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By Nancy Blakey
For a different kind of birthday celebration, have a party under the stars. There are many advantages to an outdoor party: there is space for children’s energy to unfold, there are fewer concerns about mess, and the dark offers a place of mystery and adventure. To help make this a party to remember, involve your child as much as possible with all the preparations.
Camp-Out Invitations
what you will need:
• Squeeze lights on a key chain (available at the hardware store) one per child
• plain 3” x 5” cards
• paper punch
• small padded envelopes
Have your child help to write the details of the party on the card. Include a request for a sleeping bag, pillow, and to wear camping clothes. Punch a hole in a corner of the card and string it through the key chain with the squeeze light. Address the envelope and place the invitation inside.
Decorations
what you will need:
• tents to accommodate guests
• a flashlight for each child (these are party favours to take home)
• reflective strips (available at the hardware store)
• scissors
• construction paper
• felt tipped pens
Set up the tents in your back yard. Now for the decorations! Make animal faces on the construction paper with the felt tips. Next, cut eyes for the faces from the reflective tape and stick into place. Hang the faces on the fence, in bushes, or or on a tree. When a flashlight hits the eyes after dark, they will reflect like real animals. Or you can paint glowing eyes on with glow-in-the-dark paint (available at your hardware store.)
Games and Activities
Blind Man Hike
(this is a good warm-up game before it gets dark. Make sure your leader is attentive!): what you will need:
• rope approximately 15 to 20 feet (a long jump rope works well)
• blindfolds for each of the participants
Space people evenly along the rope and blindfold them (younger kids may want to close their eyes instead of being blindfolded). The leader is not blindfolded. Each person holds the rope with one or both hands, then the leader slowly pulls the rope and leads everyone around, over, and through various obstacles, calling out instructions such as ‘step up’, or duck under’, when necessary. Take turns being the leader.
Night Tag
what you will need:
• flashlight for the person who is IT
• laundry basket with a ball, beanbag, or a small object in it
The object of the game is for the players to retrieve the ball from the laundry basket. The person who is IT can freeze the players with one bolt of light from the flashlight. The person who is frozen can be freed by the touch of another player. The first person to retrieve the ball is IT next.
Shoe Snarl
Have everyone remove their shoes and place them in a pile. Stir and mix the shoes up like a big tossed salad. Gather in a circle around the pile. On the count of three have the children try and find their shoes. The first person to get both shoes on and tied wins.
Night Visitors
This is a nice bridge to bedtime after the crazy energy of Shoe Snarl and Night Tag. Many insects are attracted to light, and the children can inspect them closely with their magnifying glasses (a take home party favour with the flash light).
What you will need:
• a large flat white sheet
• magnifying glass per child
• flashlight per child
Hang the sheet from a clothesline, tree, or drape it around a shrub. Shine the flashlights onto the sheet to attract insects. Have the kids take turns inspecting the bugs with their magnifying glasses. Count how many different kinds of night visitors you have.
Food
Build a Banana Split It is a kid’s dream to make his or her own ice cream concoction from the ground up! This is a sure hit!
What you will need:
Cans of whipping cream, vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream, bananas (peeled and split down the centre), chopped nuts, chocolate and strawberry syrup, marshmallow, cream,
crumbled chocolate cookies, M & M’s
Spread all the banana split makings on a picnic table and provide big bowls, spoons, scoops, and plenty of napkins. Invite the kids to begin.
Breakfast Buffet
Breakfast the next morning is a snap with this buffet. Each child can eat when she is ready and help herself.
What you will need:
A variety of breakfast cereals and granola, individual yogurts, milk, orange juice, cut up fruits, cut up pastries and toast
Set out the breakfast buffet on the picnic table. Provide bowls, small plates, juice glasses and napkins.
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Fed Up DVD
Fed Up studies the effects of food additives and chemicals on children's behaviour.
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Gentle Birth Gentle Mothering - The wisdom and science of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth and parenting.
By Dr Sarah Buckley
So many women seek a natural birth and this book will help you understand what it means for you. From Reclaiming your Birthright to Yoga and Motherhood, this book is a series of 26 articles, 7 of which are on natural parenting topics
Price: $ 41.00
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