What a storm last night! So many around without power! Looking for ideas to keep the kiddos happy? Here are 105 great electricity-free ideas: 1.science experiments, flames, and safety 2.card games 3.reading books or plays out loud 4.ghost stories 5.board games, many you can also make yourself, like othello! 6.darts 7.shove h’penny 8.hang man 9.moving around the house without touching the floor (pretending the floor is the ocean) 10.shadow puppets 11.christmas card writing 12.origami 13.ten pin bowling with old water bottles as pins 14.hunt the thimble 15.hide and seek 16.model making 17.knitting and felting 18.art, picture drawing, painting 19.clay working or plasticine 20.making christmas decorations 21.writing letters to forgotten family 22.bingo 23.keeping a diary of the weekend 24.hop scotch 25.knots 26.rope making 27.kitchen science and cookery 28.three-legged race, sack race or egg & spoon race 29.music 30.dress up 31.magic tricks 32.making false teeth out of orange peel, 33.pass the parcel, 34.musical chairs, 35.paper games such as connect 4, battleships, connect the dots, etc 36.rock-paper-scissors 37.building structures with objects like cardboard egg boxes and tin cans, such as the tallest tower or the largest bridge span, 38.paper aeroplane competition 39.elastic band powered vehicles 40.morse code and secret messages 41.photography 42.claymation 43.tidying and cleaning and polishing 44.chinese whispers 45.quoit or hoopla or horseshoes 46.skipping rope 47.football 48.juggling and catch 49.kite making and flying 50.beachcombing 51.stilt walking (even on tin cans and string) 52.making toast, s’mores or toasting marshmallows on a real fire 53.nature walk 54.pin hole box camera 55.jigsaw puzzles 56.indoor basketball 57.brass polishing 58.bicycle repair 59.potato printing 60.charades 61.quizes 62.coconut shy (see bowling above) 63.pick-up sticks 64.i spy 65.radio, battery or wind up 66.simon says 67.paper trails and scavenger hunt 68.treasure hunt 69.20 questions, animal, vegetable, miracle 70.obstacle course 71.eating together and conversation 72.a walk in the dark 73.star gazing 74.blind man’s bluff 75.hula hoop 76.tent indoors with sheets 77.piggy in the middle 78.foursquare 79.mini table tennis 80.french cricket 81.boule 82.jacks and marbles 83.carol singing 84.pin the tail on the donkey 85.make popcorn 86.spin the bottle 87.balloons 88.homemade jenga 89.feely box 90.blind tasting or scent testing 91.indoor golf putting 92.newspaper construction 93.quick on the draw / pictionary 94.three draw – word, picture, word 95.dominoes 96.house of cards 97.mini tug o’ war 98.memory game 99.diy and using tools 100.story or poetry or cartoon writing 101.fishing indoors 102.Jack’s alive 103.bobbing for apples 104.crosswords and word puzzles 105.wildlife safari / snail hunt
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:14:47 +0000
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