>Get some friends together and make a cheerleading routine. If you need pompoms, make your own from plastic shopping bags. Smooth out the bag, then grab its bottom. Scrunch a bit of the bottom together in your hand to make a handle for your pompom. Roll tape around your handle. Using scissors, cut the rest
>Can you jump in the air and click your heels together? Give it a try. Make this a family activity: Everyone jump up and click your heels! This activity promotes coordination.
>You can make or decorate your own picture frame. If you are decorating one, find a frame (garage sales, dollar stores and second hand stores are good places to look for inexpensive frames) that you can paint, colour or decorate with markers or cover with cloth. Some ideas: Use paint or markers to color your
>Going to be spending some time in the car? Play the alphabet license plate game. Most license plates have numbers and letters. Watch license plates and ‘collect’ all the letters from the alphabet. Start by looking for the letter ‘a’. Once you have found that, go on to ‘b’, and on through the whole alphabet.
>Make your own musical instruments. An upside down pail can be a drum. A shoebox can be a guitar: stretch rubber bands over the opening. A flute can be made from an empty paper towel roll. What else can you make? These cymbals were made from the can lids from Boy Scout’s popcorn cans. A
>Do your parents need help? Would it help them to set the table? Hand them tools? Make this a family activity: Parents, kids love to help out. It’s a great way to spend time together, teach them about teamwork as well as give them a chance to talk about what’s on their mind. This activity
>Play marbles with a friend. Draw a circle about 2-3 feet wide in the dirt, on a sidewalk (with chalk), or on the carpet (with your finger). Each team (two teams) has different coloured marbles. Both teams place their small marbles in the circle, keeping their ‘shooter’ or big marble for shooting. Make a fist,
