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25 Silly Activities for Kids

With bills to pay, kids to usher around, and relationships to navigate, women tend to get incredibly busy carrying the invisible load of motherhood. Juggling all our daily responsibilities can morph us into all-business, all-the-time people. That attitude trickles down to our kids. There are times to be serious, but we should also build time into our weeks to let our hair down and have fun doing super silly things. Taking a break from being serious and simply embracing fun will give you a chance to be a kid again and show your children it’s OK to enjoy life.

Here are 25 silly activities for (you and) your kids.

  1. Blowing a bubble gum bubble bigger than your fist.
  2. Learn how to do a cartwheel or somersault.
  3. If you already know how to do a cartwheel, try doing five in a row!
  4. Say, “How much wood could a wood-chuck chuck if a wood-chuck could chuck wood” as many times as you can without getting your tongue twisted!
  5. Memorize three Knock-Knock jokes then tell them to a neighbor.
  6. Say the ABCs backward.
  7. Challenge each other to a cannonball contest in the pool.
  8. Try to make a basketball shot while blindfolded.
  9. Jump rope _____ (number of times) without messing up.
  10. Do fingerpaint portraits of each other with wild, exaggerated features.
  11. Play “pin the tail on the donkey”.
  12. At the park, swing from one end of the monkey bars to the other while making monkey sounds.
  13. Learn to whistle and see who can whistle the loudest.
  14. Go “bowling” using empty soda bottles as the pins.
  15. Play music using instruments made from items found around your house.
  16. Try to fit six marshmallows in your mouth. Once you have them packed in, say, “Chubby bunny!”
  17. Create a goofy board game.
  18. Use hair gel to make funny hair-dos.
  19. Dress up and act like famous people and see if your family can guess who you are.
  20. Measure how far you can throw a wadded up ball of paper.
  21. Try to pat your head and rub your tummy at the same time.
  22. Write funny poems about an off-the-wall subject, like the sun. Or, do Mad Libs!
  23. Have a tickle fight!
  24. Ball up socks and have an indoor “snowball” fight.
  25. Tie one hand to your waist with a scarf and see if you can get dressed or eat using only your free hand.

Need more ideas? Check out these fun activities for kids. Or these. Or even these.

What other ideas for silly fun can you do with your kids?

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