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JUST FOR FUN

  
Oh boy, my favorite category! Aids to having fun, whether alone or in a group, child or adult. Here are some ideas to touch off others (some found in Recipes/Ideas - single asterisks; double asterisks in Instructions)...
  
  • Fabric play tipi or card-table-covering circus tent
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  • Jigsaw puzzles (great critical thinking engenderers for young and old alike)
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  • Board/etc. games (how about a patchwork-quilted chess board?)
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  • Games books (write one, like I did)
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  • A compilation of your favorite family jokes through the generations (ask everyone to contribute)
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  • Princess/prince/superhero capes
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  • Confetti eggs (to bash onto heads in glee)**
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  • Piñatas!**
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  • Bike handle streamers
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  • Whirling pinwheels**
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  • An ice cream scoop, for the toddlers to take to the beach - a great sand-castle building tool!
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  • A sandbox
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  • Swings
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  • Miscellaneous blocks of wood for a child to build with
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  • Rocking horses (and other critters)
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  • Puzzle blocks made from 6 postcards cut into 6 squares each and glued onto small wooden blocks
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  • Party decoration kit or party supplies
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  • Costumes, or ideas for costumes (a tip: take the stuffing out of a giant stuffed toy, and it becomes a costume)
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  • Animal noses!
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  • Masks
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  • Doll house, doll furniture (, dolls)
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  • Unstuffed animal puppet - remove all or most of the stuffing from the back of a stuffed toy animal, so you can fit your hand into it to animate it (maybe sew in a glove?)
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  • Glove finger puppets - create an animal or human face/head at the end of each finger of a large fabric glove (pinch it off and stuff with batting or dryer lint; embroider or paint on features, sew on felt ears, etc. - a great gift for a child, or a child caretaker)
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  • Marionettes
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  • A puppet stage
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  • A ventriloquist dummy?
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  • A necktie serpent - stuff a necktie, add eyes and felt forked tongue... easy!
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  • Funny books
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  • Soap bubbles and bubble-maker/s
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  • Cookie cutters
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  • Family photo calendars (but use the funny photos! - and write in family birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, etc.)
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  • Kaleidoscopes, Slinkys, gyroscopes
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  • Funny photo albums (maybe with absurd captions; create a journal of a phony trip?)
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  • Play-dough*
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  • Paints*
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  • Finger paints, or face paints (see under "Paints")*
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  • Silly putty stuff*
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  • Homemade sidewalk chalk*

  • Crayon scribble cookies**
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  • Iced Christmas wreath cookies strung with a ribbon/bow to hang on the Christmas tree (and be eaten on Christmas morning)
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  • Bicycle decorations
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  • Stilts
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  • Homemade coloring books (e.g., with photocopied photos - or tracings therefrom - of pictures from the past year?)
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  • "Melting Snowmen" (flat round rocks painted white - with glued-on tiny hat, stick arms, and carrot nose)
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  • "Melted Snowmen" (a clear jar 1/3 full of water, with a little plastic hat, a tiny carrot, bits of "coal", etc.) - er, or "Hot Flash Snowmen"?
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  • Catnip for the cat (entertainment for everybody)
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  • Cat-toy gloves (sew on l-o-o-o-ng fingers, with little balls and/or bells at the ends to tease the kitty with - and one filled with catnip?)
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  • A jingly red dog collar for Christmas
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  • Carrots for the yard... "for the reindeer"  

  

 



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