HapyGirl

I'm so sorry about your cat Buttercup

Welcome to Mrs-S

Good Morning/Afternoon to everyone and pick up around here. School doesn't start until Aug 31 here so a bit more of the kids here all day to enjoy before they go back.

Welcome Peg!

Well DH got a job while he looks for a job in his field. He's driving a cab for Yellow Cab. It will make up the difference between the help my family is giving us and our expenses so at least we won't go bankrupt just yet. It is so frutrating that a man with 7 yrs of experience can't get a job that will pay the bills! Recovering economy my behind! I am trying to stay hopeful but a part of me is scared to death he is out of the tech field. At least they can't export this job to the third world!

Hi there and Welcome!

Welcome!

Welcome to Mrs-S

Buttercup she may not like it now but she WILL thank you later

Last post from Mountain Mommy on her site was 7/1 and her DH was home and able to walk, hopefully he's still recovering slowly at home.

Happy Birthday Nana!!!

My kids were sick of summer, and pestering me saying "I'm bored" too many times a day. The weren't able to come up with enough activities on their own, so I decided to help them out. I got a coffee can, covered it with contact paper and had them decorate it with stickers. Then I made up a list of activities they could do with me or with each other. Some for everyday, and some I put in an envelope for the weekends. Now when they want something to do they just go to the jar and everyone picks one. Then they do all 4. Some are things I normally restrict like extra t.v. and video game time, others are craft activities they might not think of on their own. SO far it's been a HUGE hit. My boys Asperger's syndrome makes it hard for them to want to try new things so this is actually therapy for them

 

Here's a list of the activites so you can try it!

Some of them come from 2 books I have called 365 days of creative play- Sheila Ellison and Judith Gray, and 365 things to make and do by Vivienne Bolton.

 

Paint with tempera paint and brushes

Go Fish

Dolls

Bean Bags

Invite a friend over to play TODAY

Pretend restraunt

Pretend store

Build a house of cards

“louder, softer” sing a song use whiteboad to underline words to whisper or shout

Sentances on a whiteboard- say funny- loud, soft, squeaky, silly

20 Questions

Flash cards

Chess

Checkers

Backgammon

Ocean Pick up Pairs

Quiddler

Gin Rummy

Make a newspaper hat

Wading Pool- fill and splash!

Watercolor

YMCA park

Grocery shopping with mom

Make a mask

Go find some ants and watch them for 15 min

“Silly Walk” Walk like mom says, High, low, like an animal

“Blind walk” Shut eyes and lead someone around and try to guess

Foil drawing with qtip p. 209 creative play

Play Chutes and Ladders

Play Skip Bo

Play Candyland

Make music with bottles and water

Write a story together

Sneaky Pete

Make homemade maracas and play!

Pick an activity from a book

“I spy”

Go on a walk and collect “treasures”

Make a picture using a hole punch

Start a pretty rock jar

Play with shaving cream- color and use as finger paint

Rake the leaves into a pile and jump in

Play pretend toy hospital

Dance

Play Freeze and Melt- p. 72 365 days of creative play

Make paper bag puppets

Make paper bag costumes

“Simon says”

“Shadow Tag”

Tag

Hide and Seek

“Walk like the Animals” p. 96 365 creative play

Balloon play- keep it in the air as long as you can

Make rice crispy treats

Play “copy cats” Try to mimic the other person and take turns making faces

Sidewalk Chalk pictures

Playdough

Go to the store and buy a plant and put it in the garden

Read the comics

Run through the sprinklers

Milkshake

Make Pudding

Make Jello

Help mom set the table for dinner

Play with mom with tube and matchbox cars

Cloud gazing

Make bookmarks, decorate and laminate them

Make paper flowers

Make paper dolls and clothes

Climb outside

Draw

Write a poem- mom will help

Come up with a new ending to a story

Make a crayon rubbing of leaves or other small objects

Make a bottle tornado

Get a treat at the store next time we go

Connect 4

Make a pipe cleaner sculpture

Make a colored wire sculpture

Juggle balls or beanbags

Make a paper doll theater

Coloring Books

Make a collage

Make a mosaic

Blow Bubbles

Go outside and slide

Go outside and play catch

Play dodge ball

Play hopscotch outside- use chalk to make hopscotch

Play marbles

Play Mother May I outside

Go sit outside and read for 15 min

Read inside for 15 min

Screen time of your choice for 30 min

Watch a movie! Make popcorn or another treat

Bake cookies

Make brownies

Make Popsicles and eat them tomorrow

Pokemon Monopoly

Master Trainer

Battleship

Twister

Labyrinth

Bill Ding with Mom

Crashing Cars

Dress Up

Pretend of your choice

Make a picture with finger paint

Listen to music for 30 min

Play music for 15 min with instrument Mom gives you

Play with water table in the backyard

Play in sandbox

Pick up sticks

Play with toy train set

Build with Blocks

Build with Legos

Build with K’nex set!

