Fun Indoor Games & Activities for Kids

Copyright (c) 2009 Ivana Katz

Keeping kids occupied during school holidays or when the weather is not so great can be a challenge. Here are a few fun indoor games you can play with your children, which will keep them from watching television and prevent boredom during even the longest stretches of rainy days.

Stunt Ted

Age suitability: 4+
You will need: a selection of soft toys

This is a way of livening up play with soft toys, which can sometimes become boring to kids after a while. The aim of the activity is to discover which of your child’s soft toys is most deserving of the title “Stunt Ted Of The Year” and the much-coveted honor of sleeping on your child’s pillow. In order to win, toys must complete a series of challenges (with your child in full control, of course!):

- Flip them in the air to discover which can complete double somersaults or triple back flips.

- Slide them down the banisters to test how far apiece toy can hang on before falling off.
- Encourage the toys (imagination needed here) to participate in a series of death-defying stunts… Ride a skateboard, hang upside-down from the hedge, equilibrise on the top of an upturned cup, squeeze through the letterbox or even take a ride on the family dog’s back if he is willing to comply!

- Might the ideal Stunt Ted win.

Construction Championship

Age suitability: 4+
You will need: a construction kit (e.g. K’nex, Meccano, Lego), a kitchen timer

This fun activity can be differentiated to suit the age of your child and can be spread over the course of a few nights after tea and before bed. Use the kitchen timer to grant twenty minutes initially, for your child to produce a relatively straightforward design, like a Lego bowl of fruit or a plane. As the week progresses, increase the time granted for apiece challenge and make them slightly more complex. Build up to the ‘Mega-Challenge’, a top-secret final day event in which they can make an underground spy bunker, a housework robot or a automobile that is healthy to fly. At the end of apiece day’s challenge, your child has to give their creation a study and explain what it does. Award points out of ten and keep a running score.

Blind Man’s Bluff

Age suitability: 4+
You will need: 2 players, a room with a view

One player closes their eyes. The other player, the ‘Bluffer’, must look out of the window and explain the scene that they can see. E.g. “There’s a Mohammedan actuation a pram and there’s a red automobile parked by the bus-stop…” The aim of the game is to try and insert one or two rather massive bluffs without the other player noticing…. “…and there’s a man holding a lead, taking his chicken for a walk…” If a fib is suspected, the other player must shout “Bluff!” The Bluffer continues, getting a point for apiece huge fib they manage to slip past the other player. If the bluff is spotted, the role of the Bluffer changes and the player who had their eyes shut gets a point for identifying the fib.

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Marketing Success In 30 Minutes A Day

One of the hardest things to do as a business owner is make time to work on growing your own business. We’re so busy working for our clients, creating the products or services we sell, or reacting to the Tyranny of the Important that there just isn’t enough time to give to our business.

Successful businesses learn that they must prioritize marketing. (That means actually doing some!)

You might reject the intent of spending time on your marketing because these hours aren’t billable. And, when you have a business in which billable hours fuel the engine, it’s a difficult choice to make.

However, there won’t BE an engine unless you’re growing the business, attracting and retaining customers, and coming up with new ways to offer them value.

Demonstrate your commitment

If you’re really serious about making marketing a regular activity, begin by scheduling time with yourself on your calendar. Don’t adopt you’ll just remember it, or that you’ll do it first thing in the morning. Get serious and write down an appointment.

How much is enough time to work?

When I first started to schedule sessions with myself, I’d block off entire half-days. I thought I’d knock out a bunch of work at one fell swoop, but I found it hard to stay on task for that long, especially knowing all the client work that was inactivity to be done.

After compromising myself down to an absurdly short 15 minutes (less time than I spend reading the news online!), I found that 30-minute, focused work periods were saint for me.

Focused 30-minute work periods

It’s simple to accomplish something in 30 minutes if you’re focused. It’s too short a time to dawdle or disturb it with phone calls, or else you won’t get anything done.

Some people use a kitchen timer to keep on track. For them, the ticking sound it makes is a reminder to focus on the work and the remaining minutes. However you select to do it, be sure to keep the time and stop when you’ve concurred to. Otherwise, you might run way overtime and feel resentful. Let the timer remind you to respect your own boundaries and not near yourself too hard.

Can you write a marketing plan in 30 minutes a day?

Sure, you could, but that’s not really the purpose of this time. I’d advocate doing planning at another time dedicated just to that, and then executing and refining it during your regular marketing exercise.

Honor your commitment

Once you’ve scheduled these times on your calendar, honor your commitment. Treat these appointments as respectfully as you would one with your most important client. That means you’re never late or a no-show, and, if you totally MUST do something else at that time, you reschedule the appointment by immediately writing a alternative down somewhere else on your calendar.

