Water Park
• Local Gardens
• Bounce House Centers
• Zoo
• Aquarium
• Bowling Alley
• Roller Rink
• Mini Golf Course
• Movie Theatre
• Laser Tag

What To Do On A Playdate

Take the opportunity of a playdate to introduce exciting or new activities to your child. Whether they’re crafty, love to play with toys, listen to stories, or make a mess in the kitchen – there’s something to do for everyone. Check out some of our favorite ideas below or use them to inspire a unique idea of your own.

Playdate Craft Ideas

Specifically looking for new crafts? We have you covered. Check out our playdate craft ideas for every season below.

1. Christmas Crafts for Kids

From gingerbread cutouts to elf party hats, these holiday focused crafts are perfect for kids of all ages! Just make sure you have a crafting corner to keep all the mess contained.

2. Valentines Day Crafts for Kids

Valentine’s crafts not only make an excellent playdate idea for the springtime, but they’re also super easy to put together. Check out some of our favorite heart-shaped crafts through the link above.

3. Art Projects for Kids

Most kids love art projects (and making a big mess!). Check out some of our favorite art project ideas above, such as homemade bird feeders or leaf art, or use them to inspire a different art project all your own.

Playdates For Toddlers

A toddler playdate can sometimes mean a lot of time and energy, leaving you burnt out by the end of the day. So if you’re needing new activities to help keep the kids entertained so you’re not left scrambling, check out the playdate ideas below.

4. Personalized Story Time

Using made up stories or even better, personalized story books, craft a new adventure starring the kids. It’s sure to keep their eyes glued to story time and help facilitate a transition to a low activity time.

5. Memory Games

Memory games aren’t only a fun and challenging activity to keep your toddlers entertained– it’s educational. These games help stimulate brain activity without the little ones even realizing it.

6. Painting Party

What’s a better way to let the little ones express themselves than a painting party? Break out the child-safe paint, paint brushes, and some clean canvases. Just make sure you get to work in a well ventilated area!

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Unstructured Toy Time

Toddlers love playing with their favorite toys, and sometimes it’s best to leave them to their own imagination. Just make sure there’s plenty of toys so that no fighting over sharing begins!

8. Shadow Puppet Show

Shadow puppets are fun, cute, and perfect for a nighttime playdate or inside with access to a dark room and flashlights. Get creative and inspire the kids to make up their own shapes and creatures.

9. Dance Party

Who doesn’t love a dance party? Bust out some fun moves to family friendly music and get the kids moving.

Playdate Ideas For Kids

Once your child is a little older, they may feel silly playing with toys or shadow puppets during a playdate. If that’s the case, consider upgrading to a few new age appropriate playdate ideas and activities. We’ve included some of our favorites for you below.

10. Superhero Pretend

Few kids dislike superheros, making them one of the most time-honored play pretend activities around. And if you want to make your superhero play time extra special, invest in some personalized capes to hand out to the children.

11. Kids Card Games

From Go Fish, to War, to Speed and beyond, there’s plenty of fun, child-friendly card games to keep the kids happy for hours. And you can make your card game playdate sand out with our personalized kids playing cards.

12. Baking Party

Kids love food and science experiments. Put that together and you’re sure to win brownie points by throwing a baking party for a playdate. Whether you decide to make cookies, brownies, puppy chow, or anything else, the kids are sure to have a blast. And to help minimize the cooking mess, make sure to check out our kids aprons.

13. Movie Marathon

If the playdate is a little longer than usual or the kids are tired, you might want to throw a movie marathon. These low energy playdates are perfect for relaxing, and made even better by kids bean bags for lounging.

14. Adventure to the Park/Zoo/Aquarium

Bringing your playdate to a fun location like the local park, zoo, or aquarium isn’t just good for keeping the kids happy– they’re sure to learn something along the way. Just make sure their backpacks are pre packed for everything they’ll need along the way.

15. Puzzles

Build or buy a special puzzle before a playdate as a perfect quiet-time activity. Once it’s time for the kids to settle down, the puzzle will provide the perfect distraction to help them get there.

16. Game Night

Consider throwing a game night together for your next playdate. Full of plenty of fast paced games and breaks for snack time, the kids will stay entertained for hours. Make sure to check out our resource on fun family games for additional game night ideas.

17. Some Ideas for the Road

If there’s any extra time spent in the car during a playdate, consider reading our guide on travel games for kids. There you’ll find activities ranging from highly engaged to low energy– something for everyone.

