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activity[1]="Garden"
description[1]="Plant flowers, fruit trees, herbs, or vegetables. Your child will learn science, responsibility and have fun!"

activity[2]="Snip-it"
description[2]="Give your child some old magazines or catalogs and some safe scissors. Watch them cut all day."

activity[3]="Diggin It"
description[3]="Send your child outside with a bucket and safe shovel. Shovelling snow, sand, dirt or rocks, it is all fun."

activity[4]="Sing"
description[4]="Turn up the radio and sing! Teach your child the music of the 70s, 80s, or 90s."

activity[5]="Play Catch"
description[5]="Throw different items (balloons, tennis balls) to your child. Roll balls to young children."

activity[6]="Sidewalk Chalk"
description[6]="Lay on the sidewalk and be outlined. Decorate your flat self."

activity[7]="Cardboard Boxes"
description[7]="Make towers, play houses, airplanes, trains, forts and more!"

activity[8]="Bubbles"
description[8]="Go outside and Blow Bubbles. Take turns chasing and popping them."

activity[9]="Masks"
description[9]="Make Masks from Paper bags, paper plates, foam, or anything on hand."

activity[10]="Cards"
description[10]="UNO, Crazy 8, Go Fish, Old Maid, Memory Match. Teach your child all these classic games."

activity[11]="Scavenger Hunt"
description[11]="Give your child a list of clues and send him out to find them. Clues can be simple or very vague."

activity[12]="Throw Rocks"
description[12]="Go to a pond, creek, or lake and throw rocks. Try to skip them or aim for different targets."

activity[13]="Bath Time"
description[13]="Bring kitchen utensils into the bath tub."

activity[14]="Office"
description[14]="Give your child Junk Mail, stickers, a calculator and pens. They will play office for hours."

activity[15]="Photography"
description[15]="Give your child a disposable camera or a digital camera and let them use their creativity. They may surprise you!"

activity[16]="Picnic"
description[16]="Make some sandwiches and eat them outside."

activity[17]="Cooking"
description[17]="Find age-appropriate recipes and let your child help in the kitchen."

activity[18]="Tag"
description[18]="How many versions of tag do you remember from your childhood? Teach the oldies to your children (freeze tag, tv tag, etc.)"

activity[19]="Write a Story"
description[19]="Younger children can write wiggle-worm sentences. Encourage older children to write chapter books -- the next Harry Potter or Magic Treehouse."

activity[20]="Charades"
description[20]="Toddlers can act out or guess their favorite animals. Older children will enjoy acting out movie titles."

activity[21]="Flashlight"
description[21]="Turn off the lights & make shadow puppets. Or get two flashlights and chase the light beams."

activity[22]="Wildlife"
description[22]="Feed the ducks, squirrels, birds, turtles or fish near you."

activity[23]="Abundance"
description[23]="Every day, have your children tell you what they are thankful for."

activity[24]="Dress Up"
description[24]="Let your children dress in your clothes."

activity[25]="Treats"
description[25]="Make cookies and decorate them like family members."

activity[26]="Dance"
description[26]="Turn up the music and Dance!"

activity[27]="Play Games"
description[27]="Teach your child all your favorite board games."

activity[28]="Journal"
description[28]="Get a notebook or diary and encourage your child to express their feelings with pictures and words."

activity[29]="Tea Party"
description[29]="Grab the stuffed animals and treat them to a delicious cup of imaginary tea."

activity[30]="Keep in Touch"
description[30]="Write a letter to Grandparents, Aunts or Uncles. Teach the importance of family."

activity[31]="I Spy"
description[31]="Come up with age-appropriate clues and let you child guess what you are thinking of."


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