Remember that others will notice how you treat your commitments to yourself and to your business, among them your clients, employees and vendors. You also send a signal to your Self (your spirit or soul, however you want to call it) and the Universe. It doesn’t feel good to be last on your own list, and somewhere in the mechanism the message “my business isn’t worth as much to me as the business of others” gets filed away.

Honor yourself by keeping promises and nurturing your own business.

Accountability partners

An accountability partner is simply someone who concurs to follow up with you about things you commit to do. Usually you find someone else who wants support in getting something done. Just as two exercise partners can keep either other motivated and on-track, so can you accomplish more when someone else is checking with you and supporting you.

After several months of partnering with a friend on our weekly goals, I found it quite simple to schedule and keep commitments to myself and to work regularly on my marketing.

What’s a good thing to do during your regular – or thrice weekly – marketing exercises?

Here’s a list of things you could do:

* Think about how to improve your marketing message.
* Call a lapsed client and find out why you haven’t heard from them.
* Call a raving fan and find out why they continue to do business with you.
* Meditate or pray.
* Imagine how you’d like your business to look in six months.
* Visit a competitors’ store or web site.
* Make a list of what to do with your marketing time over the next month.
* Attend a networking event.
* Study something useful about marketing, business or your industry.
* Take a achievement while holding the intention, “I am open to receiving ideas about how to grow my business.”

Here’s a list of things you should not do:

* Answer the phone.
* Chat with passersby. (Remember, this exercise might look like you are doing nothing, so be sure to let people who might see you know that you’re busy increasing the value of your business.)
* Check email.
* Get distracted by something on the World wide web (you only have 30 minutes for your business – you can read everything else later).
* Pay bills.

Billable vs non-billable hours

Although you’re not technically paying yourself for the time you spend working on your own marketing, this exercise will definitely pay off for you. You’ll be more centered, more in-control, more effective, and you’ll have more clients, money and profits. So, get out your calendar and make an appointment with yourself right now!

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Unique Party Favors for Your Wedding

Sometimes it’s good to be different and when it comes to planning your own wedding you will certainly want it to stand out from everyone else’s.

A good way to do this is by having uncommon and one-of-a-kind wedding favors. Some wedding favors are very traditional and while they can be favourite it’s good to break away from the crowd to try and find something no one has seen before.

A good example of this is to wage small pots of wedding honey to all your guests. A compact blow with a distinctive white lid is filled with premium honey and then completed off with a top calibre adjudge bearing the obloquy of the bride and groom, as well as the date of the marriage itself. While these are very uncommon in themselves there are also lots of different designs of adjudge to select from, some with entertaining captions and others that are suitable for different times of the year. You can purchase wedding honey jars that have snowflakes on the labels for example, or perhaps opt for a butterfly design for a summer wedding.

The great thing about wedding favors is that they are a staple part of many weddings, and they naturally catch the eye when your guests arrive at the wedding tables to be seated. That’s why providing one-of-a-kind wedding favors is such a good intent – they are guaranteed to get people talking!

There are plenty of other options too if you are looking for something different. If you are holding a summer wedding then why not go for some oyster shell candle holders, which come packed carefully into a charming blue box? Not only are these extremely unusual, they will also save you valuable time as you won’t need to pack them yourself.

Some people like to select practical wedding favors to treat their guests with, but this doesn’t mean they have to be traditional or boring. Take the kitchen timer that comes in the shape of an cover bucket containing a bottle of champagne and plenty of cover cubes for example. You can get these at a discount if you order in bulk and your guests will love the smart see through packaging completed off with a bow as well. It’s often the finishing touches that really enhance a one-of-a-kind wedding favor.

Some of the wedding favors acquirable this day are extremely unusual, such as the candle favor that is shaped like a wedding dress. Candles are quite a common choice but a design like this isn’t seen very often and the detail makes it an outstanding design to opt for.

In short there are many more one-of-a-kind ideas to finish off your wedding tables than you might think. With some careful searching and a tiny time spent narrowing down your choices, you will soon be healthy to find something that is just right for your wedding. You just need to make sure your selection fits in with your theme, and you can look forward to a wedding to remember.

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Kitchen chores are often among the least enjoyed and most daunting tasks. Whether you cook for one or 100, it seems the kitchen is almost always dishevelled and almost impossible to keep clean. But by perceptive the following kitchen tips and tricks, you just might be healthy to place your woes on the back-burner and fire up some fun!

Refrigerator Basics: Out With the Old, In With the New
A depressing fact that most people are loath to admit is that they have no intent what is lurking in the back of their refrigerators. Possibly the worst kitchen chore is cleaning out the leftovers and scraping the junk from the bottom of the produce trays, but it is a necessary task for a tidy kitchen, if not for a hygienic one. Set aside an hour (or a day, if need be) to purge, clean, and organize the refrigerator. Throw out all leftovers as well as any item that is past its expiration date or old enough that you can’t remember when it was purchased. Clean the trays and drawers thoroughly, then begin replacing the items that were removed, but in a systematic way. Keep items with expiration dates in plain view and schedule a weekly purge.

