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Summer Time Fun
Activities
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Take some
of your childs small plastic figurines or toys (ie. Plastic
bugs, animal figures, Little Tikes Figures etc) and put them in
small plastic containers (ie. Magerine or yogurt containers,
tupperware containers etc.), fill containers with water and
freeze. Remove frozen items from the containers. The frozen
items can be placed in water so they can melt away quickly or in
a large empty container such as your childs wading pool or a
large storage bucket Your child will have hours of fun ice
play.
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Get an ice
cube tray fill it with water and different colours of food
colouring. Once frozen place ice in a large bucket of water.
As the ice melts the colours will mix.
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Get paint
brushes, sponges, cloths etc and fill many buckets with water.
Your child will love painting furniture, fences, sidewalks and
more....but the great part is there will be no damage.
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Sand Box
Volcanoes: going to the beach or even better if you have a
sandbox in your back yard make a sand castle with your child,
put a well in the top and sprinkle in some baking soda, add some
vinegar and TADAAA you have an instant volcanoe.
Activities &
Toys
If you have a
hot glue gun this toy will take less than 5 minutes to make.
What you need
is:
You can make
an instant puppet for your child by gluing on 5 farm animals to
the finger tips of a glove. If
you use a small stretchy wool glove your older child can wear the
glove puppet as well.
(WARNING:
it may require hours of singing Old MacDonald had a Farm)
Try gluing
other items on gloves as well, cloth flowers, plastic frogs etc.
Due to size of
farm figures please use glove puppet under adult supervision.
Bottle Shakers
What you need:
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Clear plastic bottle (i.e. water
bottle)
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Beads, rice, sparkles, water,
sand, beans, buttons etc.
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Duct Tape (many stores have duct
tape that comes in a variety of colours)
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Hot Glue Gun
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Imagination -
This is a fun and quick project to make for your child and one
that will involve many hours of enjoyment.
I recommend making more than one bottle and making the
contents in each one different.
Here’s what
you do:
Choose any
item/s that you and your child would like such as sand and sea
shells, plastic spiders, water and buttons, water with large
sparkles, coloured rice, bells etc. and place them into a clear
bottle. Cover the lid
with coloured duct tape (if there is liquid in the bottle I
recommend using a hot glue gun along with the duct tape) and then
let the fun begin!
This is also a great project to make with your older
child. A variety of
musical instruments could be made using rice, bells, beans, rocks,
buttons, sand and more. (I’m sure that any preschooler would be
full of great ideas.)
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