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Nature Wristbands
Go on a nature walk and collect materials to create a wristband! On an outdoor walk, look for items that have fallen to the ground like leaves, flower petals, and sand to design and decorate the wristband. This activity helps children practice the act of discovery, an outlet that leads to creativity. 0
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Popsicle Stick Puzzle
Make a handmade puzzle using popsicle sticks, masking tape, paint, and markers. This activity helps children develop creative thinking skills through pattern recognition. 0
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How Slow Can You Go?
Compete in a slow race! Investigate how a toy car moves over different surfaces. Find the texture that creates the most friction and causes the toy car to travel the slowest down a ramp. This activity helps children learn flexibility and creative thinking skills. 0
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Roll on Through
Design, build, and test a ramp using cardboard and other household materials. Create a pathway for round objects to roll down the cardboard ramp. Incorporate the floor, stairs, countertops, or furniture into the ramp design. This activity helps children develop flexible thinking skills. 0
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Locomotion Commotion
Create a work of art using unconventional painting tools such as toy cars and wheels. Children dip toy cars and wheels into various colors of paint and roll them over a large sheet of white paper to create the base for the artwork. This activity helps children practice flexible thinking skills. 0
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What If? Animals!
Imagine a new creature, and use natural outdoor materials and clay to bring it to life! In this group activity, children flex their creative thinking and storytelling skills to create an animal and share it with others. Creating imaginary worlds can be predictive of creative potential. 0
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Walk the Talk
Act silly and walk across a room like a specific animal! This collaborative group activity allows children to see the world from a new perspective, which can spark creativity. 0
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Towel Transformation
Get creative with one of the less exciting items found around the house—towels. Use your imagination and some household supplies to turn an old towel into a creature! This activity helps children ask open-ended questions, while flexing their creative thinking skills. 0
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Cardboard Challenge
Using cardboard boxes of different sizes and shapes, construct a unique or new creation and then make up a narrative to go along with it. 0
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Petal Mandalas
Children will use flower petals and other colorful materials to create mandalas and different unique patterns. This activity provides an opportunity for early math learning about quantity, patterns, and shapes. 0
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Tech on the Go: Photography
Adults and children use a camera phone to experiment with photography and perspective. 0
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The Claw
Test the ability of various robotic arms for complete a range of tasks, then design and build your own. 0
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