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KidActivities
List of wonderful activities we did as kids (and possibly still do!)
| # | Content | Link | Section | Status | Visibility | Source |
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| 1 | Hot Wheels | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 2 | Darda Cars pull back with loops | www.youtube.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 3 | Tech decks finger skateboards | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 4 | Bubble machine |
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| 5 | Blowing Bubbles | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 6 | Labyrinth | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 7 | Toy sailboat | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 8 | Whoopie cushions | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 9 | Big books e.g. Big Bird’s Big Book | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 10 | Duplos | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 11 | Rokenbok construction system #awesome | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 12 | Toy Tools #jacobMemory Cutting the foam sharp corner guard with the little red saw and toy tools. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 13 | Toy Story- style toys/play. Theatre/pretend play | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 14 | Electric trains | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 15 | Spirograph | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 16 | “Water Machines”: Take PVC pipes and a hose to create structures that squirt water out in distant places (ask Jacob) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 17 | Whack – fighting game with Poi balls. Making cardboard shields | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 18 | 3-D TicTacToe | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 19 | Foosball | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 20 | Ping-pong.Pinball. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 21 | Pool table | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 22 | Slackline? | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 23 | Pull propeller spinners | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 24 | Klutz Kids Shenanigans book | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 25 | Klutz book of knots | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 26 | Nerf basketball hoop | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 27 | Magnets and iron filings | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 28 | Knex | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 29 | Brio trains | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 30 | Hot Wheels | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 31 | Darda Cars | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 32 | Spy devices— e.g. invisible ink lemon juice | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 33 | Bridge building contest in elementary school with paper clips and straws | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 34 | Egg drop contest w construction paper | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 35 | Other marble tracks and marble machine devices, e.g. german | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 36 | Balance boards e.g. indo board, or easier ones | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 37 | Cooking desserts with mom #jacobMemory | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 38 | Hammering colored wood pegs into Styrofoam in preschool | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 39 | Woodshop crafting using the crankable drill, with class in preschool | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 40 | Ceiling star projector. Glow in the dark stars and planets/stickers | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 41 | Building a trebuchet | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 42 | building a rube goldberg contraption (incl from Klutz Kids’ shenanigans book) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 43 | “Wire tracks” / electronics | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 44 | Balloon twisting | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 45 | ------ | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 46 | #pencilAndPaperGame #fun Gomoku and variants, e.g. Neopets Cellblock (10x10) | www.neopets.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 47 | Big tinker toys | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 48 | Tinker toys | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 49 | Wooden blocks – the colored ones and the castle ones | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 50 | The marble blocks that fit together and could form a marble track | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 51 | Rokenbok construction system #awesome | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 52 | The little suction cup ball getting stuck on windows close to the ceiling and needing to build the tinker toy device to get it list | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 53 | Indoor Black and blue flying foam plane | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 54 | The paper airplane game #KidActivity | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 55 | Lego racers 2 slammers | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 56 | Beyblades (spinning tops with pull-start wire) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 57 | Tin can telephone/Piezoelectric telephone | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 58 | Air snare | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 59 | Kids shenanigans book, building a rube goldberg contraption | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 60 | Skill tester | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 61 | Blocking balls with tinkertoy bat while bouncing on couch | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 62 | Microscope / Digital Microscope | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 63 | Mag glass? | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 64 | Telescope | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 65 | Fresnel lens? (careful w fire safety) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 66 | Watercolor, pastels | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 67 | Making things out of papier-mâché and sculptures | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 68 | Tiddlywinks, marbles, lawn darts | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 69 | Bocce ball | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 70 | Wooden animals | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 71 | Puzzle boxes — making them out of Legos, having ones made out of wood that contain secret stashes | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 72 | Metal puzzles in OT. