Orly’s List of Fun, Enriching, and Educational Activities:
- build a city out of empty boxes and cans
- make a dollhouse using empty boxes and cans
- use cardboard tubes to make a marble run
- attach boxes together to make a giant robot, dragon, or whatever!
- make a diorama
- make a musical instrument
- use cans to make a mobile or wind chime
- create a bottle cap mosaic
- do some papier mache (make paste from flour and water)
- design a playground for an ant
- build a domino run (you don’t even need dominos- try it with books or other objects)
- make a Rube Goldberg machine
- if you can, spend time outside in your yard or in the woods
- write a story
- draw cartoons/comics
- create a scavenger hunt around your home for your family
- make a board game
- make your own puppets and put on a puppet show for your family
- bake something (if you double the recipe or halve the recipe, you are doing math)
- cook something together
- “Chopped” (Based on the cooking show, pick three random ingredients and create a meal out of them. Once, my children used kix cereal, lemon, and cream cheese.)
- have a daily debate
