What are the best rainy day activities for bored kids?
BOARD GAMES!!!! A couple of years ago, we were looking for activities to do during free time at our church’s bible camp. These kids are ALL techies – ALL have gameboys, advanced, sp, PSOne PS2 Xbox, Nintendo Gamecube, DS, DSMini – you name it, they’ve got it!!! Well, being the gameophile I am, I sugessted board games. In particular, LIFE and Scattergories. Well, they LOVED them!! So much so, that we HAD to go buy one to keep at church to be used with the set I had so more than just 6 people could play!! These kids ranged i age from 6 yrs to 15 or so. Also, check in your area for specials on bowling. In my area, the kids receive a free-game-a-day-for-the-summer bowling pass from an area bowling alley. It takes about an hour to bowl a game, and with commuting time, that’s 2 good hours shaved off your Mom-we-don’t-have-anything-to-do list! We took the kids from Bible Camp this year, and NOW they CAN’T get enough!!!!! Finally, try an indoor treasure hunt – kids LOVE that!! You can make it
I grew up in the Eighties, and didn’t get a games console until I was 8….. When I was a kid I always found surfing down the stairs on a tea tray or a duvet pretty good fun…We did get screamed at yes…but… 😛 Though we did go out and play in the rain too – we made spaceman visors and goggles out of card, sellotape and coloured clear plastic and had go kart races up and down the paths. We also made our own shop, we already had toy plastic fruit and veg, and we took tins and packets from the kitchen, made a conveyor belt out of plastic and cardboard boxes, and my brother had a till. It was cool! XD Cardboard boxes, card, sellotape and scissors are the best – you can make anything out of them, cars, houses, boats, shops, aeroplanes, make puppets out of old socks and make a cardboard theatre….we did! And even better, most boxes you can pick up from the supermarket for free. (But empty TV or computer boxes are the best, of course) Another thing I used to do is Mum used to let me pai
