Babysitting Activities | Your Guide To Great Babysitting Activites

Try making your own bubble making solution - Bubbles work with kids of all ages, especially if they make their own solutions. There are a few household solutions you will need but these are found in most homes. You will need dish soap like Dawn and Corn Syrup.

1/3 cup water
2 tablespoons of corn syrup
1/3 cup dish soap

Put all ingredients together into a large bowl and have the kids find their old bubble blowers. If those old bubble blowers don't show up then have fun with some of the kitchen utensils. Use anything with a hole in it, a handle, or a potato masher. Try different types of things.

Finding things to do for kids and teens really is not that hard.

Here is another great babysitting activity, you will want to try. Make play dough from scratch. You can do this at home before you go or with the kids. You will need a few things like water, flour, food coloring, cream of tartar and vegetable oil.

Food coloring
1 cup of salt
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons cream of tartar
2 cups boiling water
4 tablespoons of vegetable oil

Get the water to boiling then add the food coloring. Afterward throw in all the rest of the ingredients, and mix everything together. Then start kneading, the more you knead the smoother the play dough will get. Then you can place it in plastic containers, and it is ready to play with.