50 Things All Kids Should Do Before They're 12 (daughter, New York, Rhode Island)
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Race leaf boats in a creek
Know how to do a cartwheel or handstand
Blow a soap bubble bigger than your head
Be in a parade
Chase fireflies at dusk
Watch a sunrise
"Play" with echoes in a canyon
Learn the names of flowers or birds you see in your yard
Make a whistle out of grass or (I never could do this) a raisin box
Wish upon a dandelion
Catch some good air on a snow saucer (more fun than sleds IMO but you can't steer so well)
Plant a tree
Learn basic origami (crane, box, "cootie catcher")
Go barefoot all weekend
Great additions.
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Originally Posted by hypocore
I do have to say though that #16 needs to be removed from the list as that is one very dangerous activity unless you simply cover someone with sand instead of actually burying them.
There is a lot of overlap between this list and a great book "50 Dangerous Things (you should let your children do)", some of the ideas are a bit risky, and some are cool. My favorites were (obviously all should be undertaken safely):
boil water in a paper cup
spend an hour blindfolded
take apart a broken appliance
put your hand out of the car window when driving above 45mph
lick a 9 volt battery
My own additions:
The mentos/coca-cola volcano
crushing a can using heating/cooling
Hey, conkers-experts? If the conker is on a string and you try to smash the other kid's conker with it, how do kids' hands get beat up? Maybe I need a watch a video.
Hey, conkers-experts? If the conker is on a string and you try to smash the other kid's conker with it, how do kids' hands get beat up? Maybe I need a watch a video.
Because the other kid's aim isn't any good and they whack your hand rather than the conker. I speak from experience!
In North America Conkers currently has no official status or competitions. Its popularity has surely declined, but it is not thought to be an extinct game. It was played during the late 1940s and early 1950s in New York in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, and in the 1950s and early 1960s in the Amalgamated section of the Bronx and a winning chestnut was referred to as a "killer". It was also played in Queens, the upper West Side of Manhattan, in the Mohawk Valley area of upstate New York and in Westmount, Quebec and other English-speaking parts of Montreal into the 1970s. It was played in the Catholic areas of North Cambridge, MA in the late 1950s,and a winning chestnut was also labeled a "killer". It was being played in the 1960s in Rhode Island and into the early 1980s in Smithfield, RI. Conkers has also been popular with school children in Newfoundland.
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