Having Fun With Your Children

Having Fun With Your Children

It is important to support all areas of development when having fun with your children although sometimes it can be extremely difficult to think of new and exciting ways to have fun with your children, below is a long list of ways to entertain you and your children in the home and away from the home.

At Home:
Reading Books (non-fiction and fiction)
Practice turn taking board games eg. Ludo, snakes and ladders, draughts, chess and card games such as snap, fish and memory.
Games e.g. What's missing, I spy, animal, vegetable and mineral, where does it go?
Cooking e.g. Meals, bisects, cakes, snacks, drinks and salads.
Outdoor games e.g. hide and seek, hide an object, chasey, Mr. Wolf, treasure hunt, riding trikes, bikes scooters, pushing wagons, movers, pull-along toys, trampoline, climbing equipment.
Singing
Tongue Twisters
Rhymes and Poems
Dancing
Mattress, cushion, mat, pillow play
Play dough/clay/plasticine
Construction activities e.g. blocks, Lego, egg cartons, boxes sticks, models, cubbies, mobiles, pipe cleaners
Making books
Pasting e.g. Paper plate faces, paper bags faces, hats
Cutting/tearing
Colouring
Threads e.g. Pom poms, god's eye
Decorating e.g. eggs, rocks, rooms, photo grames, boxes, hats
Threading e.g. beads, pasta
Painting e.g. variety of surfaces and tools, letter writing, face painting, finger painting
Drawing e.g. Variety of surfaces and tools

Writing e.g. Variety of surfaces and tools
Stickers
Stamps
Train Set
Cars/trucks/tractors/trains/aeroplanes/boats
Mini people/animals
Plastic tea sets
Ball play e.g. Marbles, beach balls, cloth, newspaper, rubber, leather, plastic
Balloon play
Dress-ups e.g. Dolls, soft toys, children, Doctors and Nurses, bags, scarves
Drama
Printing
Stenciling
Paper folding/origami
Scrapbooking and card making
Listen to music/playing instruments/making instruments
DVDs and CDs
Knitting, needlework, weaving
Jigsaws
Water play/ice play
Shopping
Bubble blowing
Sand play/mud play/dirt play
Box Play
Science activities Felt board
Hoops, quoits, skittles
Brain Teasers
Computer Games
Party Games
Gardening e.g. Herbs, vegetables, flower, fruits, trees
Look at photos

Away from Home:
Go to the park e.g. fly a kite, kick or throw a ball, picnic
Walk e.g. around the block, in the bush, at the beach
Museums e.g. Science, General
Aquariums
Indoor Play Centres Library
Beach
Galleries
Drives
Visit friends and relatives
Movies
Pantomimes/live musicals/puppet shows
Concerts
Skating
Restaurants (or make a restaurant at home, children love to role-play)
Golf/mini-golf Go swimming
Skiing e.g. snow, water
Circus