ideas to make boring / routine things feel SUPER EXCITING

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, I applaud the creativity but a rave shower sounds like it would induce pediatric epilepsy. (Did you belong to a sorority by any chance?)

Glow sticks? are you familiar with halloween?

[Anonymous]

Picnic dinner! (Or lunch) Put a sheet down in the living room.

Also putting away laundry. I hand my kid I item I know he can put away, like underwear. I tell him to act like an elephant. He walks like an elephant and puts it away. While he’s doing that, I fold other items. When he come back, another underwear and another animal. Etc. at the end, I’ve done some creative play, some good gross motor play, and all my laundry is put away.

[Anonymous]

Pudding on cookie trays for finger paint
Peanut butter play dough
Frozen bananas or strawberries, rather than soft serve

[Anonymous]

An Easter Egg Hunt is fun anytime of the year. Extra benefit is it can be inside or outside. Ofcourse near Thanksgiving it is a Turkey Egg Hunt.

[Anonymous]

I bought 20 boxes of various muffin mixes from Target and each Friday they pick a flavor, get their aprons on, and bake.

I got tons of colorful cupcake papers that they love to put in the tins. Boxed muffins are easy; just the mix, eggs, water, and, oil. The kids talk about it all week and get to eat a mini muffin each morning.

We also do blind taste tests where they have to guess the food , and once per month we do mystery croissants where we bake random different crap in middle of pillsbury croissants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bought 20 boxes of various muffin mixes from Target and each Friday they pick a flavor, get their aprons on, and bake.

I got tons of colorful cupcake papers that they love to put in the tins. Boxed muffins are easy; just the mix, eggs, water, and, oil. The kids talk about it all week and get to eat a mini muffin each morning.

We also do blind taste tests where they have to guess the food , and once per month we do mystery croissants where we bake random different crap in middle of pillsbury croissants.

You can pretty much put anything in there right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bought 20 boxes of various muffin mixes from Target and each Friday they pick a flavor, get their aprons on, and bake.

I got tons of colorful cupcake papers that they love to put in the tins. Boxed muffins are easy; just the mix, eggs, water, and, oil. The kids talk about it all week and get to eat a mini muffin each morning.

We also do blind taste tests where they have to guess the food , and once per month we do mystery croissants where we bake random different crap in middle of pillsbury croissants.

You can pretty much put anything in there right?

The croissants? Yeah. Just wrap em up tight. We had some gummy bears leak out.