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Fourth of July Activities!
- Patria Lincoln Posted On May 22, 2019 | Social-Emotional Learning
Every year, Americans observe the Fourth of July, a holiday celebrating our country's independence. While the Fourth may look a bit different this year due to social distancing, there are still plenty of ways to have fun right at home.This year, make the most of your Fourth of July celebration and show a little patriotism, too, with our favorite traditional American games, like:
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Bobbing for Apples
This classic cool-down game is perfect for a hot, almost-summer celebration. Simply fill an oversized bowl or cooler with water, float some smallish-sized apples, and set the timer to see who can grab the most apples, using only their teeth, in 60 seconds.
2.Potato Sack Races
Since not many of us are buying our potatoes by the sack, you may want to opt for old pillow cases here. Designate a starting line and a finish line, line up your racers, and have each person step both feet into a pillowcase. The first racer to hop their way to the finish line wins.
3.Three-Legged Race
Turn the traditional Potato Sack Race into a team sport by assigning one pillow case to every two people. Players stand together, then step the leg closest to their partner into the case, holding the edge with their inside hands. Ready, set, run, with three legs instead of two!
4.Baseball Game
What’s more American than baseball? An impromptu baseball game adds a bit of patriotic pep to any summer party. Bring a tee for the kids and batter up!
5.Red, White, and Blue Tag
Divide your guests into three teams and tuck a 6”red, white, or blue streamer into the waist of their shorts. Call “ready, set, go” and all players race to collect one streamer of each color first!
6.Spoon Race
It takes a steady hand to win this old favorite! Break into teams, with half of each team’s players on either end of a start and finish line. Hand the first players at the starting line a hard boiled egg, balanced on a spoon. Blow the whistle and they’re off, racing toward the next player on their team at the finish line and passing the egg without dropping it, until the first team crosses the finish line, egg on spoon.
7.Beanbag Toss
Even if you don’t have your own corn hole game you can easily create a fun beanbag toss using bowls and buckets. Set them up at varying distances and take turns seeing who can get one beanbag in each target.
8.Limbo
Although limbo originated in Trinidad, Americans have embraced this back-breaking, body-bending move as our own. Designate two “holders”, line your guests up, then grab your broom and turn on the tunes, taking turns passing under the limbo stick, bellybutton first. Fall down and you’re out; lower the stick each time the whole line has made a pass until only one player is standing.
9.Neck to Neck
Really get to know your guests, up close and personal, with this touchy-feely game of pass the balloon. Gather your guests in a circle, then tuck a balloon under your chin. Turn to your neighbor and pass the balloon to their chin,without any hands. Continue until the balloon comes full circle.
10.Tug of War
Go mano a mano with your friends and family in a good old-fashioned game of tug of war! Grab a rope (knots are cheating!), divide into teams, set a center point, and... PULL! Tug back and forth until one team brings the other down, literally.
Happy Fourth of July!
First, mix up about 10-15 drops of food coloring with about a quarter cup of water. Be sure to stir it up.Grab one of your clear containers and fill it with warm tap water, about three quarters full. Take the shaving cream – this is the big hit with the kids – and create a dense mound of it on top, simulating a cloud. Yes, you want the shaving cream touching the water. The water is acting like the Earth’s warm, wet atmosphere, similar to conditions when it rains.Using your dropper, extract up some of your food coloring/water solution, and begin to drop over the shaving cream cloud.
After a few drops, your child will notice that not much is happening. But as you begin to add more and more drops, the “cloud” becomes saturated. This is the same phenomenon that makes rain clouds occur – when water droplets become heavy enough in a cloud, they fall. Looks like a brewing storm from below!
Experiment with different colors, as well as different shaped containers.
What about different colors all the same container? The same results, just a bit more muddled!
Lastly, try adding shaving cream atop water that is already colored. You’ll get a beautiful mix. Creating a rainstorm in a jar will keep kids fascinated, but more importantly, asking great questions about weather! Learning is Where We Play:
