This quick activity idea comes from ‘Have Fun with Your Kids’ by Marilee LeBon.

You will need;

Marbles

Shoe Box

Markers (I heart sharpies)

1. Take your shoe box, and, on one of the longer sides cut out five doors of differing sizes.

2. Above each door give a points value, the smaller the door the higher the points value should be.

Playing the Game

1. Youngest player goes first (because that’s always what happens, right, pfff I was the eldest, not bitter….much)

2. Players take turns to roll a marble through the door, if a marble goes through the points value for that door is awarded.

3. Highest score wins (because it’s ok to have a winner !)

Photo by flickr user van Ort

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You will need;

Pencil/Pen

Paper

1. Draw a scribble onto paper. Get your partner to make a drawing out of that scribble, it could be an animal, a mode of transport, an object. Take turns of being the scribbler and then the drawer. Alternatively the parent makes the scribbles, and the kids spend hours doing the drawings (hours is perhaps wishful thinking!)

Photo by flickr user prettywar-stl