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Mommy Camp once again; Any ideas?
Topic Started: Jul 9 2008, 06:35 PM (317 Views)
realeez
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This month my oldest has school from 9-12 and the younger 2 are at a backyard camp from 9:45-1 run by a mother in my neighbourhood and her 9-year-old daughter (mainly to give her dd something to do and have one of her own young kids in "camp") for the grand price of $2/day per kid. Meanwhile, everyone is home from 1 pm on and will all be home in August (was considering day camp but they would all rather be home and I like having them home too plus the cost factor). They will probably hang out with my mother or MIL while i work some of the days. Any ideas of fun crafts or games?
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sauls_mom
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can you do a craft thats multipart/multi day?
like research something to build (a birdhouse as an example)- figure out what they look like and why- then build them- then paint/decorate them?
or get some modeling clay and let the kids make a town or animals
or do some cool food projects
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The researching part and then building can be fun.

Crafts that continue over a few days can work well too. Usually those ones are the ones that ds1 invents - like I gave them scraps of patterned paper and a piece of card stock to make a scrapbook page. Meanwhile, he extended that to make an ABC booklet where he drew the letters and pics for each letter. He worked on it for 3 afternoons!

I think a trip to Michaels and Dollarama is in order!
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you are a wonderful mommy, I don't think I could manage without day camp... :clap
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realeez
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Thanks!
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What a great idea!

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Right now my 3yo is building a castle. The first day, we took a piece of corrugated cardboard from a big box, and we stuck toilet paper tube towers on it, with egg carton turrets, and we took a cardboard food box and cut a door and glued that on, plus we made a carboard wall with crenellations, and glued that on too. I figured that would be it, but each day we go down to the playroom he wants to add something - rocks near the door (more egg carton sections) people (pipe cleaners), a roof for the big hall (egg carton). He's very interested in keeping this going (a week, at least), so we keep adding to it. He's also decided he wants to make a construction site, and painted some paper green (kind of) and now is making vehicles (at least, that's what he says they are!). Besides the paint, and some poster board and pipe cleaners, everything else is recyclables, so the cost is really low.
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wow- pretty creative :)
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realeez- something we have been working on all summer so far is a veggie garden. We got the kids little shovels and everything and put them to work. When they get bored they can go play with other things outside (I always fill the kiddie pool up and we have the swing set). They have been learning about bugs, soil, the veggies and what it does for them, etc... it really provides a LOT of entertainment.
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