Quick Ten Minute Activities

• Regular Balloons –  Hit it back and forth, but don’t let it hit the floor. You can also count how many times you hit it before it falls to the floor.   For a challenge, hold hands and don't let go, but don't let it hit the floor.
• Card games
• Board games
• Books – Parents read to children or the family can read a book together.
• Take turns blowing bubbles with one person blowing bubbles and the other trying to catch them.
• Cut pictures out of magazines and make your own book.
• Drawing
• Punch Ball Balloons – Remove the punch string handle and use as a big balloon.  Hit it back and forth, but don’t let it hit the floor. You can also count how many times you hit it before it falls to the floor.
• Games such as pool, tennis, shooting hoops, air hockey, etc.
• Go to battle with soft sponge ball play guns.  You won’t believe how hard you laugh!
• Buy cookie dough – Pull the dough apart and put it on the pan.  Bake and have fun eating it.  You can even dip the cookies in milk.
• Make paper airplanes and then fly them around the house.
• Make snowflakes out of white paper.
• Swing
• Draw or play games with sidewalk chalk.
• Have a squirt gun battle.
• Spray your children with the hose while they run around the yard.
• Tickle balloon or basketball – While playing with the balloon or basketball, tickle your opponent every time they lift their arms.
• Make things out of clay or play dough
• Bug walk (look for different bugs)
  
• Bird walk (look for different birds - you could even use an app to make bird sounds to call the birds)
  
• Nature walk - look for leaves and things
  
• Bike ride
  
• Sorting (kids love to sort all different kinds of things - junk, nature things, etc.)