Coming Up, 25 September – 10 October 2021 !!
Tuesday 28 September
1pm to 4pm – Ages 11-18yrs
BYO Gaming Device
FREE @ SevenUp Youth Centre Wynyard – Max 0428 534 641
Food and snacks provided – Bookings essential
Wednesday 29 September 1pm to 4pm – Ages 11-18yrs
BYO Shirt Tie dye
FREE @ SevenUp Youth Centre Wynyard – Max 0428 534 641
Food and snacks provided – Bookings essential
Thursday 30 September
1pm to 4pm – Ages 11-18yrs
Picnic & BBQ
FREE @ SevenUp Youth Centre Wynyard – Max 0428 534 641
Food and snacks provided – Bookings essential
Tuesday 5 October
1pm to 4pm – Ages 11-18yrs
Minute to Win It Competition
FREE @ SevenUp Youth Centre Wynyard – Max 0428 534 641
Food and snacks provided – Bookings essential
Wednesday 6 October
1pm to 4pm – Ages 11-18yrs
Picnic & BBQ
FREE @ SevenUp Youth Centre Wynyard – Max 0428 534 641
Food and snacks provided – Bookings essential
Thursday 7 October
Ages 11-18yrs
Movie Night
FREE @ SevenUp Youth Centre Wynyard – Max 0428 534 641
Food and snacks provided – Bookings essential
Thursday 30 September – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – Ages 13+
Come and learn how to build your own smart devices using the ‘Bit Link Internet of Things kit’ You will find out how to use sensors to detect things in the environment, how to program buttons and displays and how to create gadgets that solve problems using some electronics and a little bit of computer programming.
FREE @ Burnie Library – 64777 400. Bookings essential
Friday 1 October – 10am to 1pm – Ages 11-18yrs
Skateboarding at Wynyard Skate Park
FREE – Bookings essential: Jonathan 0418 787 126
Things to do at home
The floor is lava
Is a game where players pretend that the floor is made of lava and must avoid touching the ground. Players stay off the floor by standing on furniture, cushions or chairs.
Build a fort inside
Choose a location and start building, bed sheets, pillows, mattress or mattress topper (for the base of your fort), seat cushions (to use as building blocks for the walls of the fort), chairs (these will act as the skeleton of the fort), blankets (to place on top of mattress or mattress topper, more for comfort and snuggle factor), clothes pegs or binder clips (to create a door flap and build a less flimsy fort), tape, wooden dowels or a broomstick (to increase the height and sturdiness of the fort), heavy books (to keep the sheets in place), string lights (for decoration)
Make puppets and put on a puppet show
Find some old socks and draw on some eyes and nose and make a puppet, or make it out of paper bags or wooden cutlery.
Use a cardboard box and cut out a window and colour in or decorate box in ready for your puppet show.
Carboard city – boxes, toilet rolls
Supplies: a few small to medium sized cardboard boxes, toilet rolls, paper towel rolls, craft papers, sticky tape, markers, crayons, texters, glue stick, scissors
Turn the boxes inside out to create the bases for your buildings.
Draw brick patterns onto the boxes, add different shaped and sized windows and doors and then draw some people or animals on paper and glue in the windows and doors. Green up your city block with carboard trees add a cardboard road through your city
Now its time to start bringing your box city to life and tell some fun visual stories and create bits and pieces that will make the neighbourhood your own.
Collect and paint rocks
Supplies: smooth rocks, paint, small paint brushes
Collect some rocks and wash them and allow to dry.
Paint your rocks then allow time to dry – overnight is best
Simon says
One person is the leader and calls out the actions.
Everyone else must follow the leader and do the action, but only when Simon says.
Then the leader has to try and get everyone to do an action without saying Simon says. If someone does the action and the leader did not say Simon says, that person is out of the game. The leader can try to make things more difficult by speeding up the pace of calling out the actions.
Pictionary
Supplies: pad of paper, texter or marker, slips of paper with words written on them and a hat or a bowl to put these in.
If you are playing with little kids, easily illustrated nouns like sun or bear would probably be good. If you are playing with teens, throw in some abstract nouns like honour, some adjectives or verbs like upset or dance.
Divide your players into two teams, then players take turns silently drawing different things while their team tries to guess what the drawing is. Teams compete against each other to have the most guessed words and win the game.
Charades
Without spoken words, one person dramatically acts out each syllable of a word or phrase in order, while the rest of the group tries to guess.
Hide and seek
Choose one person to count to 20 with their eyes closed, while others go and hide. When finished counting yells “ready or not, here I come” and then attempts to find those who are hiding. The last player found is the winner.
Twenty question guessing game
One person (the thinker) starts the game by saying “I am thinking of something (or someone) that is…
The thinker then tells the other players the category they will guess from (try and choose something all players would know), for example:
- An animal
- A plant
- A food
- A household object
- An occupation
- An historical figure
- A famous actor
Then other players ask questions to see who can be the first to guess what the ‘thinker’ has in mind. Before trying to guess the exact answer, players ask questions to narrow down the possibilities.
