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Date Posted: 02:17:15 06/28/01 Thu
Author: Diane
Author Host/IP: 203.110.18.207
Subject: Re: Oh Please, please everybody....post to this!
In reply to: Marlene 's message, "Oh Please, please everybody....post to this!" on 19:59:43 06/27/01 Wed

Marlene, not having a daughter I do enjoy the chance to do "girly" things occassionly ~ here's something I spent an enjoyable afternoon doing with a niece once. Get hold of a huge cardboard box.... and turn it into a custom made dolls house! It's heaps of fun. :) Scraps of material for curtains, smaller cardboard boxes for furniture.... let the imagination run rampant. It's all the little touches that get kids excited - taped on cellophane for windows etc.

Another idea. Vegetable platters designed to look like gardens. That's where you take raw vegies and make mini gardens (a great way to get kids to sample raw veg) brocolli trees, dipping sauce for ponds, carrot stick logs - again... imagination.

Here's another. Stained glass pictures. You take a sheet of paper, mark out your design with marker, colour it in with crayon then oil (any household salad oil applied lightly with a cotton ball or similar) the back and ~ hey presto (after drying out) you have a nice stained glass design to hang in a window. (Or use for the windows of the cardboard house maybe. :)

How about "making camp" in the backyard? Set up a shelter, make a little pit for a fire (safely of course) and bake something on it? It doesn't have to be fancy to impress kids - just cooking over an open fire with a flour/water and whatever mixture (or even toasting bread or marshmallows) seems to impress them. :)

Making montages can be fun too. All sorts of bits and bobs can be used - material, toothpicks, cotton balls, cardboard. Get a piece of base cardboard, add a heavier cardboard frame and then build up layers inside the frame to create a three dimensional picture - you can get some excellent results. Or you can do the same thing using things collected from nature... leaves, shells, sticks etc (which means a trip out collecting and then another period of time used up creating).

How about sorting through old makeup and clothes and letting them make up a play? Or maybe you could draw faces and let the younger ones "make them up". (If you do that I want pictures of the outcome, LOL).

Planting a container garden? Something small that they can take home if you are looking after them at your place. Kids need quick results when planting - so research needs to be done. Radishes are good for vegies, alysum for flowering plants - there are heaps more of course.

Fruit picking? Can you take them fruit picking anywhere nearby? (Hee, hee - child labour ideas coming out) then you could make a pie with them after.

Take a huge piece of board, prop it up outside somewhere, dress them in really old clothes and let them paint a mural. :) (I take no responsibility for any future grafetti, LOL).

If you have a concrete area you can buy special large chalk for drawing on it (like in Mary Poppins - with the pavement artistry)... that's heaps of fun and takes up hours. :)

Ok.... run out of steam now ;-) I hope some of the above are of use to you!!!

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