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10 Fun Indoor Playdate Ideas for Toddlers

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You’ve got two toddlers and three hours. And…GO! 

Playdates among toddlers are super-duper adorable: Nothing is cuter than wide-eyed, chubby-cheeked tots playing with, say, a pile of stuffed animals. However, at age two or three, children can’t really play independently—making playdates a little more hands-on and involved for you…the parent host. So it’s totally normal to have a head-scratching moment of, “What are we going to do for three hours?!” 

No worries, you got this. And to help you out, we’ve got this: a list of 10 ideas for hours of toddler fun. Some of these ideas are even taken directly from our classroom playbook, which means there’s some learning happening, too—so you can consider yourself a super-parent playdate maker and give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back! 

Growing Bodies Need Snacks…Seemingly Every Hour on the Hour

Turn at least one snack break into an activity of its own: Having your charges help out with the snack-making can play a big part in growing healthy eating habits. Win, win, win!

1. Host a toddler crudité cooking class

Kids love cutting things themselves: It makes them feel grown-up and gives them a chance to practice their still-developing fine-motor skills. Host a little cooking class by having them make their own toddler-friendly crudité.

All you need is a kid-friendly assortment of easy-to-cut fruits and snacks (like peeled bananas, strawberries, string cheese, or cooked carrots) and kid-friendly cutlery. Provide them a cutting board and a fancy platter to arrange their finger foods on, add some dipping sauces, and voilà…you’ve got a half-hour activity that’s part art, part nutrition, and part confidence builder. (Check out our favorite kids’ cookbooks for even more fun and learning in the kitchen.)

2. Put the “ants” on the “log”

This classic snack made with bananas or celery, nut or seed butter, and raisins is twice as fun for kids when they make it themselves. Make an “ant hill” with raisins on a plate and place in the middle of the table where everyone can reach it. Let the toddlers have a try at spreading the nut or seed butter themselves with plastic knives. If you’re feeling particularly crafty, you could get out some forest-dwelling stuffed animals and set up a little scene (but hey, no need to knock yourself out). Invite your young pals to pretend to be anteaters as they eat their snacks!

Embrace the Mess with Easy-Peasy Painting Projects

These ideas take finger-painting a step further—and the results are pieces of art you can even send home with your guests. This is obvious, but you’ll want to have smocks on hand and some rags, towels, and newspaper to help with the mess. 

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3. Make some car tracks

Toddlers love slinging some paint onto paper, and they’re fascinated with things that go vroom! This activity mixes the pleasure of painting with the intrigue of motion.

What you’ll need: tempura paint in different colors, paper plates or paint trays, construction paper or butcher’s block paper, and a variety of toy cars and trucks with different wheels.

Pour a little paint on the paper plates (you don’t need much) and then have the kids run the cars through the paint (they may need your help with this). Once the wheels are good and paint-covered, they can “make tracks” by rolling the cars and trucks over the paper. Caution: This activity can be super exciting for car-enthusiast kids. Paint on floor is not just possible, but likely! An old sheet or cardboard underneath might be a good idea.

4. Go big and paint a whole mural

If you’ve ever read Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary, you might remember that Ramona’s dad gets through several sick days by painting a mural with her. Consider your playdate done and done with a big painting project like this one.

What you’ll need: big pieces of construction taped together or long butcher’s block paper, tape, paint, crayons, pens, glue, and glitter.

This activity works best if you can set it up ahead of time, ideally somewhere out of the way so you can guide the tots back and forth to the canvas during the playdate. Because you’re using a big piece of paper, you can give your painting structure by tracing outlines of the kids and different objects with crayons first. Or structure-smucture: if you’d rather, let them be free! Put out the materials and watch their little minds go to work creating a masterpiece.

This one can be a parent stunner at pick-up!

Sensory-Seeking Activities Always Provide a Special Thrill

From birth to early childhood (and into adulthood, really), sensory stimulation (sight, hear, touch, taste, and smell) plays a key role in helping little brains make all those important neural connections. Age-wise and developmentally, toddlers are smack in the middle of learning about the world through their senses, which is why they love to do things like play in dirt, mush play dough, put bubbles on theirs heads, and throw glitter…well, everywhere. These next options are all about that.

5. Make a magical squish bag

Looking for a super easy way to make a fun, squishy plaything? Look no further.

What you’ll need: plastic baggies, non-toxic kids’ hair gel, and glitter.

