8 Great Ideas for Traveling Activities
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September 20, 2008
8 Great Ideas for Traveling Activities
1. 20 Questions:
Everyone writes down a secret word which must be a noun (the name of an object). The others try to guess your word by asking questions about it.
Take turns until everyone has tried their word. You could have playoffs between the ones that stumped the lot, until only one was left.
2. Word Play:
This one is really good for older kids who are learning to read, write and spell.
Take it in turns to say a word. Any old word will do, the next person then has to take the last letter of the first word and think up another word and so on.
So say person one said “engine” person 2 would need to find a word beginning with the letter “e”, let’s say “elephant” next person in line would then have to find a word beginning with the letter “t”, such as “toys”. The winner is the last person to be able to think up a word.
3. I Went To Market:
This is another memory game which is really popular with my kids. Everybody takes it in turn to say “I went to market and I bought….” and add what they bought. Next person has to say “I went to market and I bought…. And…”
This carries on until nobody can remember the list of things that got bought at market. Again, the last person to remember the whole list is the winner.
11 Great Ideas for Outdoor Activities
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September 20, 2008
11 Great Ideas for Outdoor Activities
1: Ribbon Sticks:
For this you need nothing more than some strips of wide ribbon and some bamboo sticks. A few 4ft sticks will do. Snap them in half and tie a length of ribbon to one end. Make the ribbon length no longer than what the kids can handle.
Let the kids loose with the sticks and tell them to try to make shapes, circles, and snakes etc just like the gymnasts do on T.V.
2. Garden Fun:
Buy a cheap plastic double sided sandbox for the garden. Fill one half with sand and the other half with water. Add a whole lot of kitchen utensils and containers, and the kids will occupy themselves for ages.
Make sure you always cover the sandbox when the kids are done, or you might find that your neighbour’s cats may think it’s their litter box…
3. Picking Berries:
Find a place with lots of berries, be it blackberries, strawberries, redcurrants, raspberries or whatever and go berry picking for the day. Sometimes you may have to pay for the berries, but there are a lot of places where berries grow in the wild and are free to pick and use.
Kids LOVE picking berries, so take this chance to make it into an educational thing by bringing along a book about berries. This way you can teach them which berries are safe to pick and which ones they need to stay away from. Use the berries you pick to make desserts, jams and cakes. Scrumptious fun!
12 Great Ideas for Indoor Activities for Kids
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September 20, 2008
12 Great Ideas for Indoor Activities for Kids
1. Story time:
Read and discuss a book or a chapter of a book, make up your own endings. You can even make up your own stories by sitting the kids in a ring and letting them “add a sentence”. We’ve made up lots of really funny stories this way.
2. Giant Easel:
Go to a charity shop or wallpaper shop and buy leftover rolls of wallpaper. Cover a wall with the paper, back to front, stick it up with blu-tac or drawing pins.
Give the kids paints, crayons, chalks pens etc and let them create their own frieze. The little ones reach the bottom, whilst the big ones can reach up to the top.
3. Wax Creations:
Give the kids their old, wax crayon stubs and let them make shavings from them with a butter knife onto a piece of wax paper. When they’re done, carefully take their creations to the ironing board, lay another piece of wax paper on top, and briefly press with a warm iron.
Let the kids watch as the colours melt together. Put them on the table to cool down and harden.
