Top Ten 5 minute Boredom Busters




 Since the summer holiday were coming up I thought that for my ten things this month I would provide you with ten 5 minute boredom busters. If you’re looking for something longer why not check out my previous post of ten free things 10 Free Family Things



1 -  Cress Shapes.
One for the younger members of the family -  
Put about ten sheets of kitchen roll on top of each other and soak them on a plate.
Place some cutters on the sheets and sprinkle inside the cutters with cress or mustard seeds.
Carefully lift up shapes and water the towel (not the seeds) every day and in a couple of days you should have some lovely cressy shapes.
2 - Food Games.
Place a selection of food on to a tray and blindfold your kids.
See if they can guess the flavours
3 – Make a mud pie.
Grab a spoon and some pots and go create – maybe a biscuit for the best looking pie – mine using daisys to decorate but let your imagination run riot!  


4 – Crayon muffins.
Great if you lots of bits of broken wax crayons as in my house!
Pre heat over to about 150
Pop some liners into a muffin tray.
Take the paper liners off the crayons and pop them into the cases.
Chuck in the oven and immediately turn it off.
The wax should then melt as the oven cools!
5 – Make some salt dough.
SALT DOUGH RECIPE:
2 cups of Plain Flour
1 cup of table salt
1 cup of water
OPTIONAL
1 tablespoon of vegetable oil (makes it a little easier to knead)
1 tablespoon of wallpaper paste (gives the mixture more elasticity)
1 tablespoon of lemon juice (makes the finished product harder

You can then use things like a sieve to make hair or leaves to leave a pattern. Leave in the air to dry and paint them when completely dry!
6 – Tray game.
Ok i did get this from Charlie & Lola but it is a good game.
Pop a load of objects (clothes pegs, shoe, spoon etc) on to a tray. Let them look at the train for a minute then see who can remember the most.
 7 – Marzipan animals.
Put a block of marzipan into a mixing bowl and add a drop or two of your favourite food colouring and roll it round till marzipan is coloured.
Roll into different size balls and pinch together to make different animals!
8 – Make some sparkly beads.
Normally one for the girls but with the right colours the boys love it to!
Get some sticky back plastic and cut it as long a drinking straw and width should be slightly longer than your middle finger.
Peel the backing off (place sticky side up) and place the straw at the bottom of it.   
Chuck glitter, tinsel, tissue paper etc all over it (leaving about about 1.5cm at the top)
Roll up straw over the glittery mess and seal with the unmarked bit.
Cut up into little tubes and you have some lovely beads to string or play with.
9 – Water fun.
Place a towel on kitchen floor or outside and pop out on it a range of bowls and spoons and objects. Measuring jugs etc etc. See what floats and how much water you fit into different objects.
If outside chuck a couple of drops of food colouring into to make coloured water.
10 – Worm collecting.
If like it has been the past week raining nonstop chuck on your willies grab a bucket and spade and go and collect some fat wiggly worms!

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