Fill a plastic bag with hair gel (make sure to go the non-toxic route) and glitter. Double-bag it for safety and to avoid a mess from any accidental breaks. Done. They’ll stay occupied squishing the bag for a while. (Just make sure that’s all they do with it! No one wants globs of goo everywhere.)

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6. Make your own play dough

We know what you’re thinking! Why? It’s already cheap and easy to buy. Well, besides being cheaper, and truthfully very easy to make, homemade play dough can serve a double purpose if you add lavender essential oil to it. Voilà! You’ve got a fun and calming activity for them.

You can find easy recipes for this one online, but we’ve got a few tried-and-true options here. You can add in essential oil once the dough is made (a little will go a long way). Afterward, hand out those cookies cutters and rolling pins, and go to town!

7. Put suds in a tub

Fill a plastic tub with suds, toys, and cups, and you’ve got endless fun for toddlers. (And yes, probably a very wet floor, so get those towels ready.) Cups and whisks and bowls are great for play: Just watch them make “bubble pies” and whip up even more suds with the whisk.

What you’ll need: tub with water, baby soap, plastic baby dolls, pretend play dishes, sponges, rags, and towels.

Beyond bubble play, you can also turn this activity into a lesson in kindness by adding dolls to the “baby bath.” When the babies are good and clean, ask your little helpers to wrap them in towels, dry their hair, and even get them ready for bed. This is a great way to build positive qualities like empathy.

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8. Have a shadow puppet show

For toddlers closer to three years old, flashlights are one of those common household objects that go a long way in entertainment. (For starters, tots love pushing the on/off switch.) Make a room in your house a little darker, and you can have a light show or a shadow puppet show!

What you’ll need: flashlights toddlers can handle. Optional: Chopsticks, paper, and tape.

For the shadow puppet show, cut out shapes of animals and objects (easy ones like bunny ears and stars!) then tape the paper shapes to chopsticks. Kids LOVE seeing the different sizes and shapes the shadows make.

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9. Give them a cardboard box (or five)

Enough said. Just put them in the middle of the living room. You’ll see. Pretty soon, you may have a house or rocket ship or a place for secret tea party with their favorite stuffed critters. (Warning: They might ask for markers.)

10. Don’t forget the dance party

There’s nearly nothing more adorable than watching a toddler shake it with all he’s got. Turn on the tunes and let your little friends unleash whatever wiggles they have inside of them. Taking a little time to dance can also be a great stress reliever if there’s been a squabble (yes, squabbles will happen at this age—toddlers still haven’t developed the social skills they need to share)!

Last but not least, the secret to successful playdates is really all about finding a natural rhythm that works for all the people in the room, including you. We’ve listed some great (and easy) activities above—pick one or two and then let the rest of the afternoon be filled with unstructured activities, like playing with toys and costumes, reading books, or listening to audio stories.

If you can find a good cadence, the kids will have a ball and you won’t feel overtaxed! (And that’s really a playdate win!)

Educational games for 3-4 year olds with parents at home

For a 3-4 year old child, play is the main way to interact with the world. In the game process, the child develops logic and thinking, trains memory, expands communication skills, and strengthens physically. We have collected games that will appeal to both the baby and his parents, because they will be not only fun and interesting, but also useful.

Article content:

• Outdoor games
• Educational games
• Educational games
• Tips for parents
• Terminals

Outdoor games

Active games are aimed primarily at physical development. The kid improves coordination, attention, endurance. Regular activity strengthens the immune system and is the best prevention of diseases. Find out what you can play with your child at home or on the street.

1. Keeping balance. The parent lays out a rope or a long rope (such as a linen rope) on the floor. The child should walk along it, spreading his arms to the sides. The game can be made more difficult. For example, a child can carry a glass of water in his hands (of course, plastic) or hold a small book on his head.

2. Collecting flowers. For this game, you will need several squares of colored paper, as well as a path, which can also be made from paper or, for example, a long scarf. The track is placed on the floor, pieces of multi-colored paper are scattered around it. We imagine that we are walking along a path, on both sides of which flowers grow. The facilitator (parent) periodically says how many and what flowers need to be collected. For example, 3 yellow or 5 red. The child stops and collects the right flowers. This game not only teaches coordination, but also distinguishes colors and recognizes numbers.

3. Sly fox. A mobile game that children love very much. It is more interesting to play it when there are many participants, but you can also play it together. The participants stand in a line, and the leader moves a few meters away and turns his back. The task of the player is to reach the leader. But you can only go when he is not looking! And when the leader turned, the participant must freeze, or they will have to go to the start.

