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You Got This!
Late-Winter Activity Packet
2021
Thank you for requesting this guided activity packet! We too, are sad about not being able
to share the enclosed experience with you. But, we would LOVE it if you’d share your
journey with us via social media at https://www.facebook.com/MKVermont/ using the
hashtag #vtmilitarykidsrock
Not on social media? Send an email to brian.r.stoudnour.ctr@mail.mil
Be Creative with Drawing
Shadow Drawing is a fun way to create your own drawings…using your own toys. What will you
draw?
1. Gather your supplies. Paper, pencil, tape (if needed), crayons or markers, animal toy or toy of
your choice, scissors (if desired).
2. Place your paper on a flat surface in sunlight. Tape it down if there is a breeze.
3. Place your animal toy, or other object, at the end of the paper with the sun shining behind the
object to cast a shadow. (See photos)
4. Use your pencil to trace the outline of the shadow onto your paper.
5. Color your drawing. Be creative. It’s your own design!
6. Cut out your drawing, if you’d like. Maybe make a whole dinosaur world or race track of cars.
7. Take photos with your favorite shadow drawings.
Looking for more creative art ideas? Check out https://leftbraincraftbrain.com Shadow Drawing
ideas can be found at Simplemost https://bit.ly/shadowdrawing
This activity can
easily be done in a
window at home, or
anywhere there’s
sun!
Be Creative with Play
Make your own laser maze! Learn how from Brassy Apple. https://bit.ly/lasermazeathome
Dad’s t-shirts and pillows were made for this Pillow Sumo. Check it out at All for the Boys. https://
bit.ly/pillowsumo
Create your own giant version of tic-tac-toe and play away. Learn with Play at Home has great
Pillow Sumo Paper Plate Tic-Tac-Toe
https://bit.ly/pillowsumo https://bit.ly/paperplatetictactoe
Laser Maze
https://bit.ly/lasermazeathome
Fitness Scavenger Hunt
Grab your running shoes and let’s go on a Fitness Scavenger Hunt. Time yourself to see how
fast to can check off the items below. Now challenge a sibling, parent, or caregiver to beat
your score!
Find a piece of mail
Touch every door know in the house one time
Find 3 red things in the house
Find 2 of your favorite items and bring them to the kitchen
Touch a plant (real or fake)
Touch the laundry soap
Speed walk to the front door and then to the back door
Give a family member a hug
Walk around the outside of your home
Do 5 jumping jacks in the living room
Count how many windows are in your home
Count how many trash cans are in your home
Find something in your home that makes you happy
Find something in your home that starts with the first letter of your
first name
Find something in your home that starts with the last letter of your
last name
Touch 3 light switches
Make your bed
Pick all of the stuff on your bedroom floor
Find 2 blue items in your home
Find 2 green items in your home
Walk into every room of your home and touch a piece of furniture
BREAD & PEANUT BUTTER
BIRD FEEDER
During the winter months, birds sometimes have trouble finding food. With this project, you can help
them find food and attract them to your yard for you to watch them in their natural habitat.
Use your creativity!
What you will need:
Bread Bird Seed
Peanut Butter Twine
Cookie Cutters
Instructions:
1) Start by placing slices of bread on a cutting board.
Place the cookie cutter on the center of the bread.
Push the cookie cutter all the way through the bread to
cut out the shape of your bird feeder.
2) Poke a hole at the top of each cut-out. A straw
works best for this. This hole is where the twine will go
through, so you can hang your feeders outside.
Let the cut-outs dry on the cutting board overnight so
the bread can harden. Flip the bread over once, so
that both sides of the bread harden evenly.
3) Spread peanut butter on both sides of the bread cut
-outs. Roll the bread in birdseed until it is completely
coated. You may have to use the straw again to re-
move any peanut butter and bird seed that got inside
the holes.
Cut a piece of twine, string it through the hole in the
bread and tie it in a knot. You can hang it on trees or
places in your yard and watch as the birds come to
enjoy the snack! Source: www.simpleasthatblog.com
Chocolate Chip Cookies
In this activity, you'll bake a batch of delicious Chocolate Chip cookies. You will discover
how even the smallest changes to ingredients can make a big difference when it comes to
baking.
What you will need:
1 stick Butter 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Egg 1 cup Quick Cooking Rolled Oats
1 cup Flour 1 cup Chocolate Chips
1/2 cup packed Brown Sugar 1 Cookie sheet
1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 Spatula
1 teaspoon Vanilla Parchment Paper (not necessary)
What to do:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Soften butter in microwave for 15 seconds
Add egg and flour
Add granulated sugar and brown sugar
Mix together
Add oats and chocolate chips
Mix in
Scoop out cookie dough with tablespoon and place on cookie
sheet (if using parchment paper-place parchment paper on cookie
sheet before cookie balls
Make sure to leave 2 inches between cookie balls to allow for
expansion
Place into preheated oven
Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until they are lightly brown
You can use the oven light to spy on their cooking progress!
Source: www.4-h.org
Did you know? Did you know?
You can substitute baking powder
For cookies to reach the perfect
for baking soda to get a fluffier
golden brown color, the minimum
cookie, because baking powder
temperature for sugar
produces more carbon dioxide
caramelization is 356 degrees
inside the cookie.
I am curious about…
Use the Scientific Method to answer a question that you are curious about!
(Ideas for topics and experiments are on the next page!)
QUESTION RESEARCH
HYPOTHESIS (Make a prediction/educated guess, what do you think the answer to the
question will be?)
EXPERIMENT (What materials did you use? What steps did you take?)
ANALYZE (Make observations. What happened in your experiment?)
CONCLUSION (Did you answer your question? What did you learn from your
