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Activities to Keep Kids Engaged

May 29, 2017 By Ayesha Marfani-Muslim Author 20 Comments

Vacation are here, and it means that the kid’s interaction time with mothers increases. A lot of mothers are worried on how to keep kids engaged and productive.

Keeping kids involved in fun and productive activities is tough. I have found some amazing and simple activities to keep the kids engaged. You can try them out and share your experience in the comment box.

 Stacking Fun:

Material:

  • Stacking cups

Stacking:

Stacking is fun, and a kid can spend a lot of time with stacking stuff.

Inverted stacking:

Put all the stacking cups upside down as shown in the video then allow the kid to stack them.

http://www.wordscatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TRIM_20170525_133854.mp4

Kids creation:

Sometimes kids can create their own game and see how my kid created his own stacking game:

Skills: Creativity, focus, and concentration, fine motor skills, critical thinking

Transfer fun:

Beads transfer:

Material:

  • Two or more bowls
  • one spoon
  • beads

Method:

Put the beads in the bowl and allow your kid to transfer it using spoons.

Note: you need to demonstrate your kid once

http://www.wordscatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TRIM_20170525_133513.mp4

Water transfer:

Material

  • One bowl filled with water
  • One bowl empty
  • a spoon

Method:

  1. Put the bowl filled with water and an empty bowl in front of the kids
  2. Give the kid a spoon
  3. They will create amazing ways to transfer the water
http://www.wordscatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/VID_20170518_173445225.mp4

Toddlers fishing game:

Material

  • a bowl filled with water
  • one or more empty bowls
  • some colored sheets and fish stickers
  • a scissor

Method:

  1. Take a bowl filled with water and two empty bowls
  2. put some fish stickers in the bowl filled with water.
  3. Allow the kid to cut their fishes and put in the water.
  4. Give them spoon to allow them to catch the fishes and transfer to other bowls.

See the video demonstration.

http://www.wordscatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/VID_20170518_175147537-2.mp4

Skills: fine motor skills, creative thinking, consistency, focus, grip

Imaginative storytelling:

Paper cut out stories

  • a paper
  • a pen
  • a scissor

Method:

  1. Make any object telling kids its characteristics.
  2. Then cut the object out.
  3. Create a funny story on that cut-out.

Sample story:

I drew a baby cow and cut it out. See the picture below

Ahmad saw a baby cow. Ahmad cut it out. She ran to her mother crying.

Mother Mother, “Ahmad cut my ears” ( I took the pen and highlighted the ears)

The Mother Cow said, “Look there are your ears.”

The baby cow smiled but then started crying and said, “But Ahmad cut my tail.” (I took the pen and emphasized the tail)

The Mother cow said, “Look this is your tail.”

The Baby Cow smiled, but then he felt sad and said,”Mama, I think Ahmad cut my legs.”

Mother Cow replied,”Can you walk for me and bring that grass.”

The Baby Cow moved swiftly and giggled, ” I have my legs as I can move but what about my horns.” ( I took the pen and emphasized the horns)

The Mother Cow gave a mirror to the baby cow, “See your horns.”

The Baby Cow felt happy and said, ” I am all fine.”

Modeling clay stories:

Material:

  • Some soft toys
  • modelling clay

Method:

  • Create dough models
  • Then tell an amazing story

The model helps the kids to visualize things much better and improve their interest.

See the sample models I made

Dough Models

Card Stories:

Material:

  • Card sheet of various colors
  • some glittered sheets

Method:

  1. Make any scene with various patterns on the card sheet.
  2. Allow the child to cut the patterns with you.
  3. Then create a story on that card

see the sample below

Ahmad’s Mama wanted Ahmad to sleep early. He tried to sleep in his room but he couldn’t. 

He dragged his bed out and saw a beautiful night. It was dark, and he saw the crescent. He saw the stars and started to count them. 

One, two, three, four, five…….., nine and then he slept.

