Need help coming up with ways to keep your younger children occupied on those cold and rainy days?
Here are 6 things that we like to do here behind the scenes at Make Believe Photography to help keep our sanity in order while we arent working away creating memories for other beautiful people

1: Build a magical fort / cubby house – this can be made out of blanekts and pillows either under your kitchen dining table or chairs or under the couch cushions, you can add lights, books, teddies / toys, the kids can sleep and play in it and it can be their own little fun hideaway.

2: Make homemade playdough and make a “Playdough bakery” – All you need is 2 cups of all purpose (plain flour) 3/4 to 1 cup of fine table salt, 4 teaspoons cream of tartar, 2 tablespoons of vegtable oil (coconut or olive oil work too), 2 cups of lukewarm or boiling water and food colouring to make the playdough. Then just use anything you have to cut different shapes out like cookie cutters, rolling pins, cupcake cases or just anything you have to make cute little non edible deserts for the kids to “sell them at their bakery”. This creates hours of fun!

3: Indoor obsitcal courses – Create a course for them to conquor and maybe even timing them seeing if they can beat their record each time using couch cushions to jump over or onto, tunnles using blankets and chairs and tape for lines or stepping stones, this creates fun while they also are burning off all that cooped up energy 😉

4. Animal rescue / wash – Get a shallow tub with warm water or even use the bathub, add animals / toys and add lots of bubbly soap, brushes, sponges & towels. Get the kids to make sure each animal / toy gets a good wash and rescue!

5. Giant art masterpiece – Tape lots of butchers paper or any paper you have on hand to the floor and let them paint, draw, stamp and create. You can even get kid friendly scissor and use old magazines / newspapers and see what they can come up with! (Using washable paint and markers makes cleaning up much easier)

6. Pretend shop or cafe owner – Set up a little stall with pretend money, add some food, containers and a pretend cash register for your kids to sell and interact with you, even getting the kids to help you by creating the stall out of a cardboard box or paper will occupy them for long enough to atleast finish that luke-warm coffee that you can’t stop thinking about

If you are needing more ideas, tips and tricks please let us know and we will post more blogs about fun indoor and outdoor activities!