4. Traffic light. For this game, you need to prepare red, yellow and green circles that can be made from colored paper. Each color represents a specific action. For example, the host shows a green circle – the child is running, yellow – jumping on 1 leg, red – crouching, etc. The game can be started with three signals, but when the baby remembers them, complicate and add new ones.

Educational games

All games are educational for a child. But adults by developing games usually mean those that are aimed at studying any objects, phenomena. Such games develop intelligence, broaden horizons, improve memory, attention and speech.

On the development of motor skills

The development of fine motor skills directly affects the formation of speech, self-service skills, thinking, memory. At home, you can use various household items for games: buttons, clothespins, colored pasta, pencils, etc. On the street you can take cones, chestnuts, sticks. Consider several options for games for the development of motor skills.

1. Piggy bank. Let’s take 2 cans. Pour beans into one of them, and leave the other empty. A cover with a small slot is put on the second. The task of the child is to shift the beans from one jar to another. Alternatively, you can use the steam container from the multicooker (with small round holes). You can put pasta in them.
2. Groats drawing. PVA glue is applied to a sheet of paper, cereals are poured on top in a certain order. You can use semolina, wheat groats, buckwheat to create multi-colored patterns.
3. Beads. The child is given a fishing line on which objects must be strung. It can be beads, buttons and even drying. Objects should not be too small, otherwise it will be difficult for the child to cope with them.
4. Flower. Cut out a circle from paper – this will be the base of the flower. We will give the child colorful clothespins. He should attach them in a circle as if they were flower petals. In parallel, you can memorize colors and lay them out in a certain sequence.

For the development of logic

Logical connections are a very important part in the development of a child’s thinking. To understand why and why, simple and exciting tasks will help.

1. Find the extra. For this educational game, you will need special cards or sheets that can be found on the Internet and printed. The task for this age usually contains four simple subjects, one of which does not fit into the group for a certain reason. These can be color, shape, skills (for example, flies – does not fly), the purpose of the object (clothes, dishes, etc.) and other signs. It is important to allow the child to think independently.
2. Divide into groups. A similar task, but here you need to select from the abundance of objects those that belong to a certain group. For example, vegetables, fruits, pets, toys, etc.
3. Say the opposite. A child at 4 years old already understands what antonyms are, that is, words with the opposite meaning. The parent says “hot” – the child answers “cold”, etc. Use understandable words: quiet-loud, white-black, sad-cheerful, deep-shallow, wet-dry.
4. Who needs what. This game requires a ball. The facilitator says the profession, for example, “doctor”, and throws the ball to the child. He must answer what the doctor may need (thermometer, syringe, white coat) and throw the ball back.

For the development of speech

It is important to develop speech from birth. Talking even with a baby who is still silent seems strange, but in fact it is an investment in his future. Often, already studying at school, children cannot connect several sentences into a logical text, retell what they read, or talk about some event. To prevent this from happening, at 3-4 years old you can offer such home games with children.

1. Describe the item. For this game, you need to collect several toys and put them in a box. The child takes out a toy and describes it. For example, the girl took out a doll. She can tell what size the doll is, what color her eyes and hair are, what clothes she is wearing, and come up with a name for the doll.
2. Tell me from the picture. For this game, you will need an illustration of some popular fairy tale (again, you can find it on the Internet and print it out, or just show it on the screen). The child must tell what he sees in the picture, what happened first and what happened later, how the story ended.
3. Everything is messed up. For this game, you can take the plot of a fairy tale that the child knows well. In telling it, you need to make mistakes. For example, the animals did not let the fox into Teremok, or Little Red Riding Hood went not to her grandmother, but to her friend. The kid must understand what is wrong in the fairy tale. You can dream up and compose your own fairy tale, in which the end will be different.

Educational games

At the age of 3, you can introduce your child to letters and numbers. The number is average, sometimes more developed children show interest in letters even at 2 years old. But there is no need to rush and force the baby to study – this will only discourage the desire to learn new things.

For learning to read and write

A popular technique for learning letters is to hang cards in different places in the apartment/room. And you can do this without even waiting for the age of three. Cards with letters should be bright, arouse the interest of the child. If the baby does not ask what kind of letter it is, you should sometimes pronounce them on your own. You can hang a card with a letter on an object that begins with it. For example, hang the letter L on a chandelier, and the letter T on a TV. Periodically, cards need to be changed, outweighed in other places.

The following ideas are useful for learning about letters.

