5 Ways to Entertain Kids on a Rainy Day
I have some pretty active kids as do many of you, and although often they can occupy themselves, even when it's rainy, not always.
Rainy weekends can be difficult as can rainy vacations, especially if we are away from home, their friends, and all their toys and other stuff.
Here are a five ways to help pass the time and entertain kids when it's rainy of otherwise inclement outside.
Kids love games and playing games can certainly work well.
If you are away from home this can be tough, but we always carry a set of "Uno" cards in the car and worst case you can buy a cheap set of cards almost anywhere.
My youngest daughter is a bit too young to play so we usually team her up with an adult which works very well.
A family movie is another good idea.
There are plenty of kid's movies that are adult friendly as well, for example the Shrek movies and Kung Fu Panda.
Just because it's a kids movie doesn't mean you have to suffer.
Both movie theatres and a DVD at home work.
If at home, make popcorn and basically turn it into an event.
Arts and Crafts projects are also great rainy day activities.
My kids can play with Playdoh for hours and beads can occupy them for an entire afternoon.
If they are not interested in this, perhaps a new art or craft you've saved for a day like this might excite them.
For example, we whipped out some finger paints recently we'd been hiding and the kids were almost doing backflips from the excitement! Building a fort inside from furniture, pillows, towels, and maybe more can also be a great activity.
You do need to set some ground rules as to what they can and can't use, and perhaps explain the fort needs to be disassembled and the parts put away before bedtime.
They may want you to help as well, with might just mean advise them based on their ideas.
Of course you might just go outside as well.
My kids won't usually do this themselves but if I do too they sometimes will.
We were on vacation at the beach recently and we had some grumpy kids due to a rainy day.
We did a movie in the morning, and then we went to the beach anyways in the rain.
We played Frisbee and ball, swam, ate, and pretended it wasn't raining.
Although we got cold and wet after an hour or two, the kids are still talking about how fun it was!
Rainy weekends can be difficult as can rainy vacations, especially if we are away from home, their friends, and all their toys and other stuff.
Here are a five ways to help pass the time and entertain kids when it's rainy of otherwise inclement outside.
Kids love games and playing games can certainly work well.
If you are away from home this can be tough, but we always carry a set of "Uno" cards in the car and worst case you can buy a cheap set of cards almost anywhere.
My youngest daughter is a bit too young to play so we usually team her up with an adult which works very well.
A family movie is another good idea.
There are plenty of kid's movies that are adult friendly as well, for example the Shrek movies and Kung Fu Panda.
Just because it's a kids movie doesn't mean you have to suffer.
Both movie theatres and a DVD at home work.
If at home, make popcorn and basically turn it into an event.
Arts and Crafts projects are also great rainy day activities.
My kids can play with Playdoh for hours and beads can occupy them for an entire afternoon.
If they are not interested in this, perhaps a new art or craft you've saved for a day like this might excite them.
For example, we whipped out some finger paints recently we'd been hiding and the kids were almost doing backflips from the excitement! Building a fort inside from furniture, pillows, towels, and maybe more can also be a great activity.
You do need to set some ground rules as to what they can and can't use, and perhaps explain the fort needs to be disassembled and the parts put away before bedtime.
They may want you to help as well, with might just mean advise them based on their ideas.
Of course you might just go outside as well.
My kids won't usually do this themselves but if I do too they sometimes will.
We were on vacation at the beach recently and we had some grumpy kids due to a rainy day.
We did a movie in the morning, and then we went to the beach anyways in the rain.
We played Frisbee and ball, swam, ate, and pretended it wasn't raining.
Although we got cold and wet after an hour or two, the kids are still talking about how fun it was!
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