O.K. I know I already put a post up today but as I was preparing for the act ivies of the week I found a couple that have worked really well and thought I'd pass them along.
1. take an old sheet or piece of fabric put it on your drive way take out the tempra paint and let your kids run all over it leaving their tracks. ( I'm doing this one tomorrow so I'll let you know how it goes.)
2. rainbow hide I fund this in a magazine and changed it for my group of kids. It was rainbow tag which sounded just as fun. But I painted Popsicle sticks different colors and hid them all over the place some easy most hard and left a marker that matched the color. Then I gave all the kids a stone and sent them on the hunt to find them all once they found the stick they needed to color that color on their stone and leave the marker for the others to find. Once they colored their stone with all the colors they brought them to me and I had a bag of treasure for them to pick through. It took them about 45 mins to find them all and they loved it trying top be secretive so no one saw where they found the marker.
3.Picture pirates. Here I dressed them all up as pirates and sent them on a hunt for the diamond ring which was ring pops. I let picture clues so all the little kids knew where to look for the next clue. We turned the play structure into a pirate ship and they played for a long time being chased by sharks and looking for loot to steal. It was lots of fun.
4. this is my last one right now but I drew a skeleton of a t rex cut up all the bones on paper and hid them in the sand box. I left the neck all together and other small bones to make it easier and gave all the kids sticks which thy then had to shift and gently move the sand to find the bones we then taped it to the fence to see what it made. The kids loved this and ask to do all the time. I also hid eggs just little chocolate one for them to find as well they loved their eggs. I always make them take most of the candy home because I don't want the mess here and I don't need them any more giggly then they are.
I hope some of you can use these with your kids this summer I'm always on the look for ideas so I'll pass them along when I know that they work.
Hey can I come to your daycare it sounds like FUN. Another great idea is to make balls using balloons. Take a small balloon, add water, just enough to hold in your hand. Tie up the balloon and then using about 7-9 balloons and cover the balloon, cutting off the stubs. Take the balloon outside and you can bounce it on the driveway and it won't break!!!!
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You are the coolest Mom ever! I will definitely try these ideas!
ReplyDeleteThese sound like great ideas. Last summer when I was home with Tracey we had the kids play Sticker Tag. WE gave them each a sheet of different colored sticker dots. (like garage sale stickers etc.) then they ran around the yard sticking them on eachother. They had a ball and you could sure tell who the faster runners were. :-)
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