An Alphabetical List of Children's Activities
With many thanks to Bard Catriona who put together the base of this list. If you have additional suggestions, please send them to me and I will add them to the list.
Children's Activities list
A
Archery, including safety, fletching, shooting, and care of equipment
Armor work, including cleaning, making, and dressing fighter
B
Basketry, including gathering reeds, dyeing, weaving
Bookbinding
Boffer tourney's for children their age
Brewing - grinding grain, taking temperatures, stirring, etc.
C
Calligraphy, including making ink, quills, and gathering materials, learning a period hand
Candlemaking
Coloring
Cooking, including making fresh pasta, sourdough cookery, how to make bread
D
Dancing
Decorating various items for the event -- such as coloring in the borders on photocopied scrolls for winners of contests, or painting shield shapes to decorate the list area. 
Drumming
E
F
Firebuilding, including safety, gathering tinder and kindling, building a firepit
Fishing: make period equipment (poles, nets, etc., then try using them)
G
Garb Workshops
H
Heraldry
Hobby Horses
Hunts, Gentles, Shields
I
Illumination
Iron work
J
Juggling
Jewelry making, including stringing beads, polishing stones
K
Kitchen work, including safety, preparation, cleaning, serving
L
Leather work
M
Merchant 
Music, both playing and singing,
N
Nuts, gilding for decoration or gluing into forms
O
Origami
P
Printer, including making 'stationary' from printing blocks(potato or sponge or wood)
Pages, includes carrying messages, running errands. list runner.  
Painting
Plant and wildlife identification
Period games
Pottery
Q
Queen's page
R
Raising herbs for cooking--plant a pot or two with seeds after identifying and eating
S
Shield Hunt
Sewing, such as make a favor for their favorite fighter, pouches, hats
Shaking cream into butter for the lunch table (use unbreakable jars)--little ones can take turns doing this--sing a little song for each kid's turn, at the end of the song, they pass the jar to the next kid.
Singing
Spinning, including shearing, cleaning, carding 
Stargazing--learning constellations
Storytelling
Stringing dried fruit for storage
T
Textile arts, including weaving, embroidery, needlepoint, blackwork
U
Usury
V
Ventriloquism
Versemonger
W
Weaving
weather: predict it by learning about the types of clouds and period sayings.
Water bearer 
Wood working, including, carving, whittling, assembling
X
Xebec maker
Xenodocheum host
Y
Yurts, making little ones of felt while hearing about Mongol culture
Z
Zoology
Zamindar
Zealot
Zend-Avestra interpreter
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