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FRIDAY: After School Treats 

  

Here are fun, engaging, off-the-wall ideas for learning activities that a child can do at home after school, or in groups in an after-school setting, with or without a parent, babysitter or program staffer. Win them away from the TV and video games, and toward independent learning! 

 

 

·   Animals 

·   Art 

·   Building  

·   Creativity  

·   History  

·   Inventions  

·   Math  

·   Music  

·   Science  

·   Writing  

 

Topic: ANIMALS
      ------------------------------------------
Dogservation
      Watch man's best friend and write and draw what you see
Species Mix-Up
      What if you could mix up the traits and make a whole 'nother critter?
Topic: ART
      ------------------------------------------
Mini Tree House
      Make an itty bitty home for (imaginary) itty bitty folks!
Illustrated Geography
      What in the WORLD? Draw it for us!
YOU? On a Wheaties Box?
      Be a cereal hero and a breakfast big shot
Snow Sculpture
      It's cold, it's wet, but it's free: get art down cold!
Ice Art With Epsom Salt
      2/2/07
Heartstrings: A Valentine's Craft
      2/9/07
Topic: BUILDING
      ------------------------------------------
Igloos and Beyond
      Sample
Go Fly a Kite
      4/14/06
Milk Jug Igloo
      6/23/06
Topic: CREATIVITY
      ------------------------------------------
Thinkathon
      Sample
Trivia Bowl
      2/24/06
More Flakes For Your Trivia Bowl
      5/19/06
Original Giftwrap
      6/9/06
Veterans Day
      11/10/06
Popcorn Snowmen
      1/26/07
Chinese New Year Dragon Dance
      048
Chinese New Year Lantern
      049
Sock Puppets
      051
Topic: HISTORY
      ------------------------------------------
Why Not Be the Best in History?
      Sample
Birthday Buddies
      3/10/06
Wacky Military History
      5/5/06
Will Rogers: All-American Wit
      5/26/06
Patriotic Dates
      6/30/06
Time Trials: U.S. Map Puzzle
      7/7/06
Revolutions: When the People Fight Back
      10/20/06
A Modern-Day Mayflower
      11/17/06
African-American Hero Memory Game
      1/12/07
George Washington: One-Act Plays
      050
Topic: INVENTIONS
      ------------------------------------------
The Humble, But Fabulous, Paper Cup
      Sample
Email's Great-Grandfather: Samuel Morse and the Telegraph
      9/1/06
Topic: MATH
      ------------------------------------------
How Many Miles Per Gallon Do YOU Get?
      Sample
Sun-Earth Calculations
      2/17/06
Heart Attack
      3/3/06
When Math and Art Mix
      6/16/06
How Big's a Billion?
      9/29/06
Topic: MUSIC
      ------------------------------------------
Didgeridoo
      Sample
Orchard Music and Art
      10/6/06
Topic: SCIENCE
      ------------------------------------------
Bananarama
      Sample
For the Birds
      4/7/06
Grow Tomatoes For a Good Cause
      4/21/06
Hurricane Tracking
      9/8/06
Rainforest Frolic
      10/13/06
Topic: WRITING
      ------------------------------------------
What If Stuffed Animals Were Real?
      Sample
Writing Limericks
      3/17/06
Them's Fightin' Words
      4/28/06
Burma Shave
      6/2/06
Free Typing Lessons
      9/15/06
Latin One-Liners
      9/22/06
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