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In spring and summer kids can enjoy lots of activities,
both outdoors and indoors. With pets, without pets, with family, with friends,
in the garden, at the park - oh this list can be long.
3 activities
you can enjoy with your pet:
1. Photograph
your pet
2. If it's an
animal you can run around with, play hide and seek in the yard or at the park.
3. Dress your
pet or it's container.
3 pet-related
activities without pets:
1. Play pet games.
2. Play with
your pretend pets.
3. Draw an imaginary pet.
3 activities
with family:
1. Play board
games.
2. Have a
picnic.
3. Take each
other's photographs and make a collage.
3 activities
with friends:
1. Divide
into teams and make scavenger hunts for each other.
2. Cook up
something and invite your parents.
3. Get some
paint and get permission to paint an old section of some wall or find an old
'thing' to paint.
3 activities
in the garden:
1. Plant
quick growing vegetables.flower.
2. Sprout some
seeds in an empty eggshell filled with damp cotton. Pain the eggs with faces.
The sprouts will look like hair!
3. Gather
leaves, twigs and flowers - create a pretty nature
mandala.
3 activities
at the park:
1. Take turns
to call out a spot in the park and race to get there.
2. Find new
ways to play with familiar equipment.
3. Do some tree-spotting.
Can you think
of other types of activities?