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 73 | Silly putty | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 74 | Bouncy balls | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 75 | Periscope | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 76 | Dry ice hockey | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 77 | Lego soccer | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 78 | Beanbag Toss | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 79 | Slingshot – shooting at target | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 80 | Sling? | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 81 | drawer drum | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 82 | rainstick | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 83 | music maker | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 84 | wooden pipes | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 85 | Weaving, knitting, lego loom, rubbing paper until it becomes a different texture, fuzzy like cloth. Construction paper, | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 86 | egg drop contest | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 87 | Little spiky ball toy that makes sounds | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 88 | Nerf basketball hoop | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 89 | Skateboard ramp in the backyard - sledding and building slide ramps. Digging tunnels in the sand at the playground and at the beach | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 90 | Playing in the creek by Curt’s cabin and watching the little boats go down the stream and the sticks go down the stream and the water striders | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 91 | Toy boat contest in acting in second grade | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 92 | Singing ding dong ding dong | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 93 | building a pressure sensing mat #spyDevice | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 94 | Model Rockets– science adventure camp. Colloids corn starch Jell-O. Making Jell-O. Fruit roll ups at Chris Ozuna house. Bicycle with training wheels | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 95 | Slip and slide | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 96 | Water balloons | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 97 | Cool sprinklers | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 98 | Making lanyards at soccer camp #summerCamp | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 99 | Making dream catchers | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 100 | Making bows and arrows with a stick and string | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 101 | The wooden block or whatever it was pretending to have a do they have a steering wheel and you could pretend to be a Ship. Playing pretend | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 102 | London bridges falling down game. One is silver and the other gold song | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 103 | Using jumprope and trying to walk a tight rope at moms and accidentally breaking the snow globe. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 104 | Jumping rope | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 105 | Pogo stick | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 106 | Maglev floating globe | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 107 | Shadow games and shadow puppets. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 108 | Marionette | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 109 | What did I do at after school care in kindergarten? Besides making stickers | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 110 | Power Rangers stickers putting them on the dresser. Sticker I put on the bathroom inner door | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 111 | Toilet potty targets | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 112 | nested colored cups toy | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 113 | Russian dolls | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 114 | Hat tricks | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 115 | Tossing and spinning pizza dough/fake pizza dough | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 116 | Yoyos | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 117 | Luna Sticks | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 118 | ?Cup stacking | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 119 | 52 games chest inventing a flip chip. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 120 | Inventing card games on the camping trip. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 121 | The little wind up magnetic fishing game | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 122 | The taller blue cardboard game where are you dipped in and catch fish. Fishin fun | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 123 | Wind up walking toys that shook hands | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 124 | Wind chimes. Making a key rack. Making construction paper things with moving parts with Brad's | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 125 | Magnetic gears on the fridge. The green based gear toy | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 126 | Magnetic words on the fridge | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 127 | Trike racing around – later, electric scooter with JP | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 128 | Popup cards. Making pop-ups books | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 129 | Folding paper and cutting it in a few places to make cool snowflake patterns | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 131 | Inventing solitaire card game | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 132 | Battleship #game | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 133 | Fighting Toys | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 134 | *?Fighting laser RC tanks. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 135 | Manas Bionicle. Cyberslam | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 136 | Finding a sand pyramid on the beach and thinking there were “mini-Egyptians”. Building sand pyramids | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 137 | Mud ball “recipe” at beach | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 138 | *The little engine that could #ChildrensBook | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 139 | Weight-based coin sorter | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 140 | Robie robot coin bank | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 141 | Toy story sorts of toys and play | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 142 | Being an inventor Bed maker | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 143 | *telling The Story with dad | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 144 | Making dioramas | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 145 | Making gingerbread houses and things out of food | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 146 | Planting and growing seed | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 147 | Topiaries. Chia pets | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 149 | Science Kits | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 150 | Mystery roller, gushing can | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 151 | Color filters to reveal hidden message. UV light to review hidden message. