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Posted: July 26 2011 at 9:39pm | IP Logged Quote Servant2theKing
If you have access to a wide roll of paper (like brown mailing wrap) use it for sidewalk chalk drawings or indoor hopscotch. Hieroglyphics or designs from the catacombs would be fun themes for chalk drawings!

Building indoor forts with tables or chairs and sheets or blankets ~ great places for endless reading or playtimes! To add to the fun you could make indoor s'mores using a the flame of a gas stove burner, or the microwave, to melt the marshmallows.

We keep a string white Christmas lights up year round and plug them in on dreary days, or whenever we want things to be a little more festive.

Blowing bubbles while taking a bubble bath would be lots of fun, especially if you combined it with a neat library book about bubbles or this http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/bubbles/internet_resources .html This is neat:
http://www.tomnoddy.com/popups/star.html

If the sun won't come to you, you could make your own sunshine; craft suns with paper plates and construction paper or gift wrap rays. Hang them with metallic ribbon or prisms in your windows to catch whatever light comes your way. We used a gold metallic gift bag to make 2-sided flames for Pentecost, which we strung from thread, along with prisms from a broken lamp ~ dangling from our dining area chandelier, the effect was surprisingly cheerful, even on the most dreary rainy days!   

Jodielyn's idea of the painter's tape for indoor hopscotch is so much better and safer ~ what was I thinking?! I just noticed, there's no emoticon for slapping one's forehead in dismay!

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Posted: July 26 2011 at 9:51pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
oh.. you can also do a non-slip hopscotch on hard floors or carpet with painter's tape.. it doesn't leave sticky behind.

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Posted: July 26 2011 at 10:11pm | IP Logged Quote Angie Mc
My 6yo is bouncing on a mattress in the hallway as I type, waiting for his big brothers to go in the pool with him.

I guess we're not neighbors anymore - rats. Happy you are happy in Alaska .

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My kids always love painting with shaving cream on the kitchen table.

Blowing up a room full of balloons can keep them occupied for hours. I recently found a balloon hand pump balloon for both water balloon and air balloons. They loved it since it made it easy for even the littlest to blow those little balloons up. It's this one, but I found it at CVS for under 10 bucks.

Check out local stores to see if they have any big cardboard boxes to give away. They can make forts, cars, trains, houses....

More masking tape on the floor....make roads around the house.

I just taught my little girl how to make friendship bracelets. That's all she has been doing for a couple of weeks.
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Everyone has given some very creative ideas!!
I also found that simply turning on some fans (ceiling fans to circulate the air) and up-beat music seems to lighten the mood and gets the kids into more of a creative mood. Might help to get those other wonderful ideas off to a easier start, too!

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