Skills: Vocabulary, picture description, storytelling, Imagination, creativity, concentration, and focus

Arrangement fun:

Material:

  • wooden beads
  • dough balls
  • any other material that can be arranged

Method:

  1. You can give the beads to the kids and ask them to arrange.
  2. You can also make dough balls and ask and let the kids arrange them.

The following are some of the arrangement techniques I tried with my kids:

http://www.wordscatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/VID_20170510_211539725-1.mp4
http://www.wordscatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/VID_20170522_211022620.mp4

Skills: creativity, arrangement sense

Dough Decoupage:

Material:

  • A drawing of anything
  • colored dough

Methods:

  • Make small balls of different colors and other patterns from dough.
  • Take a picture and then ask the kids to press the balls and patterns on the picture
  • See the video demonstration of the method:

 

http://www.wordscatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/VID_20170524_174740575.mp4
http://www.wordscatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/VID_20170524_174937865-2.mp4
Dough Decoupage Picture in Final Shape

Skills: creativity, critical thinking

Ringa Roses of vocabulary:

Sometimes kids aren’t in the mood to sit still and learn. For that, I invented this game. I play Ringa Roses and then roam all around the room and touch different objects. I ask my kids to name the objects I am touching. This helps him to utilize the energy in something productive.

Skills: Vocabulary, exercising

Hope you enjoy the post. Please share your experience with the activities.

Filed Under: Learners' Treasure Chest Tagged With: creativity, funlearning, homeschooling, kids engagement, parenting, productivity

Comments

  1. Rabea says

    May 29, 2017 at 10:14 am

    Nice great activities
    Keep it up

    Reply
  2. Halima says

    May 29, 2017 at 10:56 am

    Awesom..simpky amazing.. v nice..o interacting ur kidoo in dse actuvities can do miracles

    Reply
  3. M says

    May 29, 2017 at 5:08 pm

    Very interesting. Especially the interactive ones where the kids have to make up the stories. Great ideas for younger and older kids

    Reply
    • admin says

      May 30, 2017 at 6:02 am

      Thanks!

      Reply
      • Anitra says

        June 18, 2017 at 11:34 pm

        That’s a moebedrlak-r. Great thinking!

        Reply
    • Kayleigh says

      June 18, 2017 at 11:32 pm

      I can’t hear anthiyng over the sound of how awesome this article is.

      Reply
  4. Aisha Aamir says

    May 30, 2017 at 4:59 am

    Wow what a big bunch of lovely ideas ….very interesting !!

    Reply
    • Ally says

      June 18, 2017 at 11:28 pm

      That’s a wise answer to a tricky queositn

      Reply
  5. Elspeth says

    June 2, 2017 at 8:40 am

    Lots of great ideas here!

    Reply
  6. Nomadic Bites says

    June 2, 2017 at 8:48 am

    Thanks for sharing such great ideas with simple everyday household items!

    Reply
  7. rushtosuccess says

    June 2, 2017 at 9:08 am

    Nice ideas. Liked the way you put it all up on your blog. JazakiAllah khair.

    Reply
    • admin says

      June 2, 2017 at 9:19 am

      Thanks

      Reply
      • admin says

        June 2, 2017 at 9:19 am

        Thanks

        Reply
    • Lissa says

      June 18, 2017 at 11:26 pm

      I can’t hear anyntihg over the sound of how awesome this article is.

      Reply
  8. Suhaila says

    June 2, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    Nice ideas! We are doing a lot of water transfer at our house as well. I put out three small bowls of water in a larger tray, and then I use food colouring to make the bowls red, yellow, and blue. They do colour mixing as well that way 🙂

    Reply
  9. Yousra Naeem says

    June 2, 2017 at 6:04 pm

    Such fun and interesting ideas. Loved them!

    Reply
  10. Aicha says

    June 3, 2017 at 12:12 am

    Thanks for sharing this is a great resource to keep children busy great article and good videos

    Reply
    • Melly says

      June 18, 2017 at 11:14 pm

      Now I’m like, well duh! Truly thkuafnl for your help.

      Reply
  11. Emmy says

    June 18, 2017 at 11:37 pm

    That’s way the betsest answer so far!

    Reply
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