Step 1: Brainstorm 6 specific movements that would be fun, and slightly challenging to your child. Or choose from our list!* 

1. Jumping jack
2. Hop on one foot
3. Spin in a circle
4. Bunny hop
5. Banana split step (one foot in front of the other as far as you can go without putting hands on ground)
6. Crab walk (put your hands on the ground behind you and without letting your backside touch the ground walk on all fours)

    

More Examples: 

• Burpee (jump up, then crouch down, walk your hands out to a plank position, then walk your feet up to meet your hands and stand up)
• Backward Step*

   

Step 2: Write the six movements down on a piece of paper, assigning them each a number between 1-6. 

Step 3: Determine a Starting point in an area and mark it with tape or chalk. Then, count off 15-20 giant steps and mark a “Finish” line with the tape or chalk. 

Step 4: Roll the first die to see what movement* you get, and then roll the second die to see how many of those movements you must do in order to move toward the finish line.

For example: Rolling a #5 and a #6 would mean you take 6 Banana Split steps forward.

*Note: (some of the moves can create forward progress, some will keep you in the same position, and others could push your position back)

Step 1: Cut poster board into a (determine appropriate size here) rectangle/square 

Step 2: Draw a 2-inch border and cut out the inside to create a “frame”

Step 3: Mark off every 2 inches (or so) around the square

Step 4: Color OR glue the BLUE paint samples in each square arranging the colors from lightest to darkest around the frame. (Side A)

Step 5: Repeat on the backside with the GRAY grouping of colors. (Side B)

Step 6: Once dry, Hold the window up to the sky and find your color match! 

Step 7: Make an observation: Is today’s sky a bright clear blue (like a color on Side A?) A milky white? An Ominous dark gray (like a color on Side B?) 

Step 1: Cut one tube in half, length wise.

Step 2: Squeeze the roll so it becomes about half the diameter it was before and tape it in place.

Step 3: Make two holes (either using scissors or a hole punch depending on the shape of your stick) opposite each other a half inch from the end.

Step 4: Slide the pencil or stick all the way through the tube.

Step 5: Using the second tube, cut two slits into the end of the tube about ¼ inch deep and about ½ in apart on one side of the tube; Repeat the same process on the same end of the tube just across from the first two.

Step 6: Loop one rubber band through the slits on one side of the tube and let it hang. Then, repeat with another rubber band through the slits on the other side. (you’ll have two rubber bands hanging)

Step 7: Add a piece of tape over both slits to reinforce the cardboard where the rubber bands are attached.

Step 8: Slide the tube with the pencil/stick into the larger tube so that the pencil is at one end and the rubber bands are at the opposite.

Step 9: Loop each rubber band around the pencil.

Step 10: Hold the tube so that the pencil/stick is at the bottom and place a cotton ball inside the top.

Step 11: Hold your launcher pointing away from any person or animal and pull the pencil back about two inches… Aim & release to see your cotton ball fly!