Stuff For Kids To Do

Make a Paper Plate Face Mask

Develop fine motor skills and imagination.

To make a mask from a paper plate, cut eye holes in the plate and then decorate it with pencils, paint, or other ways that you can imagine. You can then attach a string or elastic band to hold it on your face.

Let's Play Hopscotch!

Hopscotch develops physical skills like balance and coordination.

Set Up The Game

1. Draw the Board: Use chalk or tape and create a hopscotch board with numbered squares. Usually, the board has 8 to 10 squares.

2. Choose an Object: Select something like a stone or a bean bag to toss onto the squares.

Game Rules

-Take Turns: Players take turns standing at the start/finish line.

-Toss the Object: The first player tosses the object onto square one without letting it touch the lines.

-Hop on the squares using one foot in single squares and both feet in double squares.
Avoid stepping on the lines or losing balance.

-On the way back, the player must pick up the object from the square it landed on.

-After completing square one, the player moves on to square two, and so on, until all squares are completed.

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Make Paper Planes and Race Them

Learn how to make paper planes and then have an air race in which players compete to see who can make their paper airplane fly the fastest and pass the finish line first.

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Origami: The art of paper folding

Origami is the art of paper folding that originated in Japan almost a thousand years ago.

There are many creative ideas for Origami and all you need to start is a piece of paper and a pair of scissors.

Ideas For Origami

1. Make a Book With Origami Pictures

A book with origami pictures

2, Make n Origami Greeting Card

Origami birthday card

A pop-out origami centre of card

3. Make an Origami Mobile.

Origami mobile

4. Make an Origami Wall Design

Origami wall design

5. Have an Origami Puppet Show

Origami puppet show

6. Make Origami Dolls

Origami dolls

7. Have an Origami Plane Race

Origami planes. Who has the fastest?

Click here for WikiHow's Origami tutorials

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Game: Who am I ?

Equipment: sticky post-it notes and pens.

One person writes the name of a famous person, or fictional character or job type on a post-it note for each person playing the game.

The post-it notes are then stuck onto each person's forehead or back, so that they cannot read what is on their own post-it note. All other players can read the note, but the person with the note cannot.

All players then walk about and ask each other yes/no questions about the attributes of the person or character, and others must answer truthfully.

For example, A mermaid might ask: " Do I have a tail?". The other person must answer "yes".

This can be adapted to any topic.

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Picture To Sentence Game

1. Everyone sits in a circle, with a pencil and piece of paper.

2. Everyone writes their name in small print at the top of the page. (keep it at the top as the paper will be folded)

3. Everyone starts by writing a sentence at the top of their paper.

4. Then, each person passes their paper to the person on the left.

5. Each person then draws a small picture (or series of pictures) to represent the sentence.

6. Each person then folds the paper so that the sentence is no longer visible.

7. Each person passes the paper to the left, with the picture visible.

8. Each person writes a sentence to describe the image(s) .

9. Then, the paper is again folded so that the picture is no longer visible.

Pass the paper to the left.

10. Continue alternately writing sentences and drawing pictures, covering up everything but the latest sentence or picture.

11. Repeat until you have your original piece of paper back.

Everyone can read their paper out aloud, or pass them around so everyone can see the drawings and sentences.

Example

The cat danced wearing a dress.

The cat thought she could fly like a bird.

Super Cat saved the town but realized he was scared of heights and was about to fall.

The fish is ready to eat the cat falling into the lake.

The Future-Telling Game: MASH

MASH, an acronym for: Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House, is a popular⁣ pen-and-paper ‌multiplayer game. Mash is usually played with 2 people, as only one player’s fortune can be told at each game.

Players come up with categories and options to fill in and take turns drawing spirals to determine their "magic number”, which they use to cross out options.

Players predict their future by crossing out options in different categories until one option is left in each category. Players continue crossing out options using their magic number until only one option remains in each category.

For e.g. You live in a shack with the king. You will be movie star, with a pet gorilla. You will live on the Moon.

How to Play:

Write "MASH" at the top of the page.
Choose your categories.
List 4 options for every category.
Find your magic number.
Strike out options until you're left with 1 result for each category.
Read out your results.

Let's Go!

Write MASH at the top of a piece of paper.1. Decide what you want the game to predict and list them as categories on your paper. For e.g. housing, car, spouse, job, pet(s), salary, first child’s name. Make sure to leave enough room under each category to write 4 selections.

The Future-Telling Game: MASH

2. Each player writes down their 4 answers for each category. There will be 2 things they want and 2 things they don't want. Write them in a column under the category title.

3. Player 2 then begins to draw a swirl on a separate piece of paper. Player 1 will say "Stop" at a time they choose after at least 3 seconds, and player 2 stops and draws a line through the swirl from the endpoint to the starting point. They then count how many times the swirl intercepts the line drawn. This is the magic number you’ll use in the next step to reduce your options.

Count how many times the swirl intercepts the line drawn. This is the magic number (Alternatively, player 2 will make tally marks instead of drawing a swirl. When player 1 says "Stop", player 2 stops drawing marks and counts them.

4. Start crossing off options using your magic number. Player 1 or 2 counts each item down the page (starting with the MASH), and crosses off the answer that they land on.

For instance, if four lines were counted in the swirl, every fourth answer is crossed off the list. This continues until there is only one item in each category. Each letter in the title is considered an answer and should be crossed off accordingly.

5. Keep counting, and every time you get to that magic number, cross out the option you landed on. When you get to the end of the categories, go back to the beginning.

When only one option is left in a category, this is Player 1's future. Repeat.

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