Virtual Sports and Recreation Activities

Description: Mix the dish soap and corn starch together as best as you can for about 10 seconds. Once it becomes difficult to stir, get your hands in there! Work the putty until all of the ingredients in the bowl are combined thoroughly. This is when you’ll see the putty start to come together.
TIP: because dish soap formulas can vary, it’s ok if you need to add a little more. If the putty is entirely too dry, add a tiny bit more dish soap to it. Or, if the putty is too runny, add a tiny bit more corn starch to it. After adding more of either ingredient, mix the putty by hand for a few moments. Just a little extra of either ingredient is all it takes:

• 1.5 tablespoons of dish soap
• 2 tablespoons of corn starch

Description: Fill a balloon with baking soda and carefully stretch it over the opening of a bottle filled half way with vinegar. (Try to avoid having the baking soda fall in the bottle while fastening the balloon).

Materials needed

• 2-3 Tablespoons of Baking Soda
• Vinegar
• Small bottle

Description: Punch 4 holes in the top of the plastic cups, just under the rim equal distance apart (approximately). Cut one plastic kitchen garbage bag into a 14-inch square. Cut four 14-inch lengths of string for each parachute. Gather a corner of the plastic square and tie one length of string to it, leaving only a small tail. (Repeat this with the other four corners.) Tie each string to a different hole on the cup. (TIP: Try to keep the tails all the same length so you don’t get a lopsided parachute.)

Materials needed:

• Disposable plastic (or paper) cup
• Plastic garbage bag
• String
• Hole puncher
• Tape Measure

Description : Pour some paint into a container and mix it with a little water to make it runny. (Pour each color you will be using in different containers). Pour one color paint onto a piece of thick paper. Then, add another color right beside it. The paints will blend into each other a little. Hold a straw over the paint and blow. The paint should start to spread across the paper. Keep blowing the paint to make a monster shape. Use the end of the straw to drag the paint to make stalks for eyes. Drag arms and legs, too. Draw eyes and a mouth on your monster when the paint is dry.

Materials needed:

• White paper
• Different color paint
• Straw
• Crayons

Description: Squirt shaving cream all over the baking sheet. Spread the shaving cream all over the baking sheet in a thick, smooth layer. Drip the food coloring and/or liquid watercolors all over the shaving cream. Take your skewer or chopstick, and swirl the color through the shaving cream. (The more color swirls you have in your shaving cream, the more “marbled” your paper will turn out.) Gently press the paper into the surface of the shaving cream, and leave it for a half-minute or so. Lift your paper out of the shaving cream and scrape the credit card over the surface of the paper to remove the shaving cream. (You can give it an extra wipe with a paper towel to get any last traces
of shaving cream off).

Description: Make 2 rows of chairs with the backs facing each other. (Chairs are a great option because their backs provide a high fort ceiling.)
Place blankets and pillows on the floor of the fort to make it comfortable. Drape a sheet or blanket over the furniture pieces. Secure the blankets with heavy objects or clothespins.

Description: Write numbers or letters (3 x) on a tube of toilet paper/hand paper and on the stickers. Have the child peel off the number, say it out loud, and stick it on the corresponding number on the tube.

Variations:

• Draw Big dots and child matches a sticker to a dot (younger age)
• Colors- draw circles with red, yellow, blue, green marker and child can match stickers to corresponding color.
• Match uppercase, lowercase, or upper to lower.
• Shapes
• Sight words
• Letter families
• Math equations (answers on dot stickers)

Description: Trace the lid of a play-doh container with a sharpie to make 9 circles, label the circles with the colors you will be mixing. This will make it more clear to your child.
Roll little balls of play-doh for each circle ex: red in the 1st, yellow in the 2nd and then a little bit of both red and yellow in the 3rd so your child can mix them together. Before mixing you can ask the child to predict what they think will happen.

Description:
1. Create a simple decoder for the kids to use: Line up the alphabet to the numbers so that A=1, Z=26, etc. This will help kids practice one to one correspondence. In other words, CAT would be written 3-1-20.
2. Second step will be to create codes for your child to uncover.
Option 1: Simple words and numbers
Option 2: If you want to make it more difficult, you can write the codes down with Additions, subtractions or multiples.
Option 3: Create several messages for your child to decode, and create a fun scavenger hunt around the house.
(Create coded messages: “Look behind your bed” with series of clues at each destination, have your child decoded each clue, which will lead them to another coded clue, and so on until they reach the final destination.)

Decoder :