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activities 3.
Plan out a vegetable garden. Take a deck of cards and
Research the best types of Word games - make
remove all the picture
vegetables to plant depending little words from a big
cards. Then pull out two
on the weather. Make labels word; hangman.
number cards and subtract
for each of the seedlings and one from the other.
take care of them.
Cooking – reading
recipes and measuring
LEGO – Invent a new Lego toy - and ingredients; following
draw the plans of how you made it. steps in a procedure.
Make playdough – there
are many different cooked
and uncooked recipes. Design a new
Add glitter, colour, and Make indicator from red cabbage or rose petals
logo for your
essential oils to make it a school. and test if substances are acid or alkali.
multi-sensory experience.
Learn how to change a
car tyre and how to Draw the shape of the
check the oil in the car. moon each night at the Make a potato
Learn how to same time of night. battery – Chemical
use the washing and Electrical Energy.
machine. Take photos of
tessellations around
the home. Design your Learn how to do a monthly budget tracker.
own tessellation.
Write a letter to
yourself to open Work out 3
in 10 years. Measure the perimeter of Solve a
different ways to
Rubik’s
some rooms in the house get from your
Make a time capsule cube.
Learn and work out the area of house to the
about April and bury it in computer each room. store.
the garden (or hide it) and coding.
open it in 5 years’ time. Make an
instructi
video of onal
somethin
Make a stop-motion video using your toys you’re go g
od at.
as the actors. Use Duplo, Lego or building If you have baking
blocks to create two pairs of columns side by soda and vinegar -
Sort groceries in the pantry into
side and slide in a piece of white paper to create a volcano.
3 groups: less than 1kg, about
create a movie screen. Shine a torch behind and
1kg, more than 1kg (could do the
use figurines, dinosaurs, small objects to put on a
same with liquids: ml and L).
movie. Step it up by filming on a phone or iPad.
Older kids can use the software on the iPad or phone
Interview a parent about what
to cut this into a movie (adults can help younger kids
life was like growing up for them
to do the same).
– do a list of what is similar and
Do a search at what is different.
home and list items
Write out the number facts (times table)
shaped like a cube, a
you find the hardest. Time yourself and
rectangular prism
compare each day over a week.
and a sphere.
Learn the
Do a timeline of your life (in years).
“Walk like a…” game. Walk like a bear, crawl like a lizard, run names of the 5
Try to list one significant thing closest streets.
like a cheetah. Can be outdoors or up and down a hallway.
about each year (i.e. started kindy).
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