sick rainy day activities?

Seattle_JiLLn

Ben and I both have colds.  And now it's raining too.  What the heck should we do today?????  any ideas?  Craft projects we could do that would be fun and take more than 10 minutes?   WE ARE BORED.

babyaustin725

Do you have any baking you can do?  Tillman loves to help me make cookies and banana bread, really anything involving the hand mixer.

pinktulips

Paint a sunny day on the windows with craft paint or tempera paint.

Make some toast and then paint it with food coloring.

Get out some pasta and string necklaces. Great way to start talking about AB patterns (for example - round, square, round, square is AB, round, square, square is ABB).

Play dress up in Daddies clothes.

Take a bubblebath

Make some playdough...https://babyparenting.about.com/cs/activities/a/playdough.htm

Masking tape race tracks on the floor...https://homemadeimagination.blogspot.com/2008/05/masking-tape-race-track.html

asianbymarriage

Yes, I definitely second the baking thing. That always sounds like fun to me. Do you have any cookbooks for recipes you can do that might involve kneading?

Also, I go to sproutonline.com - they have print-out coloring sheets of a bunch of different characters from their TV shows - Barney, Sesame Street, whatever. If I sit and color w/DD, she'll do it for much longer than if she's by herself.

tfarabians

Make a fort with pillows and blankets? 

Seattle_JiLLn

Thanks guys.  I thinkw e'll bake some muffins after his nap.  So far this morning we've been lame.  We made up a game with checkers and throwing them in buckets down the hall, and then we played some games on the Bob the Builder website.  Then we just took a drive to the Post Office and to pick up lunch at Taco Time.   So now it's almost nap time.  The fort is probably a good idea too, That would mean we need to clean up the family room first though to have any room for a fort!