What were some of your favorite ways of playing outdoors when you were a child?
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Ohh man hahahaha when I was a kid I use to gather up with my friends and play hide and seek all day, and when it was night we use to catch lighting bugs, ohh yeah and I use to collect the Ice cream sticks that had the figure of the "looney tunes" and if you got the one of "bugs bunny" you got a free ice cream... GREAT TIMES
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When I was a pre school teacher, we took an old sheet outside, and some tempra paint. You can either lay the sheet on the ground, and let kids walk through paint and on sheet, or hang it from a fence, and let them splatter paint all over it with a brush. They love it!!\nBody paint in the pool, sidewalk chalk, nature walks,plant a garden/flowers.\nYou can Google pre-school and it will list a ton of sights that have awesome ideas. One I used was perpetual pre-school.\nGood luck, and have fun!!
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I was 5 and looking at a neighbor's garden.  she had planted huge sunflowers.  i remember standing underneath them and looking up.  it was so beautiful, i still remember it 40 years later.  :)  (it reminds me of the painting by Monet.  the little child in the sunflower garden.)\n\nwhat is your fondest childhood memory?  :)\n\n\nluvs
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These sites might give you some ideas:\nhttp://www.wildlife.state.nc.us/pg10_OutdoorKids/pg10_about.htm\nhttp://travelwithkids.about.com/sitesearch.htm?terms=carolina&SUName=travelwithkids&TopNode=3908&type=1\nhttp://www.discoversouthcarolina.com/outdoor-activities/outdoor-activities-main.aspx\nhttp://www.historichendersonville.org/activities_family.htm
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on a swing as a child again
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Put a sprinkler, one that shoots a stream of water around in a circle, next to the trampoline. When the water comes around to you, try to dodge it. Of course you'll have to wait 'till it gets hot outside, but its lots of fun. Also, if you're playing with others, chose one person to be "it". They have to stay on the ground until they can tag someone with the ball. Or you can bounce the ball on the trampoline and see how long you can keep it on before it falls off. You can get pretty good at controlling the ball.
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Play with it like you did when you were 12.
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Walking my son back & forth to elementary school..I worked at\nthe same school as a substitute teacher so we would have the\nsame hours. Many a great conversation was had throughout\nthose years, lots of laughter and his holding my hand. Goodness,\nthat was almost 20 years ago...but the memory of such still makes me smile.
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I haven't done it since I was a kid...I loved it when I was little though.
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How about a board game, like Scrabble or Monopoly?\n\nOr are you looking for OUTDOOR things to do?  If so, then how about hide-n-go seek, or playground (swings, carousel, monkey bars, slides)?
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When we played baseball when I was a kid we didn't have actual baseballs but tennis balls were $0.25 at the Poppe Shop so we'd use those.\n\nOne day we were playing baseball in the field in my apartment complex. It was getting into the evening and I heard my mum call me for dinner. I handed my glove off to another kid who had shown up late and joked, "Don't hit me with the ball!" and ran off.\n\nI got almost to the other side of the field when I heard "LOOK OUT!". Just as I turned around BONK! The tennis/baseball bounced off the crown of my head and knocked me to the ground.\n\nAll I could do was lay there and laugh.
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Not just one year but childhood up to the age of 12.  Lived in a small Buckinghamshire village in the 1950's.  Didn't realise it then but we were cocooned in an idyllic carefree environment where we could roam freely with no worries and find out about life naturally.  We had rafts on the brook, learnt to swim in the pond, built trolleys from wood and old pram wheels, built tree houses.  We rode on farm tractors and trailers, made catapults, bows and arrows, pea shooters out of cow parsley.  Found out about relationships life and sex without magazines and Video's.  I was so lucky, it was another world but one I will never forget.
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i think so. when your a kid you can amuse yourself with a brick, some rope, and bubble gum. try doing that when your older!
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Stomp Stomp Stomp, Doing the yeti Stomp.\nWow my kids watch the Backyardigans a lot.
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defo cabbage patch kids i loved em lol god kid years lol \ni remember the garbage pale stickers too lol
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LMAO....Yes in my younger days a bunch of us use to pool hop around the neighborhood and we use to go naked and if someone would turn the lights on we would all wait for them to see us and then we would all bend over and slap our as*es and then take off back over the fence....It was fun at the time...Don't know if I could do it these days but we will see!!!!!!!
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Make the environment hand son and experiential. Make sure each kid has alot of choice in what they can do and always offer a variety of challenges. Group building and team activities work really well with this age group and they enjoy the bonding that things like a high wall or rope challenge bring.Putting the kids directly in a challenging situation will definately make them become creative and self-sufficient. Hiking and camping skills can be taught as well. \n\nteaching kids about local plants and animals can be done as well.\n\nHere are good outdoor therapy ideas:\n\nhttp://www.recreationtherapy.com/tx/txextrst.htm\n\nwww.outdoor-learning.org/horizons