Do It Yourself Games & Activities

We'll be posting some fun games soon that you can do at home!

Make a shoebox theater!

Suggested age: Elementary school

Time: 25+ minutes

Materials:

• Shoebox (or a rectangular box of any kind)

• Scissors

• Paper

• Markers, crayons or colored pencils

• Popsicle sticks

• Glue

Instructions:

1. Gather all of your supplies!

2. With an adult, cut out off one face/side of the rectangular box (see image below)

3. Next, but out a large rectangle in another side of the rectangular box (see image below)

4. Using paper and your markers, crayons, or colored pencils, draw out a background for your mini-theatre!

5. Glue this background to the inside of your box, or your "theatre".

6. Also using paper with markers, crayons or colored pencils, draw out your characters, or "actors" in your theatre!

7. Using glue, attach these characters to the end of a popsicle stick.

8. Finally, put on plays in your mini-theatre. Enjoy!

Go bowling at home!

Suggested age: Pre-k+

Time: 20+ minutes

Materials:

• Toilet paper rolls, or cut up paper towel rolls

• Scissors (if you choose to cut up paper towel rolls)

• Paint

• Paint brushes

• Construction paper (optional)

• Glue (optional)

• Bouncy ball

Instructions:

1. Gather materials

2. Cut up paper towel rolls (optional, only if you do not have enough toilet paper rolls). Make sure all of the rolls are cut at the same height.

3. Paint whatever design you want on your rolls or "pins". They could be funny faces, animals, or just polka dots! Its is up to you.

4. After the paint dries, if you want to add designs with construction paper and glue, do that now.

5. Set up your "pins" (paper towel/toilet paper rolls) in a triangle formation.

6. Rolling your bouncy ball, try to knock down all of the pins!

Geometry with Marshmallows & Toothpicks!

Suggested age: Kindergarten+

Time: 10+ minutes

Materials:

• Toothpicks

• Marshmallows

Instructions

1. Get out your supplies

2. Attach marshmallows to the ends of toothpicks, and make shapes, like triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons!

3. Challenge yourself to make 3d shapes, like traingular pyramids, rectangular prisms, or cubes!