What to do on a Rainy Day!
6-8's
and 9-12's
Materials:
-roll of toilet paper
Instructions:
Have the children and parents sit in a circle. Go around the circle with a roll of toilet paper and ask each person how many sheets of toilet paper they want. Do not tell them what it is for! Give a minimum and maximum number that they can choose. For example between 2 and 20. Once everyone has chosen each person must tell the group a number of things about themselves, including their name. They must tell the group the same number of things about themselves as the number of sheets of toilet paper they took. One thing must be their name.
2. Activity: Bingo
Materials:
-Bingo cards (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/009003/f2/009003-1000.09f-e.pdf)
-Box to draw from
-Prize
3. Game: Indoor basketball
Material:
-Tape to make marks
-crumpled papers
-basket or box to hang
-paint friendly tape
Instructions
1.Tape lines on the floor to mark distances from the waste basket.
2.Have your child "scrunch" up the paper for balls while you tape out the floor.
3.Start shooting "hoops". Begin at the easiest tape line and work your way back
4.Activity: Paper air-plane flying contest
Materials:
-Paper
-Markers
-Instructions
Instructions:
Let the kids choose an air-plane pattern and paper. They can then decorate their planes. When they are all finished, they can line up and see whose plane flies the farthest.
5. Make a rainy-day-die
Materials: die outline (without the dots)
Paper
Scissors
Markers
Glue
Instructions:
Give each child a paper with the die outlined on it, and give them a list of things to do on a rainy day (like building a furniture fort, baking, drawing a picture, making somebody a card, etc). On each of the six die faces they can write or draw a picture of one of the activities. They can decorate their die, then cut it out and glue it together. When it is raining, they can toss the die to pick an activity.
