The Best Activities for 4-Year-Olds
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- Go on a scavenger hunt.
- Read or listen to books together.
- Play with a kitchen set.
- Encourage movement.
- Chores
- Simon Says
- Musical Chairs
- Card Games
- Video Games
- Educational Apps
- Create a Craft
- Have Them Help With Chores
- Get in the Kitchen and Bake Together
- Go Fishing Together
- Play a Board Game Together
- Coloring
- Play doctor
- Have a Dance Party
- Have Movie Night
- Favorite Cartoon Characters Dress up
- Blow Bubbles
- Go For a Walk in the Park
- Pick Fruit at An Orchard
- Visit a Botanical Garden
- Go Swimming
- Head to the Beach
- Go Fishing
- Visit a Trampoline Park
- Memorize a Poem Together
- Teach Your 4-Year-Old the Calendar
- Play with Slime or Play Dough
- Plant a Garden
- Hide and Seek
- Water Play
- Pretend Play
- Bake
- Build a Fort
- Go Camping
- Play With Legos
- Scavenger Hunt
- Puzzle Time
- Building Blocks
- Riddles and Jokes
- Teach Them Songs with Motions
- Memory Games – Get Creative!
- Use Your Senses Game
- Ride Bikes and/or Scooters
- Get Them Involved in Sports
- Have Them Help Care for a Pet
- Create an Obstacle Course
- Play Outdoor Games
- Play Board Games
- Play With Kinetic Sand
- Build something out of trash/recycling items
- Catch fireflies
- Climb a tree
- Collect leaves
- Draw on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk
- Go bird watching
- Have a catch
- Have a picnic
- Have a water balloon fight
- Jump on a trampoline
- Listen to your favorite songs
- Create life-size drawings of each other
- Pretend sword fight
- Plant seeds from something you’ve eaten
- Play I Spy
- Play tennis
- Put on skits
- Ride bikes
- Run through the sprinklers together
- Sit outside and look at the stars
- Swing on the swings together
- Visit a skate park together
- Wash your car together
- Build animal families out of homemade play-doh.
- Conduct kitchen science experiments.
- Display your kid’s artwork
- Create memory boxes
- Draw caricatures of
- Exercise
- Have a tea party
- Help them clean their room
- Help your kid fix a broken
- Send an email to a relative.
- Let your kid choose what to display in the place mentioned above.
- Let your kid style your hair.
- Let your kid teach you about something they know or do well.
- Listen to an audio CD together.
- Look through old photo albums together.
- Create a care package to send to a relative.
- Create a family tree.
- Create a meal together for someone else.
- Create a slideshow of your favorite digital photographs.
- Create a special breakfast “just because.”
- Create a “tent” out of sheets.
- Create bookmarks.
- Create ice cream floats for dessert.
- Create milkshakes or smoothies.
- Create necklaces out of colored pasta shapes and dental floss.
- Create pancakes in the shape of your kid’s initials.
- Create a silly song together.
- Create your own memory game out of family photographs.
- Create your own treasure map.
- Play 20 Questions.
- Play a video game
- Play school or office.
- Play store, restaurant, or ice cream stand.
- Pull out a box of old toys
- Race cars
- Roleplay how to handle a tough situation
- Scrapbook together
- Share a memory about how you handled conflict or stood up to a bully when you were a kid
- Style your kid’s hair
- Take turns reading to each other
- Teach your kid how to cook
- Teach your kid how to play solitaire or chess
- Teach one another some new dance moves
- Teach your kid a song you sang as a kid
- Teach your kid tricks
- Tell your kid three things you really like about them
- Visit a music store
- Visit a nursing home
- Visit the library
- Volunteer together
- Write a story
- Write positive letters to each other and then mail them
- Visit a free museum
- Write messages on the mirror