There is nothing more fun than blowing the charge, "doo doot doo doot doo doo, charge!" out of the cardboard center of a roll of paper towels (or extra wide aluminum foil center when it's all gone) for a little kid.
Or beating a tune on a canister from an old oatmeal box or coffee can with some wooden spoons or chopsticks can be delightful. Or making a fort in the front room with nothing more than some old sheets and clothespins hooked hither and thither across the back of the sofa.
Some clean clay used for sculpting can provide hours of fun for the children and won't get hard when they return to it days or weeks later. Likewise, if you know how to make tortillas, the masa or dough, provides fun for the kids while you finish yours on the griddle. Then they can roll theirs out and you can cook them when you are all done with yours and can put some butter and honey on them and they can enjoy their all of their hard work.
Or you can make your own play dough. See website below for recipes.
There is so much you can do to inspire them without spending a bunch of money on gadgets and stuff that does not stimulate their imagination. You just have to get creative. Even the very little ones can enjoy rolling out snakes with their clay. Be careful if you give them any kind of tools to work with the clay, though, nothing sharp or poky.
Drawings on paper plates, dental floss with buttons strung through them for necklaces. The list goes on and on and on.
I like the "free box" of kids toys at garage sales because I take them home and wash them up and dump them into the toy box for my grandchildren.
Get creative and spend quality and quantity time with them, because before you know it you blink and they are gone.
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