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<h1>Activities and Ideas for Children</h1>
<h4>(and adults who like childish stuff)</h4>
<hr>
<a href="#outdoors">Outdoors</a><br>
<a href="#activities">Activities</a><br>
<a href="#art">Building and Art</a><br>
<a href="#science">Science</a><br>
<a href="#books">Books</a><br>
<a href="#movies">Movies</a><br>
<a href="#tv">TV shows</a><br>
<a href="#boardgames">Board Games</a><br>
<a href="#toys">Toys</a><br>
<a href="#songs">Songs</a><br>
<a href="#videogames">Educational Video Games</a><br>
<a href="#camps">Camps</a><br>
<hr>
<h3 id="outdoors">Outdoors:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Capture the Flag</li>
<li>Grounders</li>
<li>Fishes and Whales</li>
<li>Frozen tag</li>
<li>Wrestling</li>
<li>Sliding on sleds</li>
<li>Take pictures of spots in the woods. Children search the woods to try to find the spots in the pictures.</li>
<li>Frozen tag</li>
<li>Hot Dog Tag</li>
<li>Hockey</li>
<li>Soccer</li>
<li>Yoga</li>
<li>Pac Man Tag</li>
<li>Hide and Seek</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="activities">Activities:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Dickie birds rhyme / magic trick (with tape on your fingers)</li>
<li>Animal Charades</li>
<li>Cooking</li>
<li>Puzzles</li>
<li>Telling Stories</li>
<li>Act out a drama of a story (e.g. the Three Little Pigs</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="art">Building and Art:</h3>
<p>(Some ideas from "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Crafts-Australian-Womens-Weekly/dp/0949128015">Children's Art & Crafts Australian Women's Weekly</a>", which my mom has on her bookshelf)</p>
<ul>
<li>Blocks</li>
<li>Play Doh</li>
<li>Making musical instruments from paper plates and beads</li>
<li>Making guitars from kleenex boxes and elastics</li>
<li>Finger painting</li>
<li>Painting with ice</li>
<li><a href="https://www.myfrugalhalloween.com/tf43944459.tip.html">Building skeleton out of bones (made of cardboard?) and tying the pieces together with string</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.thebestideasforkids.com/bubble-art/">Bubble Art</a></li>
<li>Building musical instruments and then playing them</li>
<li>Painting without brushes</li>
<li>Painting with eyes closed</li>
<li>Fingerprint drawings: make your fingerprint and then draw something around it so the fingerprint becomes part of the picture.</li>
<li>Making drawings out of your name or out of words</li>
<li>Leaf rubbings</li>
<li>String painting</li>
<li>Trace your body and then paint it</li>
<li>Blot painting - fold paper in half, paint on it, fold it in half to make the paint create a mirror image</li>
<li>Marble painting - get paint on marbles and roll them around on paper</li>
<li>Paper dyeing - get absorbant paper, fold it up, dip it in paint, unfold it to dry</li>
<li>Mural painting (outside on the wall)</li>
<li>Branch weaving (weaving with branches being the outside border)</li>
<li>Sewing cards: cut out a shape, hole punch the outside border, and have kids thread yarn into and out of the holes</li>
<li>Sponge printing (dip sponge in paint and press it on paper</li>
<li>Nature collage (glue pieces of nature to poster / paper)</li>
<li>Finger puppers</li>
<li>Sock puppets</li>
<li>Boats</li>
<li>Papier mache</li>
<li>Paper fans</li>
<li>Box puzzle (make your own puzzle)</li>
<li>Rock painting</li>
<li>Xylophone with bottles of water (each with a different amount of water). Add food coloring to make it colorful.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="science">Science:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Water (different amounts in glasses, food coloured)</li>
<li>Beaver dam</li>
<li>Bubbles that don't pop</li>
<li>Microscope</li>
<li>Solar system model</li>
<li>Star Chart app on phone (augmented reality to look at the stars based on where you point the phone)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.livecrafteat.com/craft/homemade-flubber-for-kids/">Making flubber</a></li>
<li>Making OObleck</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="books">Books:</h3>
