33 Inexpensive Yet Innovative Ideas That'll Ensure Your Kids Stay Busy While You Handle Other Things

Your child's education continues even after they leave the classroom. Another excellent learning environment for your child is your home.

Easy daily chores and activities provide children with opportunities to broaden their horizons. While ensuring they take steps toward their future, you can relish the time you spend with them. 

It's not ideal to work from home without childcare when your children are present, but it does happen. There could be several reasons why you still need to complete tasks with your children at home, such as when they are sick or on vacation.

You could have them watch their favorite cartoon, but that would only last so long, and you probably don't want them spending all day in front of a TV. Fun activities for your kids to do for more than eight hours a day are not easy to come up with.

Fortunately, some creative individuals on the internet have come up with a few inexpensive (and safe) entertaining ideas for kids that don't cost a lot. Don't break the bank by taking them to the movies, the pool, or the shopping center every day, even though those activities can be enjoyable.

Try a few of these low-cost yet fantastic ideas, and you just might find them enjoyable!

1. Make roads for toy cars by using colored tape on carpet

2. Chalk is one great way to play dress-up without the dolls

3. You can turn your driveway into a fun target game by using chalk and sponges

4. You can use tape to create some oversized, fun games

5. Exploding paint bags can be a messy, fun art project for your children

6. You can use plastic container lids, glue, and food coloring for a neat painting craft

7. You can cut up a tarp with scissors to make a cheap throwing game

8. Create a quiet, safe game of Jenga using cut-up sponges

9. You can use foil to make a big river in the backyard

10. You can make stomp paintings if you have extra bubble wrap

11. Tape a paper towel roll to the wall to make a simple game for your toddler

12. "Sew" through burlap using plastic needles to create fun designs

13. Go camping indoors and let your kids’ imaginations run wild

14. Balloon rockets teach a lesson, plus they are fun

15. Let kids practice their letters in this sugar writing tray

16. Let your kids experiment with water marbles

17. You can run some pipe cleaners through a colander

18. Create alien bubble science projects

19. Extract DNA from strawberries as a fun experiment

20. Make a mini bowling game with pencil erasers and marbles

21. Pretending the floor is lava can be turned into a fun, educational game

22. Make soap clouds by putting a bar of soap in the microwave

23. Balloon ping pong is a fun activity your kids can safely play indoors

24. Let kids crawl through a safe playground you created with yarn

25. Strands of painter’s tape can form a fun, sticky spiderweb

26. Go outside and let your kids make a rainbow bubblesnake from simple ingredients

27. Transform an old box into an indoor slide

28. Let the kids compete in a Popcorn Olympics

29. Create a giant DIY bubble wand

30. Fill balloons with Play-Doh for a fun new toy

31. Help kids create their own t-shirt designs with crayons and sandpaper

32. Cut a pool noodle in half to make a marble race track

33. Use pool noodles to create a backyard obstacle course

It might be difficult for any parent, older sibling, or babysitter to keep kids occupied during the hot summer months when they are at home. Although almost all of these suggestions call for some parental supervision, they should be enjoyable for everyone involved!

You should give them a try this time around—or at the very least, forward this article to other parents so they can!