Have you run out of things to do with your child?  Here are 60 things you can do RIGHT NOW!

1. roll a ball back and forth to each other.  

2. Scoop dirt or sand into a child's bucket (or use a serving spoon and bowl)

3. Practice climbing by putting all of the couch cushions on the floor (only with adult supervision)

4. Put on a puppet show

5. Run through a sprinklerl

6. Have water play-- fill up the kitchen sink with water, plastic cup, spoons, funnel, etc.  Have lots of towels handy

7. Make homemade play dough-- see recipe on recipes page

8.  Bang on pots and pans with a wooden spoon

9. Make a drum out of an oatmeal box

10.  Stick stickers on paper

11. Make a tupperware tower

12. Make cookies

13. Don't have enough ingredients for cookies?  Just throw what you do have into a bowl and make "pretend cookies"

14. Play "horsie"

15. Read a book

16. Act out the book you just read, using props, costumes, etc.

17. Make and try on paper hats

18. Blow bubbles

19. Play hide-and-seek: hide a stuffed animal for your child to find

20. Put a leash on a stuffed animal and walk around the house with it.

21. Record each other on a tape recorder

22. Write on windows with window markers

23. write on the sidewalk or driveway with sidewalk chalk

24. plant a flower or vegetable plant together

25. Make mud pies!

26. Got a chalk board?  get some water and a paint brush and water paint!

27. wash windows together

28. mop the floor together-- you might be surprised at how well your toddler can use a sponge or a mop

29. snip play dough or yarn with kid-friendly scissors

30. make a yarn collage

31.  practice putting things in and taking them out of boxes or bags

32. Make bracelets or collars for stuffed animals out of pipe cleaners and jingle bells

33. Learn numbers from a deck of cards

34. play a matching game with a deck of cards

35. make a domino chain

36. have a picnic in the park, backyard, or your living room! 

37. use a paper towel tube as a megaphone

38. cut out construction paper shapes and glue them onto paper

39. look for various shapes in the clouds

40. collect flowers (real, weeds, artificial, felt, etc.)

41. Make binoculars out of toilet paper rolls and go bird watching or stuffed animal watching

42. Do the hokey pokey

43. Make a toilet paper barricade for child to go over, under, or through

45. Let your child make, decorate and eat an open face peanut butter sandwich (raisins for eyes, banana slice for nose, etc.)

46. Make and play with "Goop"-- recipe on recipes page

47. Make a shoebox train for stuffed animals

48. String cheerios or fruit loops on pipe cleaners

49. Go on a Nature Hike!

50. Make a collage with all of the things you found on your nature hike (twigs, pine cones, acorns, leaves, etc.)

51. Build a block tower as high as you can

52. Make a book using photographs-- have your child dictate the words to you.

53. Take all of the little pieces of crayons and melt them in a muffin tin on 200 degrees-- watch carefully!  Let them cool and then draw!

54. Play a computer game

55. Sing songs together

56. Read books

57. Dance!

58. Skip, do jumping jacks, stretch, put together a whole exercise routine!

59. Play a game with milk jug tops-- cut an opening in an empty plastic container (butter or cool-whip) and put them in

60. Make maracas-- put dry rice into plastic Easter eggs (or any plastic container with a lid), tape it up and shake!