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| Flashlight Color Lab ~365 TV-Free Activities Steve & Ruth Bennett Required: *1 or more flashlights 3 ballons (red, yellow,blue Warning: Keep ballons out of young children's hands! The craft is self is very simple. 1st place the ballons over the flashlight and secure with a rubber band. Go into a darkened room and have a disco in our very own home :) If you would like to use this for a teaching tool..heres an idea. By adding different ballons "filters", you can make a varity of secondary colors. (blue + yellow=green; red+ blue = purple; red + yellow = orange) Another idea is place a paper bag over the flashlight with holes in it. Then you can create a rainbow of colors on walls and ceilings :) |
| Feed the Birds 365 TV-Free Activities Steve & Ruth Bennett Required: Peanut butter Pine Cone Meat drippings Bird seed or Bread crumbs Yogurt container String If pine trees grow in your area all you have to do is take a pine cone and roll it in peanut butter and bird seed and then hang it in a tree and watch the birds stop in for a treat:) Or...You can make a "Suet Ball", Save the drippings from meat and mix them with twice as much bird seed and bread crumbs. Now punch a hole in the bottom of a yogurt container and insert a string leaving about a foot coming out of the hole in each direction. While holding the string so it doesn't coil, pour in the mixture and let it solidify. When it has fully cooled and hardened, slide the yogurt container off and hang your fresh suet bell from a tree. Nature will do the rest:) |
| Rub-a-Leaf 365 TV-Free Activities Steve & Ruth Bennett Required: Wax Paper Fresh Leaves Tissue or thin paper Crayons Optional: Tree identification guide 1st activity you can create with this is..take a leaf and press it between 2 pieces of wax paper and place them in a book and then once dried and stiff can create collages. 2nd activity you place a leaf under thin paper or tissue paper and take your crayon and create a "rubbing" of the leaf. This can be a great way to teach your children about trees and varieties of plants. Even consider creating a Leaf Scrapbook for your children to share with others :) |
| Walking Paper Puppets 365 TV-Free Activities Steve & Ruth Bennett Required: Cardboard Crayons or Markers Peanut Shells, thimbles or paper 1st have your child trace toy people or animals on thin cardboard, eliminating the legs. The cutout should be about three or four inches tall. Next, have your child decorate the drawings with crayons or markers. That's where you take over; cut two finger holes side by side at the bottom of the pictures, corresponding to the legs. (Remember, cutting is a grownup job.) The fingers go in the holes from in back of the puppet; let your fingers do the walking. For people puppets (or for funny animals) you can make shoes out of peanut shells, thimbles, or peices of paper. You and your child can take turns putting on shows for each other. |
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