THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR LITTLE
Sometimes it's hard to come up with fun, inexpensive things to do in a small city. With fewer options comes the opportunity for more creativity when finding a memory making experience. Below are ten ideas to make a positive, memory-filled day. Check back from time to time for more ideas.
You Can:
- Build a castle out of a refrigerator box
- Make dinner for the two of you to share
- Create an indoor, miniature golf course in your house
- Tie-dye t-shirts to wear on outings
- Make-up and play home-made board games
- Create puppets and put on a puppet show
- Learn a new sport or activity to do together
- Pretend to be a reporter and interview a neighbor
- Plan a pretend vacation to a exotic land
- Learn to sing a song and record your own version
EVEN MORE IDEAS!
Outdoors
- Take a leisurely hike
- Fishing
- Biking
- Canoeing
- Explore a local park or mountain
- Try out a new sport together
- Think, "earth day"
- Fly a kite
- Local sports games
- Make a snowman
- Ice-skating
- Sledding or tubing
- Take a local hayride
- Enjoy fall foliage
- Collect and rake leaves-make pressed leave collages with the leaves
- Mini Golf
- Go on a camera scavenger hunt
- Collect rocks, then wash them and paint on them with acrylic paint
- Take a walk with a momento bag & collect interesting leaves, rocks etc
- Make a bird feeder and hang it outside somewhere
- Have a picnic
- Plant a garden
Getting to know Each Other
- Share pictures, stories, and fun memories with your Little
- Make all about Me posters together - using magazine clippings, makers, paint etc
- Teach your Little a sport or hobby that you enjoy then ask them to teach you something
- Start a scrapbook of things you've done together
Rainy Days or Brainy Days
- Check out a museum or library
- Download cool site: snood.com
- Instead of ordering a pizza, MAKE YOUR OWN!
- Decorate Easter Eggs
- Bake a pie
- Create your own valentines
- Make a collage with pictures from old magazines and newspapers
- Make holiday cards and help your Little address and send them
- Think of New Year's resolutions
- Have a fun spa day….do finger and toe nails, facials, hair etc.
- Try yoga
- Roast pumpkin seeds
- Make a jack o' lantern
- Create and/or brainstorm Halloween costume ideas
- Talk about upcoming elections and related topics (appropriate ones)
- with your Little regarding the voting process and things of interest to you
- Surf the Internet for interesting things; here are a few sites: www.nick.com,
- www.pbs.org, www.fivecolleges.edu
- Burn a CD of your favorite songs
- Go to the movies or rent a video
- Paint an original T-shirt that both of you can wear
- Go bowling
- Write a letter to an author of a book your Little really likes
- Learn to count or learn some phrases in a foreign language
- Make some yummy cookies
- Start a stamp collection
- Finger-paint with chocolate, lemon or strawberry pudding
- Take turns styling each other's hair
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