Fun Activities for Young Girls

Keeping young girls engaged and busy can be a challenge, especially if you want to avoid overscheduling the whole family. Educational, creative and playful at-home activities are the key to weekends, school vacations and afternoons everyone can enjoy. While plenty of free time is ideal for children, some planned ideas can save those days when boredom abounds. You can choose activities ahead of time based on her interests or use these as ways to introduce new options or hobbies.

  1. Arts and Crafts

    • A full range of art supplies is a tool every parent needs in his arsenal; however, just suggesting she draw or paint may not help the boredom blues. Consider packaging up supplies for specific art projects and adding some unusual supplies to the family craft box. Popsicle sticks or pipe cleaners, along with felt and fabric scraps, can be used to make dolls or creatures of all sorts. Recycle crayons with your kids and encourage them to create. Offer up dyed pasta for mosaics. New supplies and ideas can spark your little girl's creativity and keep her busy for hours.

    Get Building

    • Creative construction is a great indoor activity. Legos or other building blocks are one option. If she has a good collection, consider printing out new plans and directions for her (see Resources). You can also offer up an array of cardboard boxes, along with paint and paper. Boxes can create a town, a dollhouse, a castle or a store. Get involved to help her get started and help her plan something that works with things she loves. Perhaps she can build a stable for her ponies or a pet paradise for toy animals. You may soon find that she is busy with her box creation all day. The recycle box is also a great place for supplies to build a robot or pirate ship if that's more to her liking.

    Outdoor Games

    • Old fashioned favorites like tag and chase are still a good idea for the little girls in your life. Ball games of all sorts are still a favorite. You might also try coordinating outdoor games. Create a treasure hunt in the yard for one or more little girls or help them set up a tea party with dolls and toys outdoors. Offer up hula hoops and tunes from the 1950s or fairy wings and pixie dust for other ways to engage her imagination and keep her moving outside.

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