Rainy Day Tips {and a giveaway}
April 29, 2010 by Christine - From Dates to Diapers
Filed under giveaway, Springtime
Just because it’s drizzling outside again, doesn’t mean we have to settle for boredom – Kmart toy experts are here with great rainy day indoor activity ideas from the Kmart Playdate Kit! This kit is the ultimate “how-to” guide for parents that offers easy ways for them to help host their own playdate, rain or shine. The kit includes “how-to” tip sheets, suggested activities and much more.
This week’s Playdate Kit features five flawless indoor playdate activities, such as:
- Fort-ify your home: What could be better than a little home improvement? A couple poles or brooms, some blankets and you’re ready to go!
- The fine art of fun: You really can create your own fun. Put out some clay, or set up an easel, and let the little ones’ imagination go wild!
- For more great indoor tips, please check out the Playdate Kit… There are even some great ideas for outdoor play, for when the weather isn’t so wet!
And just in time for the sun to come back out, Kmart is offering a Fisher-Price Grow to Pro Super Sounds Soccer Kit for one of you to win, which includes:
- 2×3 feet soccer goal
- Adjustable target
- Two player score keeper and ball
Just leave me a comment, before 9pm on May 8th, with your kiddos’ favorite playdate activity and you will be entered to win! Easy peasy.
One winner will be selected at random, on or around May 8th, and will be notified by email. Winner will then have 24 hours to respond before forfeiting their prize.
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Benefited giveaway
My girl’s favourite activty for a playdate is to bake goodies with her friends!
charmtime at gmail dot com
My sons favorite playdate activity is playing outside!
This would be perfect for the summer!!!! My kids favorite play date activity? Running around outside. Seriously. It ends up happening every time we have kids over. They always end up outside running around our yard and several neighbors yards.
Our favorite activity is playing outside on the swing set. If the weather doesn’t cooperate the kids play inside with Legos. We have all the sizes from big to small so everyone gets to use their imagination.
My kids are toddlers and they love to make themselves dizzy when they have friends over. They will either chase each other around (and around and around) the couch or spin each other in the office chair until they fall over.
My little one LOVES his bounce house!
Thanks for the giveaway! =)
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My son loves painting! For a 3 year old, he’s pretty fantastic!! =D
My daughter’s favorite playdate activity is playing with her Barbie dolls & art stuff.
My kids favorite playtime activity is video games.
My daughter loves to do crafts stuff with her friends.
My son’s favorite playdate activity is running and laughing outside while blowing bubbles!
My kiddo loves to play outside with friends.
The girls like to make “jewelry” out of shoestring licorice, cheerios, and fruit loops. The boys like to make forts.
My son loves going to the roller rink with his boy cousins.
my boys never get tired of the park!
I’ve got 2 boys, and nothing is better than getting outside with them….as much as possible. We also have a little park a block away from our house….BLESSING!!!! So that is definitely their favorite playdate fun!!!
Hi Christine,
Catching up on your blog. Thanks for the giveaway…
My kids favorite playdate activity is just playing outside climbing trees, building forts,catching bugs..ewww you know kids stuff:)
My son loves the swings! =)
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My kids love to play play-doh when they have a playdate. It is their favorite thing!
My son really likes dressup especially a king riding horses and he builds forts with our furniture and toys
My son is only 16 months right now, but he loves balls. ANYTHING that even resembles a ball, even round fruit in the produce department. So, on a playdate with other kids, he’ll play/take their balls, or whatever else they have! lol
We like to invite friends over to play on our new swingset!
Any activity outside because we only have about 3-4 months of nice weather to soak it all in!
Play Doh is usually good for at least 1/2 hour of quiet play
Our church has playdate and that is their fave
my 4 year old boy loves do anything outside i really loves to ride bike and play t ball this set would be great for my triplet girls also we pretty much already have the team thanks
lhayek@yahoo.com
My little brother really likes to go outside and find bugs or to get together with all the neighbor kids and play football. Last summer we bought a kite and they loved that.
This would be great to win so that Sammy can practice his soccer skills!
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We like playing Catch or Croquet.
