10 Entertaining Ideas For Waiting In Restaurants With Kids

by Karly Wood June 5, 2015

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7. Stacking With Chopsticks

You probably don’t always eat out a Chinese or Japanese restaurant, so this game will require some tools that you keep in your car. Just keep some cheap chopsticks on hand, and you can have the kids use them to pick up items and stack stack stack! They can be wooden blocks you bring along with you, to sugar packets or ice cubes. This is also a great activity to improve motor skills!

If you’d like to create the wooden block version pictured above, then visit CFabbridesigns.com for the tutorial, along with other great ideas on crafting, holidays and even weddings!

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8. Alphabet Game

If you have a preschool or kindergarten aged child, this is a great activity, even if you didn’t plan ahead. You can just use the back of a paper menu! Simply fill out a sheet of paper with the alphabet, being sure to leave certain letters blank. Then let your child go through and add the missing letters. If you do plan ahead, you can make several version, photo copy them, and then you will always have plenty on hand!

NoTimeForFlashcards.com has this and hundreds of other great learning activities for children of all ages.

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9. Straw Paper Worms

I remember this trick from eating at restaurants when I was a kid. All you need to do is scrunch up all the paper on a straw, before removing it. Then slowly take the paper off, careful not to stretch the paper back out. Then put droplets of water on the paper and watch it grow! Your little ones will love this trick, and it will entertain them for at least 5 straws.

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10. Busy Wallet

One of my daughter’s favorite activities is pulling out my wallet and then pulling out every single item. I let her because she loves it, but I’m always afraid I will get home and realize that several of my credit cards were left wedged in between the booth cushions! But now I don’t have to let her use my own wallet, because I’m going to make her a busy wallet. This is the perfect activity because you can just use an old wallet and fill it to the brim with small treasures. You can stuff it with paper to draw on, crayons, stickers, old reward cards, pictures, ribbons and whatever else you find around the house. Genius!

Check out HelloBee.com to see her busy wallet and get connected to tons of other boards on crafts and all things motherhood.

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Karly Wood

Editor at Red Tricycle

I'm a born and bred Southern California native and currently the managing editor at Red Tri. I get to share my life with my husband of 13 years and our beautiful, 5-year old daughter. In my free time you'll catch me cheering for the Dodgers, cooking, baking, reading, crafting and probably watching a little HGTV!