| Title: | Topics of Interest to Women |
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| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 30 1995 |
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My UU church is having a fall fair next month, and I promised I would help out. The first thing they asked me to do was come up with ideas for activities for the children who come..... I don't have a clue, but I figured there must be womannoters with some ideas! To give you an idea of what the situation is... The theme for the fair is "Mother Goose." There probably won't be lots of kids there at any one time. (I've never been to a church fair at this church before, but my guess is that there'll probably be anywhere from 1 to 10 children there at any given time throughout the day.) Activities could take place indoors or outdoors. Any ideas for fun stuff for kiddos who get dragged along to church fairs by their parents on nice fall Saturdays? Kathy
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| 386.1 | XCUSME::QUAYLE | i.e. Ann | Wed Sep 19 1990 09:16 | 4 | |
One idea: a storyteller.
aq
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| 386.2 | things we've done | VAXRT::WILLIAMS | Wed Sep 19 1990 10:36 | 9 | |
face painting
simple games
puppet show
glass blowing
HELPing with the fair (carrying things, selling things ...)
all tried and true (from Littleton FCU fair)
/s/ Jim WIlliams
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| 386.3 | BTOVT::THIGPEN_S | ridin' the Antelope Freeway | Wed Sep 19 1990 10:38 | 15 | |
bubbles
puppets - make them out of paper bags, aux materials are scissors,
colored paper, glue sticks, sequins, glitter, yarn, tape, etc
masks - same as puppets, but use bigger bags
play dough - send MAIL for homemade recipe (much cheaper than store
brand), not poisonous but salty. Make models of MG characters
(but expect lots of other themes)
mural, if you have access to enough paper -- tape sheets together,
or use the back of some listings (not For Internal Use Only!)
Use crayons, watercolors, washable markers, see puppets above,
and add collage elements
paper hats, sailboats, etc made from newspaper
check out the children's room of your library. Any children's room
Librarian should be able to point you to lots of activity books.
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| 386.4 | FDCV07::HSCOTT | Lynn Hanley-Scott | Wed Sep 19 1990 10:42 | 11 | |
Having just gone to family day at Tower Hill, Worcester Horticultural
Society's place in Boylston, I would strongly suggest bubble blowing as
an activity if it's a nice day. It should really be done outside,
especially for big bubbles. Make a mixture of 10 parts water, 1 part
Joy (or other dishwashing liquid) and 1/2 part corn syrup - put in big
basin, create your own bubble thingies with strings and straws, and let
them go at it. It was the big hit of the day!
Other suggestions, have them make small ornaments or items that they
can take home (vegetable people was one example this weekend).
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| 386.5 | it's early, but... | BTOVT::THIGPEN_S | ridin' the Antelope Freeway | Wed Sep 19 1990 10:47 | 5 |
just thought of another real fave rave:
carve pumpkins! you do the knife part.
or if that's too messy, just paint them with poster paint.
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| 386.6 | also parenting | TLE::RANDALL | living on another planet | Wed Sep 19 1990 12:35 | 4 |
There are some notes about kid's games in MRDATA::PARENTING that
might give you some ideas as well.
--bonnie
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| 386.7 | pointers | LYRIC::BOBBITT | water, wind, and stone | Wed Sep 19 1990 16:28 | 22 |
Yup - ideas can be found at:
PARENTING-V1
60 - picnic games for kids
96 - party games
285 - games?
PARENTING-V2
109 - birthday party ideas
1166 - need party game info
1187 - birthday party ideas
1702 - B-day party games?
PARENTING-V3
198 - looking for birthday party ideas
205 - picnic games for children - help!
PLEASE note that I didn't verify total content or age group
recommendations for the above - just picked them based on the topic
title...
-Jody
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| 386.8 | SANDS::MAXHAM | Snort when you laugh! | Fri Sep 21 1990 11:17 | 3 | |
Thanks, everyone, for your ideas and pointers! Kathy | |||||