Many different people end up babysitting. Sometimes it’s a job for teenagers and sometimes other mothers take on the job. When you get to babysit kids then you need to think of making the evening interesting and fun. The following great activities can be done with the kids you are babysitting. They will have a great time and you will probably get called back to babysit again.
Make Bubbles – Kids love blowing bubbles, and love it even more when they get to make the bubble stuff. To do this you will need water, dish soap (something like joy, or sunlight), and corn syrup.
1/3 cup of water
1/3 cup of dish soap
2 spoons of light corn syrup
All you have to do is combine everything and then use a bubble blower, but when you don’t have a bubble blower you can use different utensils. Open the kitchen drawers and try different types of utensils. Try a potato masher, a handle with a hole in it, etc.
Another great activity you can do with the kids is making play dough from scratch. To do this, you will need cream of tartar, water, salt, flour, food coloring, and vegetable oil.
Make Play dough-For this recipe you will need flour, cream of tartar, salt, water, vegetable oil and food coloring.
4 teaspoons of cream of tartar
2 cups of boiling water
2 cups of flour
Food coloring
4 tablespoons of vegetable oil
1 cup of salt
Put the food coloring and the oil into the boiling water. Then place everything else in and mix. The dough will begin to get smoother as you knead it. Then you need to store it in an airtight container.
The two above activities will make for great fun, then you can combine the activities with a good Disney movie and you have a night made in heaven for the kids. You can make all kinds of objects and even do some role play with the play dough figures.
Does anyone know any urban legends about babysitting in any other cultures?
I’m finding a lot of American urban legends on babysitting but none involving any other cultures. I need some from Mexico or China or something along those lines. I have to do a project over this. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks
The urban myths that you consider American, may not even be from the USA, as the same ones keep cropping up across the years and across the continents. In most cases no-one knows for sure where they have started. For example, here is the myth of the drugged babysitter cooking the baby in an oven, from an Argentinian website ….
http://www.mitos-urbanos.com.ar/mito-24-Una+ni%F1era+drogada+cocina+por+
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