Ways to Play

Halloween’s over, so now it’s time to relax and unwind (and come down from that candy high).

That’s why we have very little planned this weekend. We might take a library trip and we’ll definitely spend some time outside.

What are you planning? Here are 10 fun ideas from my favorite kid activities bloggers to do this weekend.

1. Make homemade watercolors and do some painting with Happy Hooligans
2. Make glittery acorn necklaces with We-Made-That.com
3. Play in a farm sensory bin with The Chaos and the Clutter
4. Play sight word soccer with Coffee Cups and Crayons
5. Learn about Diwali, which falls on November 3 this year, and make colored-salt rangoli designs with Creative Family Fun
6. Make and dig for alphabet fossils with Playdough to Plato
7. Make a color wheel clock with Artchoo
8. Do some candy experiments with all that leftover Halloween candy with Teach Mama
9. Paint on texture and make some beautiful collages with NurtureStore
10. Make your own popsicle stick counting puzzles with Powerful Mothering

10 Ways to Play this Weekend is back after a long hiatus and I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve searched through my favorite blogs (and Pinterest too) to find 10 fun things to do with your kids this weekend. Have fun!

1. Do a spooky science experiment using Haunted Halloween Hands with Happy Hooligans
2. Paint with edible Kool-Aid paint with Sow Sprout Play
3. Make a family of pumpkin mummies with Hands On: As We Grow
4. Create a giant lacing spiderweb with Fun at Home With Kids
5. Make fun google eye hair clips to wear on Halloween with Totally the Bomb
6. Make easy Halloween bats with Creative Family Fun
7. Turn a cardboard box into a pretend play hair salon with Childhood 101
8. Make beautiful autumn leaf lanterns with Red Ted Art
9. Play Spider Letter Swat with JDaniel4’s Mom
10. Decorate a window with an autumn leaf collage with Inner Child Fun

1. Make an animal hand print alphabet with Red Ted Art
2. Create super cute lid animals with Toddler Approved
3. Cool off with some Raspberry White Chocolate Ice Pops with Creative Family Fun
4. Perform some experiments to learn about friction with Science Sparks
5. Play Color Golf with School Time Snippets
6. Fly giant paper airplanes with Fireflies and Mud Pies
7. Make beautiful stain glass name designs with Teach Kids Art
8. Paint with edible Jello finger paints with The Imagination Tree
9. Flip some sight word pancakes with Playdough to Plato
10. Find a fun new poetry book to read with The Pleasantest Thing

1. Do some water squirter math with Kitchen Counter Chronicles
2. Read a story from around the world with Kid World Citizen
3. Interview your grandparents using these free printable interview questions from The House of Hendrix
4. Draw on the floor with Hands On: How We Grow!
5. Make your own soap crayons to play with in the bath with Childhood 101
6. Work a 3-D word search with No Time for Flash Cards
7. Set up a simple lab to explore rock and minerals with An Everyday Story
8. Make frozen s’mores for a special treat with Reading Confetti
9. Draw a life-size whale with KC Edventures
10. Make a simple and cute firefly craft with There’s Just One Mommy

How are you going to play this weekend?

1. Play in a pretty rose petal sensory tub with NurtureStore
2. Draw with homemade glow-in-the-dark sidewalk chalk with Coffee Cups and Crayons
3. Play backyard Bananagrams with Constantly Lovestruck
4. Make fun superhero sock puppets with Seven Thirty Three
5. Play a dump truck counting game with Inspiration Laboratories
6. Pretend to be Michelangelo and create a masterpiece with Classic Play
7. Make fruit kabobs to share with Kids Activities Blog
8. Make a homemade skee ball game from a cardboard box with Frugal Fun for Boys
9. Learn left and right with a little fancy footwork with Childhood 101
10. Make your own paper plate tambourines with Creative Family Fun