The challenge is that the ‘thinker’ must answer truthfully, but will only answer yes or no (sometimes they may also give hints, if necessary).
If thinker says “I am thinking about an animal” players can ask:
- Is it brown
- Does it eat meat
- Is it bigger than a dog
The person who guessed the right answer is the winner of the round and will be the next ‘thinker’.
Freeze dance
Everyone dances as the music plays, when the music stops, each player must freeze immediately and hold that position until the music begins again.
Outdoors
Scavenger hunt
Write a list of items to find outdoors:
- Piece of bark/wood
- Spider web
- Fly, lady bird, dragon fly
- Snail
- Feather
- Leaves
- Bird
- Something prickly
- Smooth rock
- Flowers
- Ants
- Butterfly
- Grass
Head to West Beach, Guide Falls or Fern glade Reserve and explore
Write a list of things in nature to look for to play Nature Bingo. Can you find something…….
Make a kite then go fly it
https://www.my-best-kite.com/how-to-build-a-diamond-kite-s.html
Alphabetical Nature Walk
Write a list then try and find the items.
Camp in your backyard
- Get a run of the mill pop up tent, sleeping bags or bed rolls, a backpack and torch.
- Get kids to pack and bring everything they would need for a real overnight trip, this means PJs, change of clothes, toys, camera, compass, books, canteens, binoculars, drinks, snacks and food to BBQ.
- Put on your backpacks and hike around your neighbourhood, with the compass and map or even a GPS on your phone plot a course and see if your kids can navigate it. Pull out the binoculars and see which birds you can identify. Take nature samples by picking up leaves, flowers or rocks to analyse later. Take some photos along the way but be sure to be back at your campsite about an hour before sundown.
- Get the kids to help put up the tent, unroll sleeping bags and set up interior of tent – make sure you have everything you need to spend the night, this is a good time to make one last trip inside for any necessities you may have forgotten.
- Start the BBQ and cook and eat dinner. Ask the kids how they are enjoying their adventure with questions such as ‘what’s your favourite part so far?’ and ‘what are you looking forward to later?’ pick some favourite songs for the time-honoured tradition of singing around the campfire.
- Not a lot of sleeping happens, especially if you have more than one kid. Aim to keep them outside as long as possible, if they are cold, grab another blanket.
Make art from things you find in nature
Go for a walk in your backyard or park, bring treasures back in pockets and make art with, or inspired by nature. Try and draw your treasures on some paper, glue leaves or sticks together making a picture, colour in your treasures with paint
Look for bugs at the park or in your garden
Go for a walk and search for bugs, use a magnifying glass search for the small insects.
Build an obstacle course and time yourself
Ideas for obstacles:
- Draw a map of the obstacle course
- Water balloon pinatas – hang two or three balloons filled with water from string in the air and the kids must break one balloon before moving on.
- A water fill relay – a large bucket at one end, kids scoop up a cup of water and then run down and dump it into a plastic jug, they run back and forth scooping up water and dumping it again until jug is full of water.
- Lay some hula hoops on the ground in a circle, kids have to jump around the circle of hoops three times before moving on
- Have a water pistol filled with water, place three paper shapes in a tree/bush, kids have to squirt all three with water before moving on.
- Set up some goals and have the kids kick a ball three times to see if they can get it in the goals.
- Hang some balloons under a table and have the kids crawl through the balloon obstacle course
- Sit five buckets of water on the ground in a straight line and kids have to go as fast as they can, weaving in and out the buckets.
- Balance on a retaining wall
- Newspaper walk – kids are handed three sheets of newspaper and must place one beneath every step they take.
- To finish, kids sit on the grass, bend their knees, lean back and lock their elbows, then crabwalk as straight and as fast as they can to the finish line.
DIY percussion – use kitchen equipment and utensils
- Drums- grab some pots from the kitchen and turn them upside down.
- Wooden spoons – use these as drum sticks or just bang them together to make a noise
- Plastic bottles – fill bottles with sand, rice, pasta and tightly shut and shake
- Create your own musical instruments
Anything else?
Take your dog for a walk
Throw a frisbee in the park
Go fishing
Go on a bushwalk
Climb a tree
Fly a kite
Lie on grass and look up to the trees and clouds
Climb a mountain and look at the view
Go birdwatching
Go on a picnic at your local park
Water games- balloons, water pistols, floating toy boats in buckets
Ball games – piggy in the middle, catch, roll ball, poison ball, backyard soccer
Chalk drawing – outdoor chalk and draw on concrete
Wash toys
Paper planes – competition with family
Blow bubbles
Dinner picnic
Mud kitchen
Parachute play – wave a large sheet up and down
Musical daydreaming – play music, lie down and look at the clouds
Musical hoops – once music stops, stop dancing and stand inside hoops
Musical water play – ducks, boats, fish and sing nursery rhymes
Expressive dance – dances around with scarves, streamers, ribbons
Nature bingo – tick off a list
Alphabetical nature walk – find objects with names that start with each letter
Share your creative ideas with your friends 🙂