Crafts and Activities
Here are 10 quiet activities that are engrossing enough to keep even the rowdiest kids peaceful for awhile:
1. Painting - The self-enclosed sets with the paints and the pictures are the easiest to manage and relatively inexpensive.
2. Drawing - Magnadoodles rule my family's world. Enough said.
3. Puppet Shows - Sock puppets behind the couch are a great way to give the kids a chance to put on a performance or for you to show off your puppet Joan Jett routine.
4. Edwina Scissorhands - Give your kids some kid-scissors and paper and ask them to cut out shapes or animals to decorate and then glue onto some posterboard.
5. Library - In this game, we play that one of the girls is a librarian and the rest of us check out books and then have circle time while she reads to us in her sing-song voice. It's incredibly relaxing. Read more from "10 Quiet and Creative Activities for Kids"
