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Late-Winter Activity Packet

2021

Thank you for requesting this guided activity packet! We too, are sad about not being able

to share the enclosed experience with you. But, we would LOVE it if you’d share your

journey with us via social media at https://www.facebook.com/MKVermont/ using the

hashtag #vtmilitarykidsrock

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Paper Plate Tic-Tac-Toe https://bit.ly/paperplatetictactoe

Pillow Sumo https://bit.ly/pillowsumo

Laser Maze https://bit.ly/lasermazeathome

Be Creative with Play

Make your own laser maze! Learn how from Brassy Apple. https://bit.ly/lasermazeathome

Dad’s t-shirts and pillows were made for this Pillow Sumo. Check it out at All for the Boys. https://

bit.ly/pillowsumo

Create your own giant version of tic-tac-toe and play away. Learn with Play at Home has great

Be Creative with Drawing

Shadow Drawing is a fun way to create your own drawings…using your own toys. What will you

draw?

1. Gather your supplies. Paper, pencil, tape (if needed), crayons or markers, animal toy or toy of

your choice, scissors (if desired).

2. Place your paper on a flat surface in sunlight. Tape it down if there is a breeze.

3. Place your animal toy, or other object, at the end of the paper with the sun shining behind the

object to cast a shadow. (See photos)

4. Use your pencil to trace the outline of the shadow onto your paper.

5. Color your drawing. Be creative. It’s your own design!

6. Cut out your drawing, if you’d like. Maybe make a whole dinosaur world or race track of cars.

7. Take photos with your favorite shadow drawings.

Looking for more creative art ideas? Check out https://leftbraincraftbrain.com Shadow Drawing

ideas can be found at Simplemost https://bit.ly/shadowdrawing

This activity can

easily be done in a

window at home, or

anywhere there’s

sun!

Fitness Scavenger Hunt

Grab your running shoes and let’s go on a Fitness Scavenger Hunt. Time yourself to see how

fast to can check off the items below. Now challenge a sibling, parent, or caregiver to beat

your score!

Find a piece of mail

Touch every door know in the house one time

Find 3 red things in the house

Find 2 of your favorite items and bring them to the kitchen

Touch a plant (real or fake)

Touch the laundry soap

Speed walk to the front door and then to the back door

Give a family member a hug

Walk around the outside of your home

Do 5 jumping jacks in the living room

Count how many windows are in your home

Count how many trash cans are in your home

Find something in your home that makes you happy

Find something in your home that starts with the first letter of your first name

Find something in your home that starts with the last letter of your last name

Touch 3 light switches

Make your bed

Pick all of the stuff on your bedroom floor

Find 2 blue items in your home

Find 2 green items in your home

Walk into every room of your home and touch a piece of furniture

During the winter months, birds sometimes have trouble finding food. With this project, you can help

them find food and attract them to your yard for you to watch them in their natural habitat.

Use your creativity!

BREAD & PEANUT BUTTER

BIRD FEEDER

What you will need:

Bread Bird Seed

Peanut Butter

Cookie Cutters

Twine

Instructions:

1) Start by placing slices of bread on a cutting board.

Place the cookie cutter on the center of the bread.

Push the cookie cutter all the way through the bread to

cut out the shape of your bird feeder.

2) Poke a hole at the top of each cut-out. A straw

works best for this. This hole is where the twine will go

through, so you can hang your feeders outside.

Let the cut-outs dry on the cutting board overnight so

the bread can harden. Flip the bread over once, so

that both sides of the bread harden evenly.

3) Spread peanut butter on both sides of the bread cut

-outs. Roll the bread in birdseed until it is completely

coated. You may have to use the straw again to re-

move any peanut butter and bird seed that got inside

the holes.

Cut a piece of twine, string it through the hole in the

bread and tie it in a knot. You can hang it on trees or

places in your yard and watch as the birds come to

enjoy the snack! Source: www.simpleasthatblog.com

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Soften butter in microwave for 15 seconds

Add egg and flour

Add granulated sugar and brown sugar

Mix together

Add oats and chocolate chips

Mix in

Scoop out cookie dough with tablespoon and place on cookie

sheet (if using parchment paper-place parchment paper on cookie

sheet before cookie balls

Make sure to leave 2 inches between cookie balls to allow for

expansion

Place into preheated oven

Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until they are lightly brown

You can use the oven light to spy on their cooking progress!

Source: www.4-h.org

In this activity, you'll bake a batch of delicious Chocolate Chip cookies. You will discover

how even the smallest changes to ingredients can make a big difference when it comes to

baking.