Build with Lincoln logs

Pet the cats

Sit and Spin

Magnets

30 min screen time

Upwords

Pose a person

Crossword Puzzle

Sponge painting

Tissue paper collage

Connect the dots

Carpet squares

Play with scarves

Make Paper Animals

Pick something from the “rainy day box”

Trouble

Hi Ho Cheerio

Perfection

Battleship

Dinosaur floor puzzle

Cash Flow for kids

Dominoes

Uno

Puzzle with Puzzle mat

Magnadoodle

Hula Hoops

Rescue Heroes

Light Sabers

Make a box car and go for a spin

Make a box rocket and blast off into outer space

Make a box house and have a party

Pretend Restaurant and have a real tea party

String Beads

Invite someone over for a sleepover

 

Chase

Talk with a friend on the phone

Have a sing along

Write an email

Make a card to send in the mail

Puzzle

Board game of your choice with mom

Cards

30 min computer time

Play with matchbox cars

Pillow fight

Go ride your bike/tricycle

Play catch

Go for a walk with mom to Clay st park

Swing outside

Build a indoor fort

Make a necklace or bracelet

Have an indoor picnic

 

Play in the tent- have mom help you

Read a book for 15 min together

Jump on the mini trampoline

Jump rope

Play memory

Play with the drums

Computer time

Watch a DVD movie

Watch a Videotape Movie

Watch 30 min T.V. – you choose time

Sidewalk shadows

Make a food sculpture with spread

Make up a nonsense story

Make a paper chain

Take a soccer ball to the Y field and kick it around

Pick a science experiment and we’ll do it together. Ask for help.

Make a piñata

Switch roles for the day- you be the parents and we’re the kids!

 

 

Weekend Projects

Roller skate

Bowling

Family Fun Center

Go to the pool and go swimming!

Make Sundaes together

Lithia Park Stream

Lithis Park playground

Garfield Park

Ice Skating

Bird Watching at Willow Wind

Have a potluck

365 days of creative play p. 155 Space Weaving

Pretend to be an animal

Make trailmix

Make an obstacle course

from 365 things to make and DO book-

Make a plate

Build a pretend garden on a plate

Make a bird feeder

Decoupage a box with leaves or pictures cut out of a magazine

Make a leaf picture

Make paper

Make ink

Make twig furniture

Dry flowers

Fragrant Plaques from salt dough Decorate a pot, and Pot a houseplant

Make lunch together- step by step

Make a foil picture frame together

Make candy

Make a napkin holder and paint it

Make placemats and stamp paint them

Paint a vase with glass paint

Make fridge magnets

Opposite world day

Make a pillow for your bed

Make friendship bracelets

Make oven bake clay brooches

Make a mobile

Make a mail holder

Paint a hand mirror

Make Beads

Make gift boxes and decorate

Make pop up cards

Make a boat and go sail it in the water table

Decorate a pair of shoes with fabric paint

Make a scrapbook

Paint a rock paperweight

Make a seashell treasure box

Make your own bowling pins

Make a blow soccer board and play

Make a cloth doll

Decorate a juice can to make a pencil holder

Make a treasure/ toy box using a cardboard box- paint it.

Make a decorated trash can for your room

Make a picture using yarn

Disco Ball

Planetarium

Make a time capsule as a family

Stargazing

Have a treasure hunt with map and everyone finds clues to find the “buried” treasure

Fossil Hunt! Go to Science works, or make your own!

Go to the library

Make homemade butter

Visit a local farm

Slip and slide

Make a clay sculpture

Make a photo family tree together

Make a magic wand

Make confetti eggs p.189 creative play

Plant tulips or other bulbs together in late fall

Family Game Day

Make your own movie with camera

Make a “magic movie” box p.203 creative play

Go on a hike and find a walking stick. Decorate it.

Make a scrapbook page for your scrapbook

Come up with a list of your 10 favorite activities

Make gloop

Make playdough

Make a volcano!

Water balloons J

Make smores

Make a Family T-shirt with paint and sponges

Go Camping

Homemade Quiddich from Family Fun Magazine

 

That is aggravating isn't it! I solved that problem at our house, DH and I use a Sonicare , and the kids each keep theirs in their own cup on the counter.

Welcome home! What a marvelous experience you had

That is a relief! Hopefully Fran will continue to amaze them

Good to see you

I cut my dryer sheets in half! They work just as well to cut down on static and they still make the laundry soft and smell nice.

 

I saved the bones from the turkey I roasted to make stock with.

I'll have to save this list, I have been wanting to read some fiction lately after all the Asperger's syndrome books I've had to read in the past year I am ready for a diversion.

 

The next book I am going to read is Eragorn, it's a book about a dragon I'm going to read out loud to the kids.

Thanks Hill, I bookmarked it for future reference for someday when I can garden again!

Awesome work there boss

Yay! Good job

Cat Hope DD heals fast and I'm glad she got through her surgery o.k. My best friend had that same kind of surgery and it takes awhile to heal.