Pet Games, Nature Mandalas and other activities

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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?