Activities for 5 year olds

     You should never be bored with your five year old child. They are at such a fun age that you and he/she can do the same thing and they are able to do it by themselves, rather than wanting you to do the whole thing for them. Their imagination has increased a lot and can think of some clever things to do. They can keep you busy all day doing fun things with them.  But don’t feel bad if sometimes they just want to do things by themselves. That’s totally fine because they need to learn to have some alone time and learn to do things by themselves and not always having someone there with them. Some of the amazing and fun activities that you can do with them at this age are crafts, going on bike rides, cooking, games, etc.       

     Some of the fun crafts that you and your child can do are make a little stepping stone or rock and have them paint it whatever and however they want, you could also take little stones that they can place on it and make it fancier. Girls especially will try to think of everything that they can use to make it the prettiest thing that they could ever make.  The really nice part of doing something like this is that you will always have it and it can be used as a decoration for the house or for your landscape. Then you’ll always have something to remember that your child did when they were little. My mom had kept a lot of things that I did when I was little even a lot of things that I had accomplished in school. Another thing you can do if you have a girl, is to make bracelets, necklaces, jewelry, rings etc. You just need is to have string and beads and then they can make their own jewelry.  I loved to use some of the big beads o with the lettering on it and then just some of the prettier ones with the sparkly and different shapes. Also, there are kits that you can buy at the store that you can make jewelry with play dough. My cousin has one and I love using it. You can use any color and they will even mix together and make amazing looking jewelry that you can put on string and wear. You can do a lot of different fun crafts with your child at this age.

      You can do so many things with your child at this age besides some of the activities that I’ve listed for you. Just have a great time with them and enjoy this special time.They also love to cook with their parents. It doesn’t even matter if it’s cooking for super that night, cookies, fun art cooking. Just ask your child to help you cook and they will love to help. Especially like cookies that they can put M&M’s, chocolate chips etc. and decorate it all up and have fun. One thing that they love to do while making cookies is to roll the dough out or try to eat the dough. This isn’t a very good idea because it has raw eggs which may cause them to get a tummy ache. You can even go out of your way and do some fancy cooking, such as making cookies into an animal and use frosting to decorate it. Or even take cupcakes and let them decorate them however they want to. Just use your imagination and you can come up with some very clever ideas. Especially at this age they always thinking of something and they aren’t afraid to voice their opinion about it. Just remember that this is a special time in their life and they will remember the quality of time they spent with you and it’s important to enjoy every second of it.