Stuff For Kids To Do

Science: Hair Raising Balloon Experiment

You will need some balloons

1. Blow up your balloon and tie a knot to hold the air inside.

2. Rub your hair with the balloon a number of times.

Then, hold the balloon above your head. Make sure that you are not touching your head.

3. Watch as your hair stands on end!

Why?

Rubbing a balloon on your hair creates static electricity,

Static electricity is a build-up of electrical charge on an object, because some of the electrons (negatively charged) are transferred across.

One object will have a negative charge and one to have a positive charge.

Science: Hair Raising Balloon Experiment

Make Cheerleader Pom Poms and Dance

To make simple cheerleader pom-poms, you need 4 to 7 clean plastic bags per pom-pom, a pair of scissors, and tape, string, or a rubber band

What You Need

• 4 to 7 plastic grocery bags or colored trash bags per pom-pom

• Sharp scissors

• Packing tape, string, rubber band, or a spare plastic strip to tie the center

• Optional: A marker pen, stick, or rolled plastic handle for a firm grip

• Flatten the bags:

Lay 4 to 7 plastic bags flat on a table in a neat stack. If using grocery bags with handles and bottom seams, cut off the bottom seam and cut off the handles so you have rectangular plastic sheets.

• Cut the fringe:

Cut thin strips (about 1/2 inch wide) along both sides or down the length of the stacked bags, leaving a solid 1.5 to 2-inch uncut strip right down the middle to serve as your spine/handle base.

• Gather and tie:

Gather or roll the stack tightly by the uncut middle section. Bind and tie the center tightly using a piece of string, a rubber band, a strip cut from a bag, or tape.

• Create a handle:

Wrap extra tape or a discarded pen/stick around the tied center section to make a sturdy grip.

• Fluff the pom-pom:

Shake the pom-pom vigorously and gently pull apart the individual plastic layers to separate the strips and add volume

Now you are ready. Play some music, such as:

"Shake It Off" — Taylor Swift

"Cotton Eye Joe"

Hunt the Thimble

Hunt the thimble is a party game in which one person hides a thimble, or other small object, somewhere in the room, while all other players wait outside.

When everyone returns, they race to locate the hidden object. The first to find the object is the winner, and hides it for the next game.

Hunt the Thimble

Paper Plate Animal Faces

Create your own pets or, dogs, cats, rabbits, cows elephants, zebras, giraffes, tigers, lions, pigs, reindeer. Or invent your own creature.

Helps a child develop their imagination, as they create animal friends and engage in play and storytelling.

You Will Need

Cardboard, paper plates, paint, scissors, and glue.

Paper Plate Animal Faces

Make a Kite out of Paper or Plastic Bag

Paper Bag Kite

You will need some paper lunch bags, string, a hole punch, sticky tape and some scissors.

1, Decorate your bag with textas or pencils.

2. With a hole punch, make four holes (two on each side of the opening of the bag). Then reinforce around the holes with pieces of sticky tape.

3. Use two pieces of string of equal length), and tie one end around each hole.

4. Tie the string together using a long piece of string, which you can hold. Or, wind the string around a stick, for you to hold onto when you are flying your kite.

Paper Bag Kite

Plastic Bag Kite (Too easy)

Simply tie a piece of string around the handles of a thin plastic bag and run.

Plastic Bag Kite (Too easy)

Make Your Own Coloured Flour Clay

Make Your Own Flour Clay

You need

A large mixing bowl

Large spoon

Ingredients

2 cups of plain flour
1 cup of salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3/4 to 1 cup of water
Food colouring

Method

1. Mix flour and salt in a bowl. Add the oil and slowly add the water until you get the right clay consistency.

2. Select different food colours, then separate the dough into small portions and put each into separate bowls. Add a drop of different colour to each bowl and mix with spoon.

3. Once the dough is well combined, shape it into your creative vision. Then, allow it air dry.

Make Your Own Flour Clay

Pretend Grocery Store

The pretend play of buying groceries helps kids learn social and language skills, quantity and value, to make choices and problem solving.

Set Up an old bookshelf with a toy cash register and toy shopping cart.

Collect old magazines, cereal boxes, clean milk cartons and other empty containers; play money and imitation fruit and vegetables (can be made with paper-mâché). You will also need bags and price tags for items.

The shop can expand its inventory with toys, clothing, or even a cafe. The limit is your child's imagination.

Pretend play

Pretend shopping

Pretend shop