1. Application. Cut out large letters from paper. For decoration, you can use cereals (motor development!), Cotton wool, fabric, beads, sparkles – whatever you like. When decorating a letter, be sure to pronounce it many times so that the baby remembers what it is called.
2. Find the letter. Print the letter in several copies. Keep one for yourself, hide the rest in the children’s room. Show the child a picture with a letter: “This is the letter O. Find 3 more such letters.” At the same time, the letters should be hidden so that they are not difficult to find, you can give the baby hints.
3. What’s in common? Place items (or images of items) that begin with the same letter in a bag. The child must take them out and pronounce the names aloud, and then guess which letter was guessed.

When the child knows all the letters of the alphabet, you can move on to the study of syllables and words. To do this, write syllables or simple words of 3 letters on cardboard squares. These will be houses. Then take small toys, for example, from kinder surprises, and find a house for each toy. At the same time, pronounce: the horse lives in the “MA” house, the squirrel lives in the “CO” house, the bunny’s house is called “KY”, etc.

For teaching math

Educational games with numbers are the basis for learning mathematics for a child of 3-4 years old. They teach not only to memorize numbers, but also to compare, solve simple problems.

1. Construction site. This game is suitable for both boys and girls. Build a brick house with your child. In this case, you need to determine how many floors there will be in the house, and how many apartments (cubes) on each floor. For example, on the 1st floor – 4 cubes, on the second – 3. To complicate it, you can take cubes of different colors and give tasks not only with numbers, but also with color (2 yellow cubes for the third floor).
2. Train. Make cards with numbers from 1 to 10 and invite your child to make a train out of them. Only for this you need to arrange all the cards in order, from 1 to 10. If everything is done correctly, the train will go on a journey.
3. Count the candies. Take two dolls (bears) and put them at the table to drink tea with sweets. Give one doll 2 candies, and the other 3. You can ask: “who has more candies”, “how many candies do two dolls have in total.” Then more dolls can come to visit, while the hostess will have to share the sweets equally among everyone. This game teaches not only to count, but also to think logically.
4. One-many. Play a mindfulness game. You can ask the child: “What items are many in the room? And what subject is one? For example, in the kitchen there are many plates, but there is only one table.

Tips for parents

In conclusion of the article, we will give some important recommendations.

1. For a baby, the game process itself, the action, and not the final result, is important. You should not be upset and even more so scold the child if the elephant you made looks more like a snowman.
2. The rules of the game must be simple and clear. At the same time, it is necessary to leave room for creative improvisation. It develops imagination and initiative.
3. Not all games may appeal to a child. You need to feel the mood of the crumbs and, if necessary, stop the game.
4. Exercise regularly with your child. Try to set aside at least 15 minutes a day for joint activities.

Conclusions

Games at home with children are interesting and cool, but there is not always time and ideas for this. In order not to deprive the child of the opportunity to fully develop, you can take him to a specialized children’s center or kindergarten “Baby Club”, where the child will receive the necessary skills in a playful way and will develop all types of intelligence. Specially equipped and safe rooms for classes are suitable for children of different ages: from 8 months to 7 years. Professional educators support the natural curiosity of children, directing it in the right direction.

100 fun games for kids aged 2 to 6!

What to do with the baby when it has been raining outside for several days?
He sits, looking longingly at the TV, losing his sense of reality.
Want to help him but don’t know how? Everything is solved very simply.
A little imagination, courage and enthusiasm and bad weather turns into a real holiday!

So we offer the top 100 games for kids aged 2 to 6.

1. Run with the “egg”. We put the ping-pong ball on a teaspoon and run around the whole apartment, trying to keep the ball on the spoon. From 3 years.

2. Talkers. We speak quickly. Who can last longer? From 3 years.

3. Think fast. One player quickly calls out a word. The other must immediately say what came to his mind in connection with this. Then we switch roles. From 4 years.

4.Veterinary hospital. We put soft toys in bed and treat them: we bandage them, give medicines, measure the temperature, put compresses, etc. From 3 years. You can also buy a special tent – a hospital. It will last for a long time, and you can come up with a huge number of games with it.

5. Make up. We paint the face in front of the mirror in the bathroom. From 4 years.

6. We give names. For each finger we come up with some funny name. From 2 years.

7. Keep balance. With arms outstretched to the sides, we walk, like a tightrope walker, along the very edge of the carpet. From 3 years.

8. We score goals. We mark the gate on the carpet with a rope. From some distance, we throw ping-pong balls at the gate. Each hit brings a point. From 3 years.

