teach kids to make little crafts.....personally, i like making cards and collages with my siblings & cousins.....
when my bro & I were much younger, we'd take our stuffed toys together & hv picnics and skool playtime.....it was fun 'coz we weren't in school, so we could do all sorts of fun stuff like sit on the ground and make train noises to take us around the world (i should probably do that with my sis...but she's a makeover maniac!!!)
hmm.....how about from 3-6 yr olds, take a soft new cleaning sponge (those square ones with the rough back), remove the rough back and tie the sponge in the middle with a ribbon or cloth. add some features (preferebly with marker pen) and voila! you have your own puppet!!! *the best part is they can chew or bite it, totally wreck it and mess it.....but they stay absorbed in it!!! plus....you can wipe their messy mouth at lunchtime with it....