Game and craft ideas??

Question

i am 12 years old and my best friend and i run a kids camp out of our backyards. this is to earn money for our own summer camp. our next theme is "let's dig it!" and i need game ides and craft ideas! please help me. thanks! the kids are ages 5-8.

Answer 1

make foil flowers!!! to do this you need to have them draw,color and cut a flower top. then you have the kids twist the botem of the flower top and that's when the foil comes in! give the kids each a piece of foil. have the kids twist it up into a foil stick. then you have them make a hole at the top of the foil to place the flower top in. then have them crunch the  top of the stick so the top stays. then before you know it you have a foil flower!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

hide and seek, tag...etc. anything that is like sports swim..drawing contest with some really cool prizes

Answer 3

A cool idea might be if you have a park with a sandbox nearby, you could bring the kids there and have a sand-castle building contest. Or (this might be gross, but little kids like it) get a small plastic box (like tupperware with a lid) and get some dirt and put some earthworms in there, they make burrows and stuff and the kids can see how worms live, and maybe after for a snack you could make mud pie (chocolate pudding with oreos and gummi worms) for a snack. hope this helps!

Answer 4

Create a teasure hunt game.  Make a map the kids can piece together with clues to go hunt for the buried treasure!  This works on reading skills, following directions, and map reading skills.  The treasure can be some inexpensive trinkets from the dollar store.

You can also discuss archaeology and digging for fossils or ancient ruins.  Dinosaurs are a big interest for kids of that age group.

Answer 5

1.Ask them what they want to do

2.Find some cheap(Not A Lot Of Money, But Still Fun) toys, and play with those

3.Play a restraunt game. Like someone's the waiter, chef, or customer

4. Ask them again

Answer 6

1.  You can take beads and make a chain.  Wire and beads doesn't cost much and you can also make handbands.  These are for the eight year olds.

2. You can also take cotton and stick it on a picture of a  body of a sheep (After Reading about a The lost sheep) or a bird.  You can get a picture of a dove and stick cotton.  

3. You can make bookmarks for books with thin, narrow bristol board strips and bore a hole at the top and place a bow on the top with thin ribbon with I love mummy and daddy and a love heart in the middle.  

4.  Stick various pictures on bristol board (thin card board) from magazines and make a collage. My favourite things on  top of the letter paper size the bristol board.

5.  Buy dry peas with a flat bottom and stick around an outline of a picture sketch.

6.  Painting a picture or drawing something they see.

7.  Act out storybook drama.  (The three little pigs) various ending.  Get a large bucket of water and let the wolf fall into it.

8.  Don't forget school work.  Give them 5-10 words to spell and have a spelling bee.  Give simple mathematical solutions. 3 grapes and three grapes are ? grapes.

9.  Tell horror stories, funny stories, folklore (the boy who cried wolf) adventure stories and happy endings ( mix it up) ask them to draw their favourite part

10.  Teach them poems you learnt In the heart of a seed or anyone you know.

11.  Take them for a walk allow them to play baseball, soca. tag

12.  Let them pretend to be quiet as a mouse or loud as an elephant( Movement education).  They are moving  

13.   Sing alongs Do you know the muffin man.

14.  Ask the kids to bring stuff like beads and string and cotton a paints.

15.  Always plan what you are doing two days ahead so you can tell them what to bring or what you have to shop for.

That's all I have,  if anything else come to mind I would give anther response

Answer 7

try a treasure hunt game

Answer 8

Beth's ideas are great!  You could also plant something.  Read a story about growing things, like Round the Garden and then let the kids plant some seeds.  Radishes sprout and grow quickly.  You could have the kids plant them in cups to take home with them.  Or you could have a "dinosaur dig".  Read a story about fossils and hide some plastic dinosaurs in the back yard.  Then let the kids search for the dinosaurs.  As soon as they find one or two, they could get a small prize, like M & M's or a balloon or a pencil and a small note pad.  This is a great project for you and your friend to work on!  Congratulations!  Keep it up!