Thanks for the chance.
mogrill@comcast.net
finger painting,blowing bubbles, playing ball
My little one’s favorite play date activity is building forts with blankets and furniture.
my grandsons never get tired of hiking the rocks a watson lake park
The kids love to go to the park for playdates. We hike, play on the jungle gym, have a picnic and ride our scooters. The kids all have scooters now and they love going to the park with them.
Our favorite playdate activity is legos. Always keeps all the kiddos busy.
otterfishy2 (at) yahoo (dot) com
My daughter likes her little basketball hoop out on the patio. She shoots hoops a lot now that the weather is warmer.
LEGOS
tvollowitz at aol dot com
Our daughter has several items that sprinkle or shoot water around, and she likes to play in the water.
My 2 boys, 2 & 1, favorite playdate activity is exploring someone else’s toys or backyard – funny how much more interesting it is than their own!
scribblelikeme at hotmail dot com
Actually they love to kick the soccer ball. We have a little soccer ball and use cardboard boxes as “goals.” I know they would LOVE a real net!
The boys love to play outside and play baseball.
my son & his friends love to play in the backyard
autumn398 @ yahoo.com
My daughters like to play outside – on a swing set or playhouse. Thanks!
We are total football junkies at my house! This would be perfect in the off-season!
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My oldest’s fav is playing baseball and my youngest is just being outside and doing anything where he can run! haha
I would have to say its playing baseball.
soccer mom luvs to papemache on a rainy day
My son loves to play on the slides at the park for his playdates.
When my grandchildren get together with their cousins, they love to play hide and seek.
smchester at gmail dot com
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My kids love to play in the sand box..but the kicker is they love using the hose with the sand for a nice muddy mess. Always needing a bath after playtime.
Thanks for the contest.
My kids love playing with sidewalk chalk….and anything outside!
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My daughters favorite playdate activity is riding bikes and jumping on her trampoline.
My son likes to play Thomas the train with his buddy.
My daughter’s favorite play date activity is going to the park.
My son likes to play baseball/catch with his friends when they are over to play.
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He is crazy about slides. He loves to go to the park and play on all of the slides all day long!
That would be awesome when its hot out too
One of their favorite rainy day activities is playing in the rain! Sometimes, if I know I will have time to deal with the mud and the mess, I let them get wet and splash in the puddles in the backyard.
My daughter’s favorite activity is playing in the sprinkler!
My kids love playing at the school playground
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my son’s favorite playdate activity is anything outside.
Swimming and playing on the swings are both favorite playdate activities here.
Thank you so much for the chance to win.
jweezie43[at]aol[dot]com
Our all-time favorite outdoor game with the kids has to be “Kick the Can.” Maybe kicking that can will produce some great soccer players, eh?
Thanks for a great giveaway!
My daughter loves meeting her friends to bike ride.
My kids favorite playdate activity is planning with trains and building tracks and cities.
Right now, my son’s favorite playdate activity is chewing on his feet and gurgling with the occasional ‘GOO!’ or ‘AHHHHH.’ I imagine that will change in a few months though.
My sons favorite playdate activity is playing outside!
My daughter loves swimming in the pool. It is summer time so it is great.
My daughter loves to get her friends together to play with her Littlest Pet Sop toys. it keeps them entertained for hours.
My daughter loves to make jewelry!
My daughter loves to play soccer outside but her favorite playdate activity is to play on her swingset with her friends. She loves being outside.
they like to go to the park,this would be great for my kiddos!
ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com
My son’s favorite is playing football with his buddies.
My daughter likes to play dress up when she has playdates. My son likes to get every single toy in his toy box out and sit in it with his friend lol! He’s only 1 though. Thanks for the chance!
My daughters love to play Mario Kart or Rock Band at their playdates or if the weather is nice, we have picnics outside.
Ian loves to play trains.
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My daughters favorite play date is ANYTHING messy.
My kids’ favorite play date activity is playing on the swing set.
My daughter loves to play hockey with her friends
My kids love playing computer games.
mine love going to our local recreation park
Baby is too young to do much on playdates, but tries his hardest to play catch (he’s getting better and better at it!)
mamanadroit at gmail dot com
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Fav playdate activity, playing in the outside playhouse always keep the kids entertained.
Legos
playing board games