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Way Cool Games for Kids and Parents.................
The National Association for Sports and Physical Education recommends that school age children:
- Get 60 minutes or more of physical activity every day
- Avoid periods of inactivity of 2 hours or more
- Kids should not be sedentary for more than one hour unless they are sleeping.
Source: KidsHealth.org
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Going Green with Track Shack is Way Cool
How you can help recycle?
- Set out cans and bottles for neighborhood pickup, or exchange them for cash at a recycling center. Most community trash services will pick up your recycled bottles and cans.
- Choose rechargeable batteries, then recycle them when they die. You'd have to use hundreds of single-use batteries to equal the energy you'd get out of one rechargeable battery. Be sure to recycle all batteries to keep harmful metals from entering the environment.
- The next time you buy a new book to read, borrow it from the library or a friend instead. Sharing books is a great way to reduce waste and reuse materials.
- When you drink bottled water, recycle it. Look for the bins at the Track Shack races!
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Recycling Craft: Milk Carton Bird Feeder
Supplies:
1. Empty quart sized cardboard milk carton
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Scissors
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String or shoe laces
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Hole punch or pencil
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Bird seed
How to make it:
1. Have an adult help you cut a hole in the top of the bird feeder (milk carton). Make sure it’s big enough so a bird could come and sit and eat the seeds, but not too big or the carton will be unstable.
2. Cut a hole using the hole punch in the top of the milk carton and put a string through the hole.
3. Pull string through the hole (to make a handle) and tie a knot at the end of the string.
4. Fill the carton with bird seed until it reaches the top of the hole.
5. Hang the carton on a tree branch and watch the birds eat!
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Pick Pocket Tag
Number of Players: 3 or more
Time: 15 minutes
Put a strip of cloth in each player's back pocket. Have the players try to grab each other's strips without having their own strip taken. The player with the most cloth strips wins the game.
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Blind Snakes
Number of Players: 3 or more
Time: 15-20 minutes
Set up a number of sprinklers in between a starting line and a finish line. Have the kids try to run from one end to the other without getting sprayed. Have one of the kids control the faucet, turning it on and off at random. Award ribbons to the kids who play the longest without getting wet.
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Yard Basket Frisbee
1. Grab a Frisbee and make a basket out of anything in the yard (recycle bin, hula hoop, old laundry basket.)
2. Assign certain spots to be two, three, and four point areas.
3. Try to hit the baskets from those spots. If you’re on defense you can block throws and try to knock the Frisbee down. The first team or person to 21 points wins.
Minimum participation: 2
Recommended Play Time: 20 minutes
Ages: 5 and up
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Kick the Can
1.Find a can or bucket
2.The designated kicker kicks the can/bucket, covers his/her eyes, and counts to a fifty-- assuming your child can count that high; otherwise, the kicker can recite a favorite song or poem. The idea is to give the others a chance to hide.
3.At the end of the count, the kicker puts the can or bucket upright, then says,
“Ready or not, here I come!”
4.When the kicker finds someone, he or she says the hider’s name, and then must race the hider back to the can/bucket to kick it. If the kicker fails to reach the object before the hider kicks it, the game starts again. If the kicker succeeds, then that hider must stand near the can while the kicker seeks other children.
5.While this is happening, other hiders can risk their own capture to free a fellow hider by running up to the can and kicking it—before being spotted by the kicker. The captured players then go and hide again. And the game goes on.
Minimum participation: 3
Recommended playtime: 20 minutes
Ages: 4 and up
