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Rainy day fun all day long is filled with imagination, laughter, learning, giving, cooking, sharing, games and more builds confidence and self esteem. Doing things together as a family will be remembered for years. So here are a few suggestions to try on your next rainy day.

1. For Girls make cardboard paper dolls of different sizes and cut out fashionable outfits - skirts, blouses, jeans, shorts party dresses from a colorful sales flier or old Sears Catalog. Make sure to cut tabs so you can fold/attach to dolls. Choose different faces and paste on cardboard dolls. Make dolls different sizes and form a family. Choose different accessories like jewelry, purse, hat etc. Place outfits in envelopes and label whether spring, summer, fall, or winter outfit. You may want to paste on construction paper to make them sturdy and last longer for another rainy day. Give each paper doll a name. Then use your imagination and pretend to go to a party, school, church, movie and chat back and forth. It will be so fun!

2. For boys make a house and barn out of empty milk cartons covered in brown sack paper. Stack milk cartons as high and wide as they want. You can use colored construction paper and draw windows and doors. Cut egg cartons and put together forming a corral for animals - horses, pigs, chickens etc. Make a pond for ducks by crinkling tin foil paper enclose with a clothspin fence. Boys can use there trucks and pretend to go to town and get supplies or use their tractors to make a garden. They can have a rodeo by making jumps out of empty toilet tissue rolls and glue together at different heights. You could stand 2 toilet tissue rolls like pillars and attach a pencil between at different heights. Have a starting line and a finish line. Have a stop watch and see how fast they can do the jumps.

3. Soap carving for older kids is fun. Let them carve animals and then wrap in clear plastic wrap. Have them think of a special friend that they can give to as a homemade gift. Their friend will remember and cherish this gift and it teaches a child to be a giver of gifts.

4. Play Dough - find a recipe to make your own play dough or buy at a store. Decide on what you want to make like people, animals, houses etc. Use cookie cutters and pretend to make cookies for a special upcoming party. You can bake their masterpieces in a oven and be sure to make a hole at top to use as a Christmas tree ornament.

5. A Computer print out of a picture of each child and paste on a colored poster paper.

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