Cooking and Food
When indoors, everyone flocks to the kitchen, so why not make something yummy?
68. CRUDITE: It's simple, but it works! Younger kids can wash and dry apples, oranges, peppers, cucumbers, and carrots. Older kids can peel and slice.
69. FRUIT KEBABS: Everything tastes better on a stick.
70. EXTREME GRANOLA: Sweet but healthy homemade granola is a treat for breakfast or makes a delicious topping for ice cream.
71. CUCUMBER CROCODILE: Create a friendly holder for healthy snacks.
72. GUACAMOLE: Let your kids mash and mix for a healthy guacamole that you can serve for dinner.
No-Bake Desserts
Make delicious sweets with the kids, without even turning on the oven.
73. CHOCOLATE FRIDGE CAKE: Annabel Karmel's chocolate fridge cake is a divine concoction of chocolate, dried fruit, and Rice Krispies.
74. OATMEAL COOKIES: If you're chocolate-averse (poor you), then try these oatmeal cookies.
75. ICE CREAM CAKE: For ice cream lovers, there's the cookies-and-cream ice cream cake.
76. FUDGE: Calling all chocoholics! This fudge recipe from Martha Stewart is so easy that kids can do most of it on their own.
77. FRUIT KEBABS: To kids, everything tastes better on a stick. These fruit skewers are for inspiration, but you can use any fruit you like (or have on hand)!
78. TEATIME: Midafternoon calls for a proper tea (or perhaps a cocktail...). You can go all out for a real tea party with cucumber sandwiches, chocolate-dipped strawberries, and some iced herbal tea for the kiddies, or just do a pretend party and invite all the teddy bears.
79. RUN A RESTAURANT: Make a pretend restaurant complete with a restaurant sign, menus, order sheets, and checks. If you have lots of people, assign jobs: cook, maitre d', waiter, customer, cashier, etc. Be sure to leave a tip!
80. PICNIC: You may be trapped indoors, but who says you can't picnic in your living room. Watch out for ants!
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