9. Think about people. We look out the window. We invent various stories about the people we see below. From 4 years.

10. Witch game. From the rope we lay out a circle. This is the witch’s house, in which one of the players – the witch – lies in wait for prey. The rest crawl around the witch’s house. When the witch comes out, everyone runs away very quickly. From 2 years.

11.Ghost game. Everyone wraps themselves in white scarves and circles around the apartment like ghosts, with terrifying sounds. From 4 years.

12. Dog game. One player is chosen as a dog. Others lead him on a leash throughout the apartment. From 2 years.

13. The game of steps. We climb the stairs step by step. We come up with a name for each new step. From 5 years.

14. Playing with a magnet. We put the magnet under the paper, and on the paper – a coin. Move the coin across the paper with a magnet. From 4 years.

15. Game of forfeits. We collect forfeits from the players. We ask others: “What should the player who owns this phantom do?” From 3 years.

16. We play traffic. With a thick brush and paints, we draw streets on a large sheet of paper. When the paints dry, we start circling the roads with a toy car. From 2 years. Or buy similar games here

17. We play ice cream parlor. Fill the yogurt cup with fruit juice, yogurt, etc. and freeze. Decorate ice cream and serve. From 3 years.

18. We play hide and seek. One is hiding in the apartment and the others have to find him. From 2 years.

19. We play robbers. We hide several items in the room. Returning to the room, the players must find the loss. From 4 years.

20. Toy money. We put the coins under the paper. With a soft pencil, rub over the top of the coin. Cut out paper money. From 5 years.

21. We depict a snake. The more players the better. We run around the apartment one after another. The guide tells the players what they should do, such as crawl around the table or roll around the room. From 3 years.

22. We are looking for pictures. The participant of the game is looking for some picture in an illustrated book. Others must guess it. From 2 years.

23. We are looking for a ring. We imperceptibly shift the ring into the fist of another player. You need to guess in which hand the ring is hidden. From 4 years.

24. Blot pictures. Spray ink on paper. Fold the paper with a blot inside, then unfold it again. Draw a picture from the prints. From 3 years.

25. Swing. One lays down on the bedspread, the others lift it higher and shake it. From 5 years.

26. Skittles. We arrange the cubes on the carpet, like skittles, and knock them down with a tennis ball. From 2 years.

27. We glue the collage. Newspaper or magazine pages are torn into pieces. From this we paste a color collage. From 3 years.

28. Room out of the box. From a shoe cardboard box we make a room. We draw furniture on paper, cut it out and paste it into a box. From 5 years.

29. Matchbox beds. We make beds from matchboxes, cut out pillows and blankets of suitable size from paper. We draw little men on paper, cut them out and put them in beds. From 5 years.

30. Who will blow further. We blow on corks from bottles so that they fly off as far as possible. From 3 years.

31. Domino tape. We make dominoes one after another into a long ribbon, placing them on a short edge. When the tape is ready, we push the first knuckle. All the knuckles fall, tipping over one by one. From 2 years.

32. We make paper animals. On thick paper we draw any animals. Cut out. Glue a strip of cardboard as a stand. From 5 years.

33. Making a picture book. Cut out pictures from a catalog or magazine. Paste it into a notebook and decorate the cover. From 4 years.

34. We make boats. We make boats from a nutshell: we glue triangular sails from paper. We let the boats float in a basin or in a bath. We blow them in different directions. From 2 years.

35. Mother and child (father and child). With a change of roles: adults play children and vice versa. From 2 years.

36. Mosaic. Cut out a rectangle from paper. Then cut it into 10 pieces of different shapes. Mix the pieces. Again, make a rectangle of pieces. From 5 years.

37. We string hearts. Cut out hearts from colored paper. We make a hole in each heart and string it on a string. We hang the chain. From 5 years.

38. We hum. One of the players begins to hum a melody. Others must recognize her. From 3 years.

39. Dress up dolls. We make outfits for dolls from patches. From 4 years.

40. Outline the hand. We put our hand on paper. Outline with a pencil. Cut out and paint with colorful patterns. From 5 years.

41. Omelet. From yellow colored paper, cut out a circle the size of a plate, fold in half. It’s an omelet. We fill it with various trifles (for example, old photographs, unexpected pictures, fragrant flower petals, raisins or coins for good luck). We serve the omelette on a plate and offer it to the assembled family members as a snack before meals. From 3 years.

42. We empty the wallet. We pour all the coins from the wallet onto the table and sort them. From 2 years.

43. Ping pong in the room. We sit on the floor. With the help of cardboard, we hit the ping-pong ball against the wall. From 3 years.

