Ideas for things to do at home with babies, tots and children
I’ve put together a list of things we’re working our way through at my house! Find the full list and details here.
Or check out this article just about things to do in your garden – short, quick, fun activities as it is cold and wet at the moment and not the time of year to be outside for too long! Read it here.
Check out these fab Mumbler colouring sheets to keep your little ones busy. You can download and print each one off by clicking on the purple text –
Something to do over half term week…Print off and colour in these lovely cards and send them to your family for this Valentines Day at home!
You can download and print off all 4 designs by clicking here.
We’ve been doing lots of craft, here’s a few of the favourite things we’ve made –
Loo roll animals
Rabbits, Chicks, Ladybirds, Caterpillars and much more! Wrap the loo roll in paper and stick on various bits to make it real! Don’t forget the googly eyes!
Crazy Creatures!
We turned a used plastic bottle into a piping bag to decorate some biscuits! We made the biscuits first as one activity (recipe below) but you could use plain Digestive’s or Rich Tea’s. Next we made our DIY piping bag –
Rinse out a plastic drinks bottle, remove the lid and make a small hole in it (we pushed a nail in with blu-tac behind to push into). Make some icing by mixing icing sugar with a little bit of water and add food colouring. Pour the icing into the bottle and you have a piping bag to create designs on your biscuits.
Biscuits – our recipe was a simple one:
We’ve made our own soaps as gifts for family and friends! It was super easy and nice to do some craft that was clean and nice to clear up rather than the usual load of glitter, paint and glue on the floor (in fact clearing up also doubled up as cleaning the kitchen!). It’s also gone down very well as a gift as everyone needs to wash their hands more than ever! We got this idea from the CBBC TV show Craft Party so thanks to them for the inspiration.
Take a plain bar of large soap. Grate with a cheese grater into a bowl. Add food colouring, choice of colour is up to you but my daughter chose pink as usual. Add 2-3 tablespoons of water and mix to a paste. Place into biscuit cutters to shape, we did hearts and stars. Pop in the fridge to set and that’s it! We took ours out of the cutters, wrapped in tissue paper and added some ribbon then went out on our scooters to deliver them!
I’ve put a list of ideas for entertaining toddlers at home, especially mess free ones (thanks to my sister and 20 month old nephew for some of these!). Read the full article here
Here are some useful online educational resources, some free and some you need a subscription:
We tried some shaving foam painting, it was fun and not too messy (as most of the mess was contained on a tray)! Ideal for any age, little ones will enjoy the textures and colours and older children will enjoy making the designs and mixing colours.
Here’s how ours turned out….
If we get some wet, rainy days this school holiday (I hope we don’t!), we have some Mumbler top rainy day ideas to help entertain little ones at home, including:
You can read the full article with details of how to do each one on Mumbler here.
