Activities to Keep Kids Engaged

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.

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

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

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.

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

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:

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:

 

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.