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[crisdecuba]

Since our elementary school is virtual, we are doing a "learning pod" with a few other families so we can rotate childcare duties throughout the week. Tomorrow is our turn, and we'll have five 6-7-year-olds here.

Any ideas for fun games we can play during the down times? We're already going biking during "recess" time, so I need some indoor activities (we don't have a big backyard).

The ideas I have so far:

1. Jenga
2. Drawing on our sliding glass door with dry-erase markers
3. Maybe cornholl

Any ideas?

 

[Calcium]

Reenact the Civil War with water guns and balloons. Then shame the children portraying the South for being racist. They have fun and they learn.

 

[DESTROYA]

Put them to work and call it Gym class.
clean windows
rake the lawn
wash your car

 

[cormack12]

Drawing on the back game

 

[crisdecuba]

Drawing on the back game

Ooh good idea! Thank you!

 

[jshackles]

3. Maybe cornholl

What is this?

 

[-Arcadia-]

Honestly, just ask your kids. They’ll have a way better idea than any of us.

 

[crisdecuba]

Honestly, just ask your kids. They’ll have a way better idea than any of us.

No parents here?

 

[-Arcadia-]

No parents here?

Plenty of parents. It’s the opposite problem. We’re all a little out of touch, lol.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Catch good luck

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Find the sausage.

I enjoyed it when i played it as a kid with Gary Glitter and Jimmy Saville. I was never a fan of the taste though. One time the sausage leaked this white liquid salty-cheese like substance, i've never found anything that tastes like it since.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Uno, Hangman, politicians and ladders, goetia ect ect.

 

[BigBooper]

Texas Holdem. Candy Land. Pin the tail on the donkey. Nerf Russian Roulette. Darts.

 

[teezzy]

Fortnite or Fall Guys, rolling a hula hoop down the street with a stick

 

[ThatStupidLion]

chalk, tyedye, make comics/flipbooks, paint river rocks/shells ( can put googly eyes them to make "pet rocks") dominoes trail, guess who, battle ship, can set up "mini golf" holes around the house. write and decorate postcards to mail to each other(or their futureselves) at the next house, magnatiles/legos

 

[Ten_Fold]

Dark Souls remastered, if they beat the first boss give em $$

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Since our elementary school is virtual, we are doing a "learning pod" with a few other families so we can rotate childcare duties throughout the week. Tomorrow is our turn, and we'll have five 6-7-year-olds here.

Any ideas for fun games we can play during the down times? We're already going biking during "recess" time, so I need some indoor activities (we don't have a big backyard).

The ideas I have so far:

1. Jenga
2. Drawing on our sliding glass door with dry-erase markers
3. Maybe cornholl

Any ideas?

Connect 4.

Just draw the board on paper (similar to the tac toe) and remember it's 7 spaces across, 6 high.

 

[Alebrije]

U.S. elections.

 

[Foamy]

Show them how to pickpocket adults and set them lose at the nearest tourists spot.

 

[DESTROYA]

rolling a hula hoop down the street with a stick

What century are we in again ?

 

[Nehezir]

tempted to say monster hunter. sometimes kids really enjoy something crunchy to obsess over.

 

[V4skunk]

tempted to say monster hunter. sometimes kids really enjoy something crunchy to obsess over.

I think monster hunter is a bit too complex for a 6-7 year old...

 

[Nehezir]

I think monster hunter is a bit too complex for a 6-7 year old...

Maybe? Depends on the kid. But the idea of giving them something complex to chew on and broaden their horizons appeals to me.

I remember playing Uncharted Waters New Horizons when I was that age. that game was pretty complex for the time. I didn't understand everything but I did have a blast trying to.

 

[Keihart]

i would get stuck in a corner without a care in the world if they handed me a bucket of legos at that age. Some paper and pencils used to work too.

 

[Chiggs]

Bloodborne.

 

[teezzy]

I was around 6 or 7 when I first played Chrono Trigger with my cousin

You never forget those years

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Animal charades - pretty funny and entertaining in small doses.

5 seconds - you can be selective with the questions for young kids in games like this.

Sticker Chase - everyone gets a bunch of stickers and they have to stick them all on others (one at a time) without getting caught. If someone catches them they can to stick one of their stickers on instead. First to clear all their stickers wins.

Musical chairs - everyone knows this one, play music with a number of chairs to sit on when the music stops. Use one less chair than the number playing and remove a chair with each elimination of who didn't get to sit down.

Freeze - play music and stop randomly for kids to then freeze in place. Eliminate the slow freezers until one wins.

Balloons Up - Keep the balloon(s) in the air, use multiple balloons if you have a lot of kids playing.

The classic Simon Says - give instructions for the kids to do, they only do them if you say Simon Says in front of them.

Never underestimate the fun of hide'n'seek for young kids either.

 

[davepoobond]

four square