Frugal Indoor Kid’s Activities
June 23rd, 2008 | 
Author: Keep your kids busy indoors on cold or rainy days with the following inexpensive activities:
* Mister Grass Head
Materials Needed: nylon knee stocking, Grass Seeds, Potting Soil, Baby Food Jar, Wiggle Eyes or glass paint/markers
Using hosiery, place some grass seeds in the toe. The hosiery is the head and the excess will be placed in the baby food jar to soak up water. The toe of the hose is the head and the grass will look like hair as it grows. The baby food jar is the body. Add some potting soil in the end of the hosiery on top of the seeds. Make sure the hosiery of seeds and soil is bigger than the opening of the baby food jar. Tie a knot in the hosiery to keep the seeds and soil in. Completely soak the soil/seed ball. Place the hosiery in a baby food jar filled with water making sure the head is above the mouth of the jar. Decorate the jar to look like Mister Grass Head’s clothes and add a face onto the head.
*Shadow Drawing
Take brown grocery bags and tape together until you have enough paper to be the same size as your child. Have your child lie down on the paper bags and trace your child’s outline. Your child can then color her “shadow” drawing to look anyway she wants.
*Homemade Toys
Decorate a paper towel tube. Paper punch a hole about an inch from the end. Now tie a mason jar ring to a piece of string about one foot long. Attach and tie the loose end of the string through the hole in the cardboard tube. Hold the tube and flip the ring up and try to catch it onto the tube..
*Indoor Snowball Fight
Wad up newspaper balls and have a snowball war inside.
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October 21st, 2008 9:17 pm
LOL… I remember those things. I think I’ve seen the grass head made with a potato too. The moisture from the potatoe germinates the seeds?
Thanks for the good memories!
October 24th, 2008 4:18 am
Gee thanks. This is fun!
October 28th, 2008 3:55 pm
This is absolutely hilarious! I think I might have done this when I was a very small child. I will certainly pass this onto my sister, who has a 3 year old and a 5 year old. They’ll go nuts!
December 19th, 2008 2:16 pm
Mr. GrassHead and home made toys, we used to do them.
Drawing and finger painting can also be fun, although a bit messy.
January 12th, 2009 11:55 pm
Hmm..Mr. Grasshead sounds a lot like a chiapet, lol..
January 24th, 2009 5:07 pm
Yes…I enjoyed this post. Thanks to author.
January 24th, 2009 7:58 pm
Great tips on keeping our kids busy indoors on cold or rainy days..
March 3rd, 2009 6:15 pm
I like the shadow drawing. It would work great for making pictures of them on there wall for the rooms.
March 4th, 2009 10:28 am
Oh, keeping the children busy is a full time job. Thanks for these great ideas.
March 5th, 2009 9:07 pm
This is very fun
March 13th, 2009 6:12 pm
A fun thing to do is use a rubber band to hold tin foil over a flashlight. Poke holes in the tin foil. When it’s dark, turn the room/house lights off and put the flashlight on the ground and turn it on. You’ll look up at the ceiling to find a starry sky. My kids call it “camping.”
April 8th, 2009 6:21 pm
You will also find that their range is often much bigger than the boutiques are able to offer.. simply because of space issues.
April 20th, 2009 11:58 am
Thanks for this. some really great ideas here. should keep my kids occupied for a while
April 21st, 2009 5:22 pm
Great ideas will have to try some out when i get home.
April 21st, 2009 10:03 pm
the “indoor snowball fight” might get a little out of hand with my crew… but i love the other old-school ideas!
May 20th, 2009 9:55 am
Great post, lol
May 20th, 2009 11:50 am
Indoor shading is really enjoyed by my children.
May 31st, 2009 4:19 pm
Excellent post, and by the way, nice blog. Thanks for sharing.
June 5th, 2009 4:14 pm
Does anyone have any good actvities to do with kids when babysitting that everyone will enjoy… Paper bag puppets are fun and require scissors.
June 9th, 2009 9:12 am
The informations are so lovely and so usefull so thank you very much. Be sure i will use all of them keeping in my mind.Have a goog luck.
June 18th, 2009 8:28 am
Great design. I like it.
June 23rd, 2009 6:05 am
frugal is the way to go with very little money and tough economic times these days
July 7th, 2009 6:50 pm
Great ideas will have to try some out when i get home.
July 8th, 2009 3:33 pm
Simple but nice, at the same time this will make them more creative. Not to mention it will not cost much.
July 8th, 2009 9:55 pm
My kids would love this! THANKS!
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July 15th, 2009 7:02 pm
I especially like the newspaper snowball fight idea. Maybe after the fight is over, you can have some “educational” timeout, and actually read to each other the sections of the crumpled up newspaper. Educational bonus!
July 24th, 2009 8:54 pm
Thanks for the great ideas. Building a clubhouse out of pillows, blankets and sheets is a rainy day activity my kids enjoy. Another favorite is mask making. We usually cut up cereal boxes since the cardboard is thin, draw and color power ranger, iron man or ben 10 faces.
August 5th, 2009 6:45 pm
I used to love building forts…. by far the best. Flashlights for those are the best. Good work here.