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Send them on a scavenger hunt Give your kids a list of ten things they have to dig up from the deepest recesses of your apartment: a pink stuffed animal; three green socks; a drawing of an apple tree; five Q-tips…you get the idea. If you want this game to last more than five minutes, make sure you throw in at least one toughie that they’ll have to create from scratch or that you’ve surreptitiously hidden in the back of a closet.
Dance party! Pop in your kids’ favorite CD, and let them boogie around the living room while you close your eyes and mumble encouragements such as “Hot moves!” and “Wow, you should be on Dancing with the Stars!” If they insist that you hoof it, quickly distract them by suggesting a game of freeze dance. All you’ll have to do is muster enough energy to press the pause button on the CD player every 30 seconds or so.
Get your game on Board games are a classic low-energy pastime, but some require a little more thought than others. Skip fast-moving card games or anything that involves complicated rules or construction skills, like Monopoly or Mousetrap. The under-five set can be happily entertained with Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, or card-matching games (the Goodnight Moon Game from Briar Patch is particularly snooze-inducing, in a good way). Older kids can play Guess Who?, Scrabble or Sorry. The best thing about them? They’re meant to be played while you’re lying flat on the rug next to a bag of Oreos.
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