Put on your thinking caps and see if you can solve the riddles to break free from the virtual escape rooms…without even leaving your house. If you can’t make it to an in-person escape room, there are plenty of online virtual escape rooms. Here are more than 40 board and card games our readers recommend for family fun! Break out of an online escape room See if you can set a record for how long you can play Monopoly! If not, just reuse the ones you may have lying around the house. If you’re able to get out, thrift stores often have super cheap puzzles and games. You can also take out lunch bags and let the kids draw or glue funny noddle faces on them. You can also paint or dye the pasta if you want to make it more colorful. Pull out any pasta with a hole in the middle (macaroni, tube, ziti) and string it on pipe cleaners or string to make bracelets and necklaces. Let your kids go to town coloring all over your leftover Amazon boxes. No coloring books? Plain paper is great, and there’s something magical about a cardboard box. Break out your adult coloring books while you’re at it. Grab all the broken crayons and coloring books you have lying around, and have a little art party. You can start your garden indoors! Break out the coloring books Or, grab a gardening book for kids and you’re ready to go. Then around April, get them in the ground. If it’s cold get some potting soil and seeds and keep the pots indoors until the weather warms up, then put them near a sunny spot inside. So buy some seeds or you can get some from vegetables or fruits you already have handy and start planting. Starting a garden, whether a little one indoors or something in a larger space outside, is a fun way to get some fresh air and build responsibility for cultivating and caring for plants. Gather any and all supplies you can find and see who can build the tallest tower in your living room. (Aluminum foil makes awesome boats.) Build a Tower Let the kids play with small animal figures, pebbles, or anything else you can rummage up that’s waterproof. Lay out a towel and a long container or several small containers with a little bit of water in them. If you have it, cardstock works best! Indoor Water Play Print some free paper doll patterns out and have fun cutting and dressing the dolls. You can find classic and modern versions of paper dolls online. It’s a good opportunity for kids to be creative and thoughtful in their writing and practice while out of school. Remember those olden days of handwriting a letter, putting it in an envelope with a stamp and physically sending it to someone? How about opening a handwritten letter to you? It’s a nice feeling! We suggest breaking out actual paper and pens and writing a letter – or for the little kids, they can draw or color a picture – for a family member, for someone serving in the military overseas ( Operation Gratitude can help with that), for someone in a nursing home here in the Upstate ( here’s a list to start with), to local police, or anyone else you think would love to get a sweet letter. Write letters or draw pictures for others
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