Activity Ideas

(Under construction)
Handicrafts

- Calligraphy: Introducing it to kids
- Carving: Wood, Soap, Pumpkin
- Ceramics/pottery: ceramics lesson plans, Clay rose, Ceramic bird feeder, Clay leaves
- Charcoal drawing: Tutorials
- Cross-stitching: Free patterns 
- Embroidery: embroidery stitches, embroidered bookmark
- Finger painting: finger paint canvas (options are endless on this one), DIY paint recipes
- Gardening: Kids gardening (full of great activities and lesson plans)
- Knitting: simple knit square, Newbie knitting lessons, basic knit doll,
- Painting: 60+ painting ideas
- Drawing: drawing lessons (free video art lessons for kids)
- Quilting: History in Quilts (3-5 grade lesson), quilting with fractions and symmetry, quilting 101
- Recycled paper: make your own paper,
- Scrapbooking: migrant scrapbook (or choose another historical period/person/theme/family history), scrapbooks can be used as a learning journal for pretty much any subject.
- Sewing: Sewing projects for kids, Great list of sewing projects by sewing level
- Weaving: simple weaving crafts, (preparing the cattail for weaving)
- Woodworking: projects for kids, wooden toys woodcraft plans


Life skills

- Balancing a checkbook
- Basic self-defense: krav maga videosbasic self-defense moves
- Canning: 59 home canning recipes,
- CPR: American Heart Association
- Car maintenance: routine maintenance, checking car oil, changing a car tire, filling car tire with air
- Cooking: cookery skills by age, kids cooking activitiescooking with kidsreading a recipe
- Create a simple budget: worksheets, hands-on banking for kids,
- Doing hair: hair tutorials
- Doing laundry
- Driving a car: DMV driver's manual by stateDMV practice testsmore practice tests
- First Aid: teaching resources from the UK, safety videos for kids,
- Hang a picture 
- How to write a thank you letter: sample thank you letters
- How to wrap a present: wrap a gift 
- Ironing clothes
- Learn a new instrument: guitarrecorder (lesson plans)
- Learn how to swim 
- Learn a new language: DuolingoFree language learning app for kids
- Making a bed: a history of the mattressmaking a bed
- Making a reservation or appointment
- Mowing the lawn
- Order something at a restaurant 
- Pay a bill
- Plan a meal:
- Proper dining etiquette: setting the table, napkin etiquette, passing food, using utensils correctly, table manner tips
- Read a map: map skills lessons for elementary kids
- Shopping for food
- Typing: learn to typetyping games, typing tutorials
- Use a fire extinguisher: video on using a fire extinguisher 
- Write a check: writing check activity, middle school lesson plan on writing checks


Nature/ Primitive living Skills

- Animal tracking: tracking guide, nature tracking with pictures, all about tracking, animal tracks memory game
- Basket weaving (cattail, pine needle, willow branches)
- Build a fire
- Build a survival shelter
- Cook on an open fire
- Filter and purify water
- How to read a map and compass: geocaching,
- How to tell direction using stars or sun: find your direction with a stick, Field-expedient direction finding, No compass
- Knot tying: animated knot tying,
- Learn bird language: Bird voices, bird language basics, Language of birds, All About Birds
- Learn wild edibles: Edible weeds,
- Make a plant-based dye: Natural dyes, dyeing with onion skins,
- Making cordage: cordage making,
- Nature journaling: free nature journal pagesNature observation handouts
- Paddling and steering a canoe
- Safely use an ax
- Safely use a knife
- Set up a tent
- Setting a trap
- Selecting a safe campsite
- What to do in a (thunderstorm, blizzard, tornado, earthquake)

Virtual field trips

Buckingham palace
Colonial Williamsburg
Louvre museum in Paris
Smithsonian natural history museum
Anne Frank's house
Vatican museum
The White House
You can also go on Google maps, search for a location, and use the street view to explore

Live Webcams

Georgia aquarium
Monterey Bay aquarium
Houston zoo
San Diego zoo
Explore a variety of other webcams




No comments:

Post a Comment