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 152 | Pinwheels. Nodding Bird solar sculpture in the garden | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 153 | Garden in a bottle #Cool #buy? ? Building the bridge to nowhere jumping dynamic from crash bandicoot | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 154 | Toy miniature golf, having to whack the little baseball off that keychain with the Lego golf ball whacker in a course. Made out of Legos. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 155 | Ping pong popper – klutz crazy action contraptions book | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 156 | Parachute toys – parachute army man | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 157 | Remote control sailboat racing (e.g. at Disney). String controlled sailboat racing | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 158 | Charge up electric cars little toys. Even cooler was the chargeup electric skateboarder | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 159 | Cracking pinenuts | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 160 | Coconuts | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 161 | Dyson 44 exp #KidActivity | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 162 | Baking - healthy muffins and cookies | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 163 | Paint | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 164 | Paint In the tub | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 165 | Lion king type videos | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 166 | Get outdoors on a bike | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 167 | Fort building couch cushions blankets | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 168 | Beach — Shannon? | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 169 | Half a day — paints bed time | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 170 | Have her Read books | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 171 | School | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 172 | Blowing Bubbles. Blowing Giant Bubbles | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 173 | Draw hopscotch on concrete - | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 174 | 4 square | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 175 | Soccer | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 176 | Get goals | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 177 | Pillow fights | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 178 | Kids yoga class | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 179 | Metal puzzles | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 180 | Balance board | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 181 | Max t | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 182 | Nerf balls | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 183 | Making Pinwheels | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 184 | Making Popup Books | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 185 | Throwing stuff #KidActivity – balls, toys | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 186 | Going to the park with dad, playground, baseball, teeball, throwing a Vortex, or Aerobie Flying Ring, or Boomerang, or wind up airplane with aunt | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 187 | little suction cup ball | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 188 | Throwing stars (w suction cups) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 189 | Cardboard on Concrete Slides, e.g. at Golden Game Park | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 190 | Sliding on grass in third grade with Shoes | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 192 | What you are there to do is give them Key tips i'm things to look out for | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 193 | Start w kids energy | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 194 | Channel it | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 195 | @joshwhiton fully resourced #KidActivity | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 196 | @jacob What all did I have behind my chair? | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 197 | What did I do with Carson and Devon? Besides Diddy Kong racing | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 198 | When there is ubiquitous Internet will the Jamaicans kids still be running races all the time? And be the best athletes? | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 199 | Learning to program: https://logicbox.jahooma.com/ | logicbox.jahooma.com | — | — | inherit | — |
| 200 | Jahooma’s logic box is a great way to understand some of the fundamentals of programming in the context of a fun game! | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 201 | ~monet | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 202 | Labeled praise | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 203 | “Positive opposites” | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 204 | say what you expect the kid to do in the morning or whatever what's this day going to be like | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 205 | Rewards charts | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 206 | Coop game | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 207 | Emotional check in for the parent | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 208 | #Parenting alt parenting group | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 210 | Definition of revenge: To inflict punishment in return for (injury or insult) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 211 | So punishment and revenge…are the same thing? | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 214 | That’s not a choice at all. That’s do what I say, or lose. Either way, you do what I want you to do. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 216 | He responded, “But I’m so much littler than you and you scare me when you put me in a room all alone.” | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 220 | My new mantra became: | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 221 | Every undesirable behavior is a cry for an unmet need. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 222 | Every undesirable behavior is a cry for an unmet need. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 223 | Every undesirable behavior is a cry for an unmet need. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 224 | Almost every single time, that unmet need is connection. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 228 | You have to try it. It really, really works. | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 233 | Studies show that punishment actually increases aggression in children: | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 235 | (Published in Print: September 7, 2016, as Bullying the Bully: Why Punishment Doesn’t Work) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 242 | - Build from lego secondhand, freepieces | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 243 | - Music | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 244 | - Karate | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 245 | - Boosts agency | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 246 | - Also aikido | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 247 | - Sword Fencing (historical style) | — | — | — | inherit | — |
| 248 | - | — | — | — | inherit | — |