Hello Everyone! To hopefully ease some anxiety and boredom many families are experiencing at home, we wanted to provide y’all with a few different games you could play as a family. These games use common household items and can be modified in many ways to fit specific family needs.

Defying Gravity

Blow up one or more balloons. Have your child try to keep the balloon(s) in the air for one minute. Make the activity harder by increasing the number of balloons, or by only letting the child use a specific body part to keep the balloon up. To make it a bit easier, use only one balloon and let the child hit the balloon in any way.

Dice Balance

Grab dice from board games or other activities around the house. Also locate a popsicle stick or a wooden spoon. Have a competition to see how many dice you can stack on the stick/spoon in one minute.

Apple Stack

Stack as many apples as you can on top of each other in one minute. IF you don’t have apples, try other fruit and see what happens.

Penny Tower

How many pennies (or other coins) can you stack in a tower in one minute? Depending on your children’s abilities, allow them to use one or both hands when stacking.

Go Fish (or Marshmallows)

Use a straw and two plates to complete this activity. Put a bunch of goldfish or marshmallows or another small snack item on one plate. Give children a straw and see how many fish they can move from one plate to the other.