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[quote=Anonymous]You need a bounce house. Seriously. We move furniture and put it in our family room, but I've seen others use it in the yard.

Do you have a yard you could give them foam battle axes (my 2 and 4 year old love them) or small Nerf guns?

Another clear winner was an indoor "obstacle course" for my kids. We did: jumping, leap frog, somersaults, jumping jacks, crawling and rolling. Kids did it so many times they were sweaty and exhausted.

Make nature walks more interactive. Give kids contact paper or double sided tape and a piece of paper. They have to find "treasures" (seeds, leaves, dandelions, trash) and stick them on as you walk along. Another hit was giving them a plastic shopping bag and filling it with small things along the way like acorns, pine cones and leaves.

I have a boy and a girl and I realize the girl sits SO well and loves art projects. But slowly we're training my son. He now has a 20 min limit on art projects, which is progress. Today they made pine cone, peanut butter and bird seed feeders. Yesterday it was fruit loop necklaces (kids liked this because they got to eat fruit loops afterwards which they don't get to do) after we went over the colors and counted them. Anything messy gets done naked on a drop cloth or in the bathtub. I have no patience for messes like that inside my house which require more work for me...[/quote]

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