We’ve curated a bunch of super fun ideas for your child to engage with every day over the next five days! Whenever you want to spend quality time with your child, you can head straight to this 5-Day Activity Kit! From paper craft to magic trick, your child will explore, recycle, trigger curiosity and utilise his/her creative skills to the fullest! So grab your scissors, colour papers and old cardboard boxes, and get ready for fun family time!
DAY ONE
4-Step Geometric Giraffe
The jungle drums are beating! How about starting the first day of the exclusive engagement series by transporting the tallest living terrestrial animal from the African jungles to your living room? All it takes is 4 simple steps! Are you ready to create conical giraffes?
Parental Involvement: Medium
Duration: 10 minutes
Skills Acquired: Creativity, Fine Motor, Coordination
Materials:
- Yellow and brown coloured paper
- A pair of scissors
- Sketch pen
- Glue
Instructions:
- Roll and glue yellow paper into a cone
- Tear out square brown pieces
- Stick them as patterns
- Draw and cut the Giraffe’s face
Make different kinds of geometric giraffes and prop them up on your animal corner!
DAY TWO
Antique Suitcase
It’s that time of the year when everybody packs their bags and escapes to places with higher altitudes and lesser humidity! To celebrate the holiday spirit, how about getting your kids involved in matchbox art and create a miniature suitcase by recycling old matchboxes? Sounds fun? Get ready for matchbox art mini suitcase!
Parental Involvement: High
Duration: 20 minutes
Skills Acquired: Thinking, Creativity, Fine Motor
Materials:
- Matchbox
- Coloured paper
- A pair of scissors
- Glue
- Sketch pen
Instructions:
- Remove the matchbox cover and stick brown paper over it.
- Cut thin strips of light brown paper and stick them on the sides.
- Cut a small strip with pointed ends for the handle and stick it on top.
- Cut four small semi-circles and stick them on the edges of the suitcase.
- Add two strips for the upper and lower ends of the matchbox and insert it into the cover.
Bon voyage!
DAY THREE
Magic Wallet
Is your child too young to study at Hogwarts? Then we have a secret trick that will make up for it! It’s always good to keep a few tricks up your sleeve, don’t you think? (or even a bunny rabbit in a hat!). And isn’t April 1st the perfect day to fool someone? Here’s a magic wallet trick where money appears, disappears, and reappears magically- at your calling! Pssst… No wands required!
Parental Involvement: Medium
Duration: 10 minutes
Skills Acquired: Cognitive, Logical Reasoning, Thinking
Materials:
- Coloured paper
- Small cardboard pieces
- A pair of scissors
- Tape
- Currency notes
Instructions:
- Take two cardboard pieces of same colour and size.
- Cut four strips of coloured paper in the same length.
- Place two strips as a cross on a cardboard piece.
- Place the second cardboard piece at the end of the cross.
- Tape the strip ends to the cardboard piece.
- Flip the cardboard piece and stick two strips on either side.
- Fold the ends on one side and stick it.
- Slide the other ends below the other cardboard piece and stick it.
- Slide a rupee note into the strip and close the wallet.
- Flip it open from the other side! Has the note shifted sides? How did that happen?
Abracadabra!
Wasn’t that a an interesting activity? Was your child able to decipher why it happened?
DAY FOUR
Toy Fighter Plane
Can you make a toy using your collection of unusable (yet safe for reuse) items like clothespins (wooden or plastic clips for clothes), ice cream sticks, and erasers? Why, yes! This ice cream stick craft toy fighter plane works perfect!
Here’s a fun ice cream stick craft toy idea for your child to give a try. Also, it’s about introducing your child to the idea of going green! Doing this activity, your child explores his/her creativity apart from engaging the fine motor and balancing skills.
Parental Involvement: High
Duration: 20 minutes
Skills Acquired: Imagination, Thinking, Fine Motor
Materials:
- Ice cream sticks – 4
- Clothespin – 1
- Poster colours
- Eraser
- Paint brush
- Glue
Instructions:
- Paint 4 ice cream sticks. Leave them aside to dry.
- Paint the clothespin. Let it dry.
- To make the plane’s propeller, break an ice cream stick into three pieces and join two end pieces using some glue/tape.
- Cut a tiny piece of the erase. Leave it aside to dry.
- Glue the ice cream sticks to the clothespin
- Glue the eraser to the ice cream stick to complete propeller setup.
- Stick the propeller on the clothespin. The Toy Fighter Plane is ready!
Wasn’t that fun?
DAY FIVE
Foosball
Bring an entire football ground into your living room with this waste material craft game! An exciting indoor game, Foosball will keep your kid at the edge of his/her seat all through the match! Set up an Ultimate Foosball Championship and enjoy quality family time!
Parental Involvement: High
Duration: 25 minutes
Skills Acquired: Coordination, Play, Creativity
Materials:
- Cardboard box
- Long Straws/sticks
- Clothespins – 10 pins – 5 green, 5 red
- Paper Cutter (parental guidance needed)
- Pen
- Ball
Instructions:
- Make six equally spaced markings on either side of the box.
- Punch holes and insert straws through them.
- Alternate the straws with green and red clothespins.
- Make small goal posts on either ends.
- Drop the ball inside and let the fun begin!
How To Play Foosball:
- The match is between two teams—green vs red.
- The clothespins represent the players from each team.
- The objective of the game is to score a goal through the opposing team’s goalpost, just like football!
- Each team has to defend its goal post. .
Ready, Set, Game On!
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