GET OUT AND PLAY Tomorrow is ParticipACTION’s “Longest Day of Play”. Remember playing as a kid until the streetlights came on? Well it’s time to bring that back. ParticipACTION encourages families to clear their schedules and get outside and play! Here’s 24 things every Canadian child should do by the age of 12: 1. Experience total weightlessness at the top of a swing 2. Skip stones across water 3. Play leap frog 4. Hang upside down from a tree limb 5. Jump into water cold enough that it almost takes their breath away 6. Throw rocks or snowballs at a post from a distance until they get a bulls eye 7. Ride a bike with no hands 8. Paddle a canoe 9. Piggyback someone 10. Roll down a big hill 11. Try a sport that requires a helmet 12. Collect something in a forest 13. Make up a dance routine 14. Slide down something on a piece of cardboard 15. Build a fort 16. Hike somewhere for a picnic 17. Bury someone they love in the sand 18. Play outside in the rain 19. Jump in a pile of leaves 20. Make a snow angel 21. Fly a kite 22. Create an obstacle course 23. Swim in a lake or an ocean 24. Make up a game involving a ball
Posted on: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:15:02 +0000
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