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[quote=Anonymous]Book on CD

Take a walk and/or nature scavenger hunt

Ride bikes

Color, paint, Playdoh (inc. Making playdoh) draw (get an Ed Emberly book from the library on how to make creatures from thumbprints...my kids loved doing this)

Your kids aren't too young to many games, including card games:  old maid, Ratuki, war, skipbo, etc.  try hullabaloo, twister, etc.

Water play (buckets, ice, ladles, cups, tongs, eye dropper, baster (eye dropper kind and kind that is a brush), etc on a porch or deck.  Kids love this.

Freeze mini toys inside a bowl with water, let them excavate them out with water and a paintbrush.  No chiseling

Play in a tub (bathing suits on if you want and toys)

Books, books, books

Dress up clothes

Puzzles

Lego sets

Science experiments

If, however, you are looking for an activity that allows them and to you veg for a period of time, not just relax, consider implementing daily quiet time where they can't talk to anyone for 45 minutes.  Mine would typically read, draw, do puzzles or lego sets during this time.

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