Things to do before you start school
The years before formal school are the time in your children’s lives when you can have the most influence. Set them free and encourage some healthy habits by focusing on doing these simple things. Full credit for the idea goes to the National Trust and their 50 things to do before you’re 11 & 3/4s.
The years before formal school are the time in your children’s lives when you can have the most influence. Set them free and encourage some healthy habits by focusing on doing these simple things. Full credit for the idea goes to the National Trust and their 50 things to do before you’re 11 & 3/4s.
Learn to hop
Build a den in a local park
Climb a tree
Play conkers
Play Pooh sticks
Squelch your bare feet in soft mud
Eat a meal in a den in your garden
Do a treasure hunt
Dance in summer rain, without a coat
Make mud pieces
Make your own perfume/potion
Take a neighbour something you’re baked, like a biscuit
Knead bread dough
Balanced along a low wall on a walk
Help start and put out a camp fire
Peeled a stick using a potato peeler
Post letter or card you’ve made yourself
Run a stick along railings on a walk
Made a sandcastle with a moat
Played boo with a baby
Painted your own face or body
Washed up cooking things
Learned to chop and prepare some fruit and vegetables
Toasted food over a fire, marshmallows, smores etc
When it’s sunny lie under a tree and look at the different greens of the leaves
Lift a log or a rock and hold the insects, worms, woodlice etc
Empty the dishwasher
Jump out after hiding in a pick of autumn leaves
Roll and run down hills, preferably whilst shouting ‘Weeeeeee’
Paint with your hands and feet
Regularly go for a walk of at least a mile
Eat and apple and blackberries straight from the tree or bush
Spend a whole day in fancy dress, you can be a superstar
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