<ul>
<li>"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupery</li>
<li>"The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis</li>
<li>"His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman</li>
<li>"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling</li>
<li>"Alice in Wonderland" by Louis Carroll</li>
<li>"The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" by Dr. Suess</li>
<li>"Harold's Fairy Tale" by Crockett Johnson</li>
<li>"Imagine a World" by Rob Gonsalves</li>
<li>"Mama, do you love me" by Barbara Joosse</li>
<li>"Everybody needs a rock" by Byrd Baylor</li>
<li>"Mouse Soup" by Arnold Lobel</li>
<li>"Owl and Other Scrambles" by Lisl Weil</li>
<li>"The Owl and the Pussycat and other Nonsense" Illustrated by Owen Wood</li>
<li>"Don't Let the Pidgin Drive the Bus!" by Mo Willems</li>
<li>"Songbirds of Eastern Canada Paintings" by Kathryn DeVos Miller, Text by Trudy L. Rising</li>
<li>"Are you my Mother?" by P.D. Eastman</li>
<li>"Duck! Rabbit!" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld</li>
<li>"The Lion and the Mouse" by Jerry Pinkney</li>
<li>"The Red Book" by Barbara Lehman</li>
<li>"Time Flies" by Eric Rohmann</li>
<li>"Robot Dreams" by Sara Varon</li>
<li>"There's a Mouse in my House" by Sheree Fitch</li>
<li>"Toes in my Noes and other poems" by Sheree Fitch</li>
<li>"Uno's Garden" by Graeme Base</li>
<li>"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert</li>
<li>"The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler</li>
<li>"Olivia" by Ian Falconer</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="movies">Movies:</h3>
<ul>
<li>The Croods</li>
<li>Frozen</li>
<li>My Neighbor Totoro</li>
<li>The Secret World of Arietty</li>
<li>The Lorax</li>
<li>Fern Gully</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="tv">TV shows:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Teddy Ruxpin</li>
<li>Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="boardgames">Board Games:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Bounce-off</li>
<li>Sorry!</li>
<li>Pokemon Trading Card Game</li>
<li>Crossbows and Catapults</li>
<li>Clue</li>
<li>Spy Alley</li>
<li>Mousetrap</li>
<li>Go Fish</li>
<li>Pictionary</li>
<li>Crokinole</li>
<li>Don't Spill the Beans</li>
<li>Bausack</li>
<li>Mouse Trap</li>
<li>Memory</li>
<li>Fives</li>
<li>Barrel of Monkeys</li>
<li>Connect 4</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="toys">Toys:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Capsella</li>
<li>Blocks</li>
<li>Music Keyboard</li>
<li>Table Hockey</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="songs">Songs:</h3>
<p>(Many song lyrics are <a href="https://www.theteachersguide.com/ChildrensSongs.htm">here</a>)</p>
<ul>
<li>Baa Baa Black Sheep</li>
<li>Baby Beluga</li>
<li>Ants go Marching</li>
<li>Do Your Ears Hang Low</li>
<li>Farmer in the Dell</li>
<li>Going on a Lion Hunt</li>
<li>Grandfather's Clock</li>
<li>Hole in the bottom of the sea</li>
<li>If You're Happy and You Know It</li>
<li>Itsy Bitsy Spider</li>
<li>Jingle Bells</li>
<li>John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt</li>
<li>Mary Had a Little Lamb</li>
<li>My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean</li>
<li>On Top of Spaghetti</li>
<li>Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sun Shine in</li>
<li>Puff the Magic Dragon</li>
<li>She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain</li>
<li>There's a Hole in the Bucket</li>
<li>You Are My Sunshine</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="videogames">Educational Video Games:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Scrap Mechanic</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 id="camps">Camps:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Redtail Nature Awareness Camp: <a href="https://friendsofredtail.ca/">here</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redtail_Nature_Awareness">here</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.worldsunbound.ca/">Worlds UNBound at UNB</a></li>
</ul>
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