What you will need: 1 stick Butter

1 Egg

1 cup Flour

1/2 cup packed Brown Sugar

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon Vanilla

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 cup Quick Cooking Rolled Oats

1 cup Chocolate Chips

1 Cookie sheet

1 Spatula

Parchment Paper (not necessary)

What to do:

Did you know? For cookies to reach the perfect

golden brown color, the minimum

temperature for sugar

caramelization is 356 degrees

Did you know? You can substitute baking powder

for baking soda to get a fluffier

cookie, because baking powder

produces more carbon dioxide

inside the cookie.

RESEARCH

HYPOTHESIS (Make a prediction/educated guess, what do you think the answer to the

question will be?)

EXPERIMENT (What materials did you use? What steps did you take?)

ANALYZE (Make observations. What happened in your experiment?)

CONCLUSION (Did you answer your question? What did you learn from your

experiment? If you didn’t answer your question, what can you do differently next time?)

I am curious about… Use the Scientific Method to answer a question that you are curious about!

(Ideas for topics and experiments are on the next page!)

SHARE! Great scientists will share their findings with their communities!

Please share this activity with your Child and Youth Program Coordinator through email or

social media! You can send a copy/photo of this worksheet, pictures, drawings, videos, or

anything to show the learning process and what you learned.

QUESTION

Walking Water

Materials:

Water, mason jars/clear cups, food

coloring (at least three different colors),

paper towels, stirrer, scissors, timer

(optional)

Procedure:

Fill the mason jars with water and add a

different color to each jar. If you use the

primary colors (red, yellow, and blue), you

should fill two jars with each color. Stir the

colored water. Cut strips of paper towels to

fit inside the mason jars. Place the paper

towel strips into the mason jars so that one

end is in one jar and the other end in the

next jar (as shown in the picture). Wait and

watch what happens. You will need a bit of

patience to see the water “walk.”

Find more ideas at: www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com Fizzing Colors

Materials: baking soda, white vinegar, medi-

cine dropper/syringe/spoon, food coloring,

baking sheet/messy craft mat

Procedure: Spread the baking soda all over

the baking sheet, shake to distribute evenly.

Next, drop food coloring all over the baking

soda (see photo). Add a drop of vinegar to

each colored spot. Watch what happens!

Find more fun activities here: www.happyhooligans.ca

Recycled Suspension Bridge

Materials:

Scissors, twine/string, tape, hole punch,

crayons, markers, pencils

Procedure: Gather recycled materials,

such as empty toilet paper rolls, cereal

boxes, any leftover materials you can

find! Challenge yourself to create a

suspension bridge using all of your

materials. You will also need a few toy

cars and boats to test out your design!

Keep adjusting your bridge until it can

hold the weight of the toy cars!

Learn more about suspension bridges

and get inspiration for other science

activities here:

www.leftbraincraftbrain.com

As we all know 2020 was a bit of a bust… Join

us in moving onto better times. Get it started

by figuring out what you’d like to accomplish

in the rest of 2021. A fun way to lay out your

goals for 2021 is through a vision board. A vi-

sion board is a visual representation of the

things you want to accomplish or acquire.

Having a vision board helps to keep you moti-

vated and focused to work toward your goals!

So, how do you make a vision board? Start

with thinking about what goals you’d like to

accomplish in 2021. Use the attached Goal

setting worksheet to work through the goals.

But, what if you don’t know what goals you

have? Or you’re unsure where to start, that’s

ok! Below are some questions that can help

spark some ideas:

Creating a Vision Board

What are some of your favorite

things?

What are your favorite activities,

or hobbies?

What makes you happy?

If you could choose a topic or

subject to study, what would

that be?

What kind of school experience

would you like to have?

If you could choose what kind of

school (college, university, or

technical training) if you

could go to, where would you

like to go?

What would you like to do when

you grow up?

Creating a Vision Board

If you could create your own business,

what would that be?

If you could design your dream life house/

car/spaceship, what would it look like?

How much money would you like to earn?

Do you have a dream vacation? Where

would that be?

What kind of friends would you like to

surround yourself with?

Do you want to learn a new skill? What

would that be?

What kind of sports would you like to do?

If you could have a special skill to help

people, what would that be?

Who do you admire that you would like to

meet in person?

What kind of difference do you want to make in this world?

Once you have finished this worksheet and identified your goals,

start gathering visual items that go along with your goals

What you will need:

Poster Board (any size)

Magazines and pictures that represent

your goals

Scissors

Crayons, markers, or colored pencils

Glue, glue sticks or tape

Poster board letters (optional)

Once you have all your supplies, let your

creativity run wild! Paste the pictures that go along

with your goals, write words of inspiration and encouragement to achieve your

goals.

Once you are done, hang it up where you can see it each day and

visualize accomplishing those goals!