44. Throw up a balloon. A well-inflated balloon is tossed into the air. Use your index finger to push it up without letting it fall. From 4 years.

45. We crawl on our backs. We lay down on our backs and move around the room, trying not to hurt anything. From 4 years.

46. ​​We come up with hairstyles. We bring bows, hairpins and hair bands. We do unusual, fantastic hairstyles for each other. From 4 years.

47.Prince and princess. We glue crowns from golden paper and put them on. From 3 years.

48. Scratched pictures. We paint over the surface of the paper with colored wax pencils, on top – with black paint. With some object we scratch various squiggles and lines so that a colored base appears through the black background. From 4 years.

49. Hiding candy. All but one player leave the room. The remaining one hides ten sweets there, then calls the others again. Whoever finds the most candies wins. From 2 years.

50. Birds fly high. The players drum their fingers on the edge of the table. Everyone takes turns naming an animal. If it flies, everyone raises their hands, if it doesn’t fly, they continue to drum. If someone makes a mistake, then he gives his phantom. From 3 years.

51. “Inflate” pictures. We spray different paints on the paper, adding more water. We blow through a straw, we get multi-colored spots. From 3 years.

52. Telling stories. One begins to tell a story. In the middle he is interrupted, and the next one must continue the story. From 4 years.

53. Looking at photos. We invent and tell stories for photographs. From 2 years.

54. We draw musical pictures. We turn on the music. On a sheet of paper we draw multi-colored figures that are associated with music. From 4 years.

55. Draw on fabric. We paint fabric with textile paints, for example, an old T-shirt or a sheet. From 3 years.

56. We draw little men. We wet our finger. Then we dip it in ink and press it to paper. From the print we draw a little man: we finish the face, arms and legs. From 5 years.

57. Drawings with continuation. Put a red dot in the center of the sheet of paper. We suggest that the next one continue the drawing. From 4 years.

58. Destroy the tower. We build a tower from boxes or cubes. From some distance we are trying to destroy it with a ping-pong ball. From 2 years.

59. Horse racing. We jump on a tightly inflated balloon (there are special balls on which you can jump). From 2 years.

60. Folding pictures. We draw a head on paper, bend it back and pass it to another, who draws the stomach and arms, and pass it again, he finishes the legs and feet. We unfold and look at the picture. From 4 years.

61. Blind chicken. With our eyes closed, we try to pass from one room to another without hitting anything. From 3 years.

62. It is forbidden to laugh. We are trying to make our friend laugh by telling him all sorts of nonsense. His job is to stay serious. Who can last longer? From 3 years.

63. Building a house. We cover the table with a large tablecloth or bedspread. We get under the table. The main thing is not to forget the provisions. From 2 years.

64. Competition of runners. Everyone puts on very large shoes and races through the apartment. From 2 years.

65. Sort the cubes. All cubes are sorted by color and shape. From 2 years.

66. We put gates from bottle caps. We install a corridor of several gates. To do this, we make two caps with each other. We push coins through the gate with our finger. From 5 years.

67. We count cars. We look out the window. We make a bet on how many cars (or how many cars of a certain color or model) will pass by the house in some time. From 5 years.

68. We count points. For those who are learning to count. Let’s take turns throwing the dice. The one who scores more points wins. From 4 years.

69. Dancing. We turn on the music, then we dance like crazy. From 2 years.

70. Guess the animals. Each represents an animal. Others have to guess which one. From 5 years.

71. Guess the sounds. One player closes their eyes and tries to guess which of the other players just snored, grumbled, or meowed. From 4 years.

72. Learning to jump. Jump as long as you can on one leg. From 4 years.

73. Figure-rug. From trousers, shirts and boots we lay out a figure on the floor. We draw a face of a suitable size on paper, cut it out and apply it. From 4 years.

74. Football sitting. Two players sit opposite each other and play with their feet with a ping-pong ball. From 2 years.

75. Hats for fingers. From the circles we glue our own pointed hat for each finger. From 4 years.

76. Clicking a coin. Two players place a coin on the table and use their finger to shoot the coin from one to the other. From 4 years.

77. Something you don’t see. We think of some colored thing in the room. We name the color and ask you to guess this object. From 4 years.

78. With the help of a tablecloth and towels, we turn the table into a cave, where you can hide from everyone so comfortably. Or we turn the nursery into a treasure island, and children into treasure hunters, for which parents need to hide some new toys in different places (dolls, cars, balloons, etc.).

