| Most of us are acquainted with the usual babysitting | | | | narrative. Perhaps you could put on a puppet show, or |
| activities--hide and seek, Simon Says, I Spy, etc--and | | | | maybe you could help them to compose illustrated |
| despite the fact that such games are good fun, they're | | | | picture books in honor of their parents. Any old |
| not necessarily inspiring to a kid's intellect. If your | | | | notepad will do. Artwork activities: Children are |
| primary aim as a babysitter is to pass time until the | | | | accustomed to things like painting and drawing pictures, |
| children's parents get home, this may be okay. But if | | | | but they really enjoy to be taught new ways to make |
| you're most engaged in helping to enrich these kids' | | | | art. For instance, you can easily employ scissors and |
| lives, you might like to consider games which stimulate | | | | old magazines to create collages, or you can educate |
| their imaginations while helping them grow in beneficial | | | | them in how to make a comic strip. If you merely |
| ways. The following are just a few activities that will | | | | teach the kids how to do things such as this, young |
| help you to achieve this. Scavenger hunt: Scavenger | | | | children often think of some amazingly inventive |
| hunt is unquestionably one of the old standby | | | | artworks, and they will probably continue participating in |
| babysitting activities which have been played for a long | | | | such creative things even when you have left. Play |
| time, yet it also actually is among the more creative | | | | rock group: As every decent elementary school music |
| and stimulating ones. Create your scavenger hunt so | | | | teacher will tell you, any item may be an instrument. |
| that it demands creative thinking. For example, instead | | | | Tell the children to find instruments (and naturally, if |
| of making the list of things such as "purple shirt" or | | | | they happen to own actual instruments, that is great) |
| "brown leaf," use considerably more difficult stuff like | | | | and make a babysitting game out of making up music. |
| "a thing the dog loves" or "white object that makes | | | | Even if you are not really a music person yourself, all |
| noise." Story activities: It does not matter how exactly | | | | youngsters love to create noise, and now is the ideal |
| you do it, yet it is definitely a good strategy to use | | | | opportunity for them to begin teaching themselves |
| babysitter games which inspire kids to make use of | | | | about how to play music. It does not have to be Bach, |
| their creativeness. One of the best options is to | | | | but who knows? Maybe they'll have a talent for music. |
| engage in an activity which has them create a | | | | |