Lockdown his well and truly on us here in Victoria, which means that we’re all stuck inside for large amounts of time.

When I was working full time, we would have days where rain would keep us inside or it was too hot to go out and we’d have to make do with just being inside. Those days it was really easy to go stir crazy. No matter how many books you read, pictures you draw, board games you play, you’re always going to have those moments where the kids are bouncing off the walls and telling your that they’re bored.

Which is why I always tried to have some easy and fun activities to do to help get through the day. Most of these use items that most houses have all the time or are pretty easy to get your hands on or require nothing extra at all. The great thing is that they can all be done inside the house and may need a small amount of set up before you can get down to playing them.

Before we get into them, just be aware that some of these may require supervision, especially with young kids.

EASY CRAFTS Rocket Off and Sailing Down the Stream

One of the things that I’ve become very aware of over the past decade of being a nanny is that while parents may want to be able to sit down and do a craft with their kids, they may not be artistically inclined.

I know exactly how that feels.

As much as I would love to be able to draw the perfect truck for my nanny boys to colour in or Batman for that matter, I’m just not that good. However, I have been come very good at breaking down objects into basic shapes and creating very easy and very simple papercrafts from them.

Creating simple crafts was something that I have been wanting to create for Le Giggler for a while, but it was put on the back burner with the arrival of AJ. Now that things have settled down a bit, I was able to sit down during her naps and get started on a couple of the ideas I have and now 2 of them are available on my Etsy shop.