Fun Things to Do With a Kid on a Rainy Day

All children love to splash in puddles after rain. The main thing is to quickly change your baby’s shoes into rubber boots and a waterproof raincoat. But what to do if the boots are already small, new ones have not yet been bought, it is cool outside, and the rain has charged for the whole day? There are many educational activities that can captivate the baby without leaving home. It will be even better if you spend a rainy autumn day together and think in advance about what you will do with the children. There are hundreds of different interesting things to do at home, even if they seem very simple and ordinary, doing them with your children can be fun.

After preparing dinner, let your little one set the table, come up with a recipe for sandwiches, or decorate a salad for a family dinner. With the help of such a game, you can easily involve the child in a common cause and begin to instill in him household skills. With an older child, you can bake something together. Knead the shortbread dough and place it in a large and small bowl. Agree that everyone sculpts, decorates, and puts their cookies in the oven. And at dinner, tell me that your baby’s cookies turned out much tastier! Discuss with the kid that next time he comes up with a menu for a family dinner as a chef. With the approach of such a day, the baby will be looking forward to and anticipation of something very significant. With the help of such a game, it is easy to start laying the foundations of responsibility in your child.

Various games are an important part of a child’s life. With the help of games, the child develops and learns about the world around him. You probably have several board games at home such as Monopoly, chess, checkers, backgammon, and Scrabble. All these games develop logical thinking, mindfulness, and the ability to build a strategy and move step by step. During the games, a kid can develop the leadership, diplomatic, and analytical qualities necessary for a young participant to adapt himself to society.

If your kid paints everywhere, as soon as he has a pencil or felt-tip pen in his hands, it’s time to direct his talent in the right direction and get a coloring book. A child of middle school age can be offered to paint a picture by numbers. Such sets have everything for successful drawing: canvas, paints, and the plot itself. The painstaking work of painting by numbers will definitely captivate your child for several evenings. It is real magic to see how a faceless canvas comes to life and is filled with the energy of life.

Puzzles are an alternative to painting by numbers. It is worth keeping several sets on hand at home. When choosing puzzle sets, be sure to take into account the opinion of your baby. After all, a well-chosen plot that resonates with your child is a guarantee of success. It is better to collect puzzles together with the child. You can conditionally divide the canvas into 2 parts and arrange a competition who will collect his part faster. You can start acquaintance with puzzles at the age of a child from 3 years old. The number of elements in such sets for very small ones is up to six pieces. From the age of six, children are already quite quickly oriented in puzzles. As a rule, they can do this without anyone’s help and independently assemble puzzles of up to 160 elements. Puzzles develop logical and imaginative thinking, children’s attention, fine motor skills, mental activity increases, memory improvement, and perseverance is developed.

It is convenient to always have a ready-made set of games that you will collect in advance, and which can be used if you and your child have to be at home for some reason. Such a set can also help you out if you were late at work, and your husband, nanny, or girlfriend stayed with the child. Then you don’t have to think for a long time about what to do with your child – everything you need will always be at hand. What to put in such a set? Yes, anything: board games, puzzles, card games, checkers, dominoes, paints, colored paper, plasticine, coloring books, pencils, felt-tip pens, and crayons. And if you want to relax on such a day, you can make a list of films for family viewing in advance, buy popcorn, cook cocoa, bake a cake and sit with the whole family under soft blankets when it’s damp and cold outside.

Your child will not be capricious if your plans for a walk are upset because of the rain, because the house is warm and cozy and there is always something to do.