79.Both two-year-old kids and first-graders are very fond of different boxes, caskets and drawers stuffed with all sorts of things, in which rummaging is a pleasure. Chance, fantasy, passions and the age of the child will help to make something exciting out of this simple activity (just do not leave children under three years old unattended so that they do not accidentally swallow some small object).

80. Sort trinkets. We take out buttons, nuts, spools of thread from the box and sort them. The same applies to chestnuts, sea pebbles and shells brought from vacation or brought from the last walk. We advise you to stock up on empty boxes and jars in advance (from two years).

81. We count money. We shake out a trifle from a purse and we learn to count it. You can examine the contents of your mother’s bag (after removing everything more or less dangerous from it: headache pills, etc.) (from two and a half years).

82. We put the photos and pictures in order. We carefully consider and arrange family photos and pictures taken on vacation in order (let the children have second copies that you don’t mind spoiling). The same can be done with the image of animals, toys and children from catalogs and illustrated magazines.

83. We help around the house: we load the washing machine. Let the baby give his mother the laundry prepared for washing or even load it into the car himself – even a one and a half year old baby can handle it.

84. We clean up. Wipe unpolished doors, cabinet doors or floors with a damp cloth or sponge. You can also do wiping toy cars, doll houses, boats (from three years old). Younger children can dust off with a soft brush.

85. We bake pies. Knead the dough a little more than required. Set aside a small portion in a special plastic bowl. Let’s give the child some cocoa, grated nuts, coconut flakes and give him a spoon. We bake children’s pies separately on a small baking sheet (from three years old).

86. We are engaged in creative disgrace. If you supply the baby with paints, glue, paper and children’s scissors (with round ends), he will have great fun, even if he is not yet three years old. Cover the table with newspaper so as not to get dirty, put on an adult shirt or T-shirt as a working dressing gown for the child. Use a water-soluble adhesive that does not contain chemical solvents (it will not give off toxic fumes and is easy to clean).

87. Minting coins. Place a coin under a piece of paper and shade it with a pencil until the image of a coin appears. Carefully cut out the image (from the age of three).

88. We make seals. For the manufacture of seals, corks, potato quarters, potato wedges are suitable. Pour some paint (for finger painting) into a saucer, moisten the signet, and then press it against the paper or the surface of the box. Parents can cut a signet pattern with a knife on a potato or cork (from two and a half years old).

89. Making a collage. We cut out pictures from old catalogs and magazines and paste them on paper or cardboard (from two and a half years). Older kids can cut out pictures on their own (from the age of three).

90. We create landscapes. You can, for example, take cotton wool, pieces of white tracing paper, adhesive tape for sparkles, foam plastic, small twigs and pebbles as trees and rocks and create a winter landscape. Use hard cardboard for the backing. You can also depict the country of dinosaurs, a dense forest, a summer lawn (from three and a half years old).

91. We make stained-glass windows. Together with your child, paint window panes in the nursery with easily washable paints (from three and a half years old).

92. We make figurines from salt dough. Take 2 parts salt, 2 parts flour and 1 part water. Mix flour with salt, add water and knead the dough (with your help). The dough dries quickly, so it needs to be kneaded in small portions. Now you can sculpt, for example, products for a store or a toy kitchen, or other figures. We put the figurines in the oven and dry them for three hours at a temperature of 100 degrees, and then paint them with poster paints (from the age of three). 93. We write letters. A letter to grandparents, best friend or friend is simply drawn and sealed (from the age of four).

94. Building a city. This is a game with a sequel. Take an old plain tablecloth or sheet, spread it on the floor, attach the corners to the floor with duct tape or press down on them with some kind of weight. With a thick felt-tip pen, apply the main highways. Let the child finish the rest, later he will be able to arrange figures and cars on this canvas and play with them (from the age of four).

95. We play performances. Invite the children to come up with a dance, gymnastic or circus number and show it to the public (parents). You can take photos for memory.

96. We string ‘beads’. Pasta or clothespins (and if there are, then shells, large wooden or plastic beads) are very convenient to string on shoe laces with hard tips (from three years old).

97. Cooking surprises. You can turn all sorts of little things into great gifts for friends or parents. For example, let the kid wrap the lollipop in foil himself, attach his drawing on top, wrap it all in newsprint, put a balloon on top, etc. And finally, you can wrap everything in beautiful wrapping paper.

98. We wash doll clothes. You can arrange bathing dolls. To do this, place a plastic basin with lukewarm water on the floor, adding a little shampoo (from two and a half years).