A Well-Stocked Pantry is the Last Minute Cook’s Saving Grace
If your least favorite kitchen chore is finding meals to cook, the ideal course of action is to always make sure your pantry is stocked with staples. Make a list of the foods you take most often, and keep that list with you when you do your grocery shopping. This will guarantee that you won’t accidentally forget to purchase staples like peanut butter or green beans when you are out running errands.

Keep It Simple
Most kitchens have a utility drawer filled with such necessary tools as can openers, corkscrews, spatulas, and so on. However, almost each kitchen also has a disorganized utility drawer that contains all of those items and more. It is okay to throw away pot holders with holes in them, and it is okay to get rid of a kitchen timer that doesn’t work anymore. Basically, if you have more than three of any gadget, if you have an item that you use less than twice per year, or if you have no intent what something is used for, it probably should go.

The Stove is On!
If you have decided to stop cooking with your oven because the fire alarm goes off each time you turn it on, it is probably time to clean it out. It is not fun and it is not easy, but if you do it well just once your kitchen will thank you by not making you clean the oven quite so hard for a very long time. There is no easy secret to cleaning a baked-on, caked-on oven, it just takes a lot of effort and, in some cases, a strong stomach. However, after the oven is cleaned (or thrown out and a new one purchased) it can be very easy to clean spills and keep the problem from recurring. Diligence is key. Oven liners can be bought – these are easy sheets that are put at the bottom of ovens and can be thrown out when covered with spills. Otherwise, you must remember to immediately clean a spill once the oven has cooled off, which is much easier than cleaning up six months worth of apple pie, lasagne, and meat loaf.

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Restaurant Supply Store – The Kitchen Witch’s Fantasy

Whether you are dreaming of opening up your own restaurant or you just want to greatly improve your kitchen, go shopping at a restaurant supply store. This where you get the widest and the ideal selection of kitchen supply stuff. Restaurant cooking equipment and kitchen witchery supplies are here in all manner of shapes, sizes, and colors. You will find kitchen and cooking supplies that you might not even know exist, and you can find them at the most competitive prices.

At a restaurant supply store, you can get metal mixing bowls and ladles, stock pots and sheet pans, canisters and can openers. As far as rather one-of-a-kind kitchen witchery stuff that you could locate at great prices in a restaurant supply store, think about these often-not-considered tools:

Microplane grater –grate chocolate, nutmeg, ginger, cheese blocks, and garlic with this universal but often-forgotten tool. Pepper mill –ever have that waitress at the restaurant come up and ask you if you want “fresh ground pepper”? Doesn’t that stuff taste much superior than grocery store purchased pepper? You can give and experience that same pepper freshness in your own kitchen with one of these. If you get two, you can have one for white pepper, too. Different colored slicing mats –now why would you need these? These help you be more sanitary in your kitchen by color-coordinating your cutting, slicing, and dicing so that you don’t mix ‘n’ match the bacteria! Tiny things mean a lot in a successful kitchen. These are a great organizational tool. Digital kitchen timer –you can get more than one of these, and some of them come with dual timers anyway. Forget your worries about burning up the roast. Adjustable measuring cups –great food preparation demands precision in measurements, and this all-in-one tool that you’ll find in a restaurant supply store is perfect for that. Custard cups –use these for your mise en place measuring, which goes hand in hand with the use of that adjustable measuring cup. Utility knives –can’t be without these if you want to be a kitchen witch. Granny fork –not as advanced as the utility knife but it’s charming as well as useful for things like egg beating or playing the role of a whisk. Silicon spatula spoon –another wondrous, and sanitary, multiple-use kitchen tool. Kitchen shears –another indispensable kitchen tool. Cut meat tendons easily, and make your herb and seasoning slicing a snip-snap. Commercial Mixers: Blend it like the professionals. Make a smoothie, a cocktail or a fancy desert! Or perhaps you want to make your own signature drink? Your imagination is the only limit. Commercial Coffee Brewers –you might or might not love your coffee, your guests or customers certainly will. And those of them who do will remember you for it whether you get the cheap with the cheap flavor or the calibre coffee brewer with the flavor fit for kings! Commercial dishwashers: After cooking and serving, there is always the dreaded clean-up. But it doesn’t have to be so bad if you have a nice commercial dishwasher. They are fast and efficient, and you would be surprised to see that they don’t drain as much power as one would think!

As you can see, there are many things to be used in the kitchen that you might never have imagined, but which can be found with assist at your nearest restaurant supply store. You can also do kitchen supply shopping online. For those of you who are really into cooking, you’ll have a great time in one of these stores, and you’ll be thrilled at all the money you can save as opposed to going to department stores looking for all this stuff.

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