With many of us facing changes to our family’s normal daytime routines, we’re spending a lot more time at home than we ever expected. We tapped our Little Spoon mom crew to get creative with fun ways to keep your kids entertained at home.

• Have some fun in the kitchen with easy, kid-friendly recipes like no-bake cereal bars, dessert quesadillas, or homemade pizza.
• And then have a living room picnic!
• Make your own coloring book. Print your own designs and let your little artist get inspired. If your kids are a bit older, try Mandala color pages—they’re more complicated and will keep them occupied longer!
• Raid the cabinets for a science experiment. Remember the baking soda volcano?
• Hold your own LEGO Masters competition (this is another one that’s best for older kids).
• Dance! YouTube videos like KidzBop dance-along or Cosmic Kids Yoga to help get the wiggles out.
• Play a game of good, old-fashioned freeze dance!
• Have an alphabet or color hunt—hide cards with letters or colors around the house to find.
• Play “The Floor is Lava” with pillows scattered as “safe stones”.”
• Simon Says (Simon says ‘mom lie down’).
• Organize toys to create different play stations like at school. You can make a block station, art station, music station, puzzle station—it will make your child’s toys feel new.
• Do an at-home workout—your mini will want to join…just like every time you try to use the bathroom alone.
• Make homemade playdough.
• Play “Finish the drawing”—let your mini draw their own scribble on a sheet of paper and use your crayon to turn it into something and have them guess what it is.
• Listen to a Story Podcast. We love What If World, Story Spectacular, Story Time, Little Stories for Tiny People, and Be Calm on Ahway Island, to name a few.
• Play animal charades.
• Use painter’s tape to make an indoor hopscotch.
• Do a backyard scavenger hunt—make a list of things you can find in your backyard and do a scavenger hunt to find them all.
• Have a balance competition and see who can stand on one foot the longest.
• Put soapy water in a bin and make your own “car wash” sensory bin—bonus clean hands!
• Camp in your living room with child-sized tents, flashlights, and stove top s’mores.
• Throw a disco bath time! Put a handful of glow sticks and bubbles in the bath and turn the lights down.
• Make a matching game out of all the unmatched socks—put them in a pile and have your kids pair them.
• Try scavenger hunt bingo. Place letter and number cards on various items around the house. Make a card for each child, and write a small clue on each number you pull (“B5, I’m really good with milk at breakfast” for a box of cereal.).
• Make forts with sheets and blankets.
• Have a spa day with manis, pedis, and kid-friendly face masks.
• For older kids, download a movie-making app on your phone or computer and give them ideas for stop-motion films with dolls and toys. Or let them film a “documentary” about a day in their life.
• Reuse your Little Spoon containers and shipping materials for some recycled fun!
• Write letters to your friends and family to send out as fun surprises for loved ones.
• Take a free, virtual tour of some of the world’s most popular museums like the Uffizi in Florence or the Guggenheim in NYC!

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