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21st
Jul 2012

Children’s Activity 74: House Detective

A Children’s Indoor Play Activity

In Hide It (Childrens Indoor Play Activity 69), you played the classic “warmer / colder” finding game with your child. Now give your child clues about common objects hidden in your house. Tailor the clues to your child’s abilities.

Materials Required:

  • Your Time

Optional Materials:

  • Scraps of paper

Instructions:
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19th
Jul 2012

Children’s Activity 72: Homemade Dashboards

An Arts and Crafts Activity

Extracting our son from the driver’s seat of our car proved to be one of the greatest parenting challenges we had ever faced. Life became easier when we gave him his own dashboard.

Materials Required:

  • Cardboard box
  • Plastic container lids
  • Bottle caps
  • Brads
  • Crayons and markers
  • Cardboard tubes

Instructions:

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17th
Jul 2012

Children’s Activity 71: Home Planetarium

An Indoor Play Activity
These days, a good planetarium projector costs a little over $300,000. That may be too pricey, but you can create a pretty wild – and even educational – light show with nothing more than a flashlight and some common household items.

Materials Required:

  • Flashlight
  • Large juice can
  • Paper
  • Tape or rubber band
  • Scissors or X-acto knife (adult use only)

Instructions:
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16th
Jul 2012

Children’s Activity 70: Hollow Eggs

An Arts and Crafts Activity

Once upon a time, the name Faberge meant a little more than cologne; it was the name of the man who perfected the decoration of hollow eggs with precious trappings like diamonds and gold.

Materials Required:

  • Eggs
  • Bowl
  • Watercolors
  • Felt-tip markers
  • Macaroni, barley

Instructions:

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12th
Jul 2012

Children’s Activity 67: Heavy Stuff

A Children’s Indoor Play Activity
Does your kid think a pound of bricks weighs more than a pound of feathers? This activity can clue you into your child’s understanding of the physical world. 

Materials Required:

  • Dowel (3 feet) or card board tube from wrapping paper
  • Wire hanger
  • String
  • Clay
  • Strawberry or paper baskets

Instructions:
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