Thanks for sharing these! Great way to turn an unpleasant situation into a fun one! Thanks for reminding me to make the most of every situation. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Leave a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. What Parents Have to Say… There's always something new for us to discover, as well as old favorites.
I am so grateful to have activities handed to us Fun and easy ones that can be put together in a moment's notice! You're awesome Jamie and I appreciate you sharing your activities and ideas!! It is so easy to just put up the calendar, and glance at it for inspiration when we are in a funk. First, experts strongly advise against children under age 2 using devices with screens since there is some evidence it adversely impacts development and no evidence that it advances development.
Second, children who are constantly entertained by technology are missing out on opportunities to learn how to entertain themselves, develop communication skills, build sustained focus, and expand their interests. There are much more fruitful ways to spend these waiting moments instead. Be prepared with waiting activities. One of the best strategies is to have a bag of safe, age-appropriate toys for waiting occasions.
You should only allow the bag and its contents to be used during waiting times so it feels exciting and special. There is no need to spend a lot on bag items: pipe cleaners, decks of cards, toys that come as prizes with other purchases, uniquely colored crayons and paper, bubbles, play dough, or even mismatched toy pieces e.
Soon, children will look forward to waiting. Consider waiting time as a time of learning and fun. In addition to dreading waiting in lines, parents are often collectively bemoaning the lack of quality time they have with their children. At Bright Horizons, we call these prime times: routine experiences that offer unexpected, but meaningful opportunities for relationship building and learning. So, why not turn line time into fun and games with a little learning thrown in? If you are prepared, you can magically make waiting time much easier for most of the time.
Infant Waiting Activities. Waiting is not a skill infants can do well or should even be expected to do well. For times you cant avoid waiting with an infant, its great to have some ideas. Toddler Waiting Activities. Its unreasonable to expect toddlers to wait long periods of time or have consistent behavior. One day they may play quietly while waiting, the next day a two minute wait will seem like two hours.
Plan to be actively engaged with them during waiting times and use their natural curiosity to help. Preschool Waiting Activities. Preschool aged children can participate in more complex and cognitive activities while waiting, beyond the standard childrens menu and crayons given out at most restaurants.
School-age Waiting Activities. Older children have often developed their own strategies for dealing with waiting time, but too often it is through the use of electronics. Offer them a more meaningful alternative by engaging in a fun and educational activity together. With a new perspective on waiting time and some pre-planning, you can turn a twenty minute wait at any doctors office or restaurant into a fun experience with plenty of activities to try with your kids. Written by: Bright Horizons Education Team.
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Contact Us. See All Solutions. I wish I would have made this activity set sooner, but it comes in handy now for snow days, stuck-inside-days, sick days, school days off, on airplanes, car rides and waiting for oil changes, dr. Waiting is simply an unavoidable fact of life and understandably not our favorite thing to do, especially with kids in tow. The list of times we all have to wait is long. Waiting for periods of time with kids is as fun as listening to nails scratching on a chalkboard.
It can be downright unpleasant. Well… at least before you had this list of kid-approved waiting games to pass time.
For adults, waiting 10 minutes seems brief but to children, 10 minutes of sitting in a waiting room can feel like agonizing torture. Kids, they get fidgeting, start bouncing around impatiently like a chipmunk who was just fed 2lbs of sugar and unless you have some form of entertainment, time moves as slow as watching paint dry — for you and for them.
You might pull out a couple snacks which they eat in seconds flat. Then you dump your purse upside looking for something you may have missed the last two times you checked.
I started a list of fun games to pass time and help us all keep our sanity while we wait. Waiting games are great to help kids develop self-regulation , the means to which children regulate their behavior and emotions by learning to control their impulses. These activities help build self-control through periods of clear focus, discipline and brain-building activities.
Here are 18 kid-approved and wonderfully fun waiting games to pass the time. Holding a stopwatch, see how quick your kids can push the start and then the stop button and try to better their reaction time. It increases their confidence, helps them to remember a story in order, relate it to others, and stimulates their thinking! Then others try to guess what the object is and the one who guesses it takes the next turn. Say what the color it is. Children guess what they think it may be. Winner is the next leader.
The group asks yes and no questions. Questions are those such as the board game , Guess Who? Is the person a boy? Does he have brown hair? Winner is next leader. When youth line up, have them focus on the challenge… Who can solve it? Also near the line up area put up a Graffiti Wall or Question Wall. The kids can write on it as they wait.
Smith can read my mind…Would you like to see her do it? Correct number guess is the next leader. It often will change the behavior.
The object is for students to figure out the rule you are using to sort them into groups. When the youth guess they are all wearing blue—call out another similarity—such as all in 5th grade or all having brown hair, etc. Reverse the order the next time so that students who were called on last will be called on first the next day. If someone makes a mistake such as calling out a number that is higher than the number in the group—calls out their own number—or delays, they must move to the end of the line.
The goal is to be at the head of the line. Nobody is ever out and there is always the chance of moving up! Can your group guess what the person is counting? As a variation, name an object and challenge the group to count as many as they can find in one minute. Each person is to name something that belongs to that group. Challenge group to work in A to Z order: ant, bee, cow.
Have each person trace a simple shape O, X, 1 — on the back of the person standing in front of them. Can each person guess what was drawn? Also you can draw your own version of a funny face. The person being drawn on- visually imitates the expression drawn on his or her back—and draws a silly face on the next person.
How accurate are the faces to those drawn on the back? You have to think fast for this game. Everyone sits facing the leader. The chosen player must come up with the name of an animal that fits the category before the leader counts to ten.
No repeating! The game continues until only one player remains. Brains crave variety and incorporating activities such as this, will certainly go towards some cognitive variety! As written above, it could be the puzzle, a word definition, riddle, trick question, or quote.
Great for all school ages to high school! By the end of the day—discuss guesses and answers. A board by bshelby Image by KidActivities. This can be done as a group game, individual or team play. Depending on how you play this-points can be added or subtracted.
The most points of course going to the individual or team who correctly guesses with the least amount of puzzle pieces removed! Players lay on the floor in any position they choose. Make sure each player has enough space as NOT to touch each other. When kids are ready- count to three to signal that the game has begun.
Have minutes to kill? Have Kids…. Draw their shoe. Draw their lunch. Draw their teacher. Draw a friend. Draw their hand holding something. Draw a small object big. Draw a car. Draw a dream. Draw a nightmare. Draw a leaf. Draw themself…. Any nose and spoon will do. Breathe heavily on the spoon, or lick it yuck! Immediately after breathing on or licking the spoon, place it on your nose so that it is up high, but not too high.
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