Play ideas
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The painting that disappears
Water on paving shows up dark, then dries back to nothing.
Two children, one afternoon
They do not have to want the same thing at the same time.
When the child becomes the sound designer
Same book, twentieth reading. Give them the sound effects.
Four quiet things for when everyone has had enough noise
Some days end loud. These are for the twenty minutes after.
Four jobs they can actually do while you cook
They don't want an activity. They want to be where you are.
How to make one idea smaller, quieter or more active
One activity, three dials. That covers most afternoons.
One cardboard box, four afternoons
The box is reliably better than whatever came in it.
What to do when the activity flops halfway through
A flop is usually a fixable thing, not a finished thing.
One sheet of paper: four things to do with it
Four afternoons out of one sheet of paper.
You're allowed to stop early
Four minutes and a wandering child is not a failure. It might just be enough.
Five minutes, nothing to carry: games for the waiting bits of the day
The hardest minutes aren't the busy ones. They're the waiting ones.
When your child has too much energy and nowhere to put it
The energy has to go somewhere. These four activities give it a place to land.
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