Rainy DAy Activities for Kids
| by Carline Brose | July 09, 2007
ACTIVITY FOR A RAINY DAY
School's out for the summer and the kids are bored. What are you going to do?
Keeping kids busy on a rainy day can be a chore.
Next time it rains, try making play dough with your children. It's fun, its easy, and above all it's cheap.
Not only is it fun to squish and squeeze and mold, when you make it together your child has the opportunity to learn about measuring, cooking, and safety in the kitchen.
This is my favorite play dough recipe:
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
4 teaspoons cream of tartar
2 cups water
2 tablespoons cooking oil
Food coloring
(optional) Food extracts, such as almond, vanilla, lemon or
peppermint
To make the play dough:
1.Add the food coloring to the water. Then mix all of
the ingredients together in a pan.
2.Cook over medium heat, stirring until it forms a soft ball.
3.Let the mixture cool.
4.Knead .
5.Add food extracts to different
chunks of the dough to make different smells.
Tell your child about each step as you are making the dough. When it is safely possible let your child help and learn about measuring and mixing, as well as kitchen safety.
Once the dough is ready to be played with give your child some things to use in playing with the dough.
For example:
1. straws or popsicle sticks to stick in the dough
2. objects, such as a toy mallet, to pound with
3. things to make impressions with such as jar lids, plastic cookie cutters, bottle tops
Go to http://www.coloring-pages-and-more.com for more rainy day activities for kids.
School's out for the summer and the kids are bored. What are you going to do?
Keeping kids busy on a rainy day can be a chore.
Next time it rains, try making play dough with your children. It's fun, its easy, and above all it's cheap.
Not only is it fun to squish and squeeze and mold, when you make it together your child has the opportunity to learn about measuring, cooking, and safety in the kitchen.
This is my favorite play dough recipe:
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
4 teaspoons cream of tartar
2 cups water
2 tablespoons cooking oil
Food coloring
(optional) Food extracts, such as almond, vanilla, lemon or
peppermint
To make the play dough:
1.Add the food coloring to the water. Then mix all of
the ingredients together in a pan.
2.Cook over medium heat, stirring until it forms a soft ball.
3.Let the mixture cool.
4.Knead .
5.Add food extracts to different
chunks of the dough to make different smells.
Tell your child about each step as you are making the dough. When it is safely possible let your child help and learn about measuring and mixing, as well as kitchen safety.
Once the dough is ready to be played with give your child some things to use in playing with the dough.
For example:
1. straws or popsicle sticks to stick in the dough
2. objects, such as a toy mallet, to pound with
3. things to make impressions with such as jar lids, plastic cookie cutters, bottle tops
Go to http://www.coloring-pages-and-more.com for more rainy day activities for kids.
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