What to bring?: Felt Board

To make a cute, fun, easy felt board, all you need is:

• felt (duh) (and the color doesn't matter)
• long wide wood plank or white board
• printed pictures or cut felt in the shape of something you would like to put on your board
• more felt (typically your going to need a lot of felt)
• glue
• scissors

1. Glue felt to the long wide wood plank or white board enough to cover it.
2. take your pictures and cut little pieces of felt out (don't do step 2 and 3 if you cut felt in the shape of something you would like to put on your board)
3. glue 1 of the little pieces of felt to the back of each one (some will require bigger pieces)
4. let them dry and there you go!

 The little pieces of felt on the back of the pictures stick to the felt on the board. Enjoy and have fun!

Starting

If your just starting to babysit here are a few things to get you started.  Exercise with them!

1.  kids or babies like FUN babysitters. Do not neglect the kids by just turning on the T.V. because that's NOT at all what their mom wants them to do. Get active by playing outside if allowed to or play a board game with them. It's an enjoyable way to babysit! 
2.   ALWAYS try to bring something for them. Board games, enjoyable toys, etc. 
3.  have FUN! why are you babysitting if you can't do it your own way? Turn on your fav music and have a dance party! 
4. Exercise with the poor kids!!!!!

 

Crafts: "Movie Box"

Here's a cool craft that is fun and easy. Its a "Movie Box".
What you'll need:

• shoe box
• Long sheet of paper (depends on how long "movie" is)
• scissors/kitchen knife (either one will do)
• crayons/ coloring supplies

1.  Take coloring supplies and draw lines making boxes on your paper as big as the side of your box through your long sheet of paper making the "slides".
2. Use scissors or knife to slit a whole in the front top of your box.
3. Use scissors or knife to make a flap in the top of the box.
4. Color on each of your "slides" a different scene.
5. slide the "slides" through the slit in the box and open the flap for light.

Make different "slides" every time to make different little movies!

Drawing

Drawing, (or scribbling in some cases) is also something kids like to do. They like to draw things like their favorite cartoon characters, their families, etc. Here are some reference pictures for coloring.

How can I have fun?

How can YOU have fun? I mean all your doing is watching kids which can get BORING!!!!! Don't you want to have a little fun? Here's how you can. Well, of coarse you can turn on your fav music and teach them to dance and sing along to it, or have a dance party, but what else can you do? You can always relive the kid moments and play barbies, but my favorite is taking my video camera and making a "movie". You can do it with little action figures and polly pockets, or choose the kids as the stars! It's
different every time and so much fun to see what they'll do!

My Experiments and Crafts

Most of my experiments come from a different website. I only use a few though because some are extremely complicated. Here is the link if you want to try harder and more complicated experiments! Some are really cool though so don't let complication turn you off! Experiments

About the crafts! I get some of them from Martha Stewart's Website! Some of them you can't do with the kids by yourself though but if you think you can go for it! Crafts

Daily Expirements: Blobs in a bottle

• A clean 1 liter clear soda bottle
• 3/4 cup of water
• Vegetable Oil
• Fizzing tablets (such as Alka Seltzer, etc.)
• Food coloring

1. Pour the water into the bottle.

2. Use a measuring cup or funnel to slowly pour the vegetable oil into the bottle until it's almost full. You may have to wait a few minutes for the oil and water separate.

3. Add 10 drops of food coloring to the bottle (we like red, but any color will look great.) The drops will pass through the oil and then mix with the water below.

4. Break a seltzer tablet in half and drop the half tablet into the bottle. Watch it sink to the bottom and let the blobby greatness begin!
5. To keep the effect going, just add another tablet piece. For a true lava lamp effect, shine a flashlight through the bottom of the bottle.