Now more than ever we need to bond with our kids. Distance learning, too much time on screens, to put it bluntly we're loosing childhood. Quality time is no easy feat with most venues closed due to the stay at home order, but there are still great ways to spend time together that are free or low cost.
Here's a list of activities:
1. Make Rice Krispie Christmas Trees Under $10
This recipe is easy and fun to make with kids. You're basically making Rice Krispie Treats, but adding green food coloring and some candy ornaments. My ten year old practically made treats entirely on his own. He even found the recipe online by himself.
2. Make Your Own Ornament From Supplies @ Dollar Tree $1
My son made his own Christmas ornament with a kit he bought for $1 at Dollar Tree. They had several kits. You can also make Felt Ornaments. Buy some felt at a crafts store, use cookie cutters to trace a design, cut the felt into your desired shape. Then sew it together and add cotton in the interior. You can make lovely ornaments to give as gifts!
3. Make a Homemade Snowglobe! $1
Everyone loves a snowglobe imagine the joy and feeling of accomplishment when your child can create their own. Best of all, most of the items you need to make one can be found in your own home.
4. Start a Holiday Movie Marathon! Free
Every December we watch holiday films every night. We have our own growing collection of favorites, but you can also find just about every holiday film at the Coronado Library (which is open during the CA stay at home order).
1 cup Baking Soda, 1 Cup Cornstarch and a few tablespoons of water and voila you made snow. Kids can shape it into snowballs, snowmen
6. Make Paper Snowflakes! Free
My son turned into Edward Scissor Hands putting snowflakes on our ceiling and windows. All you need is white paper and scissors.
7. Game Night!
We have about 30 board games in our home that were dusty pre-pandemic. Now they are in full use. It's a great way to bond with your family and pass the time.
8. Make Oobleck! Cost $1
You only need 2 ingredients-Cornstarch and Water! Great STEM activity, and sensory play.
9. Make Slime @ Home! Under $10
Baking Soda, Glue, and Contact Lens Solution is all you need to make your own slime!
10. Make Kinetic Sand @ Home $3
Kinetic sand can be pricey to purchase, but quite easy to make.
11. Make An Edible Santa's Sleigh Party Favor Under $10
My child makes these every year to give as gifts, cake toppers, or just as a decoration. This is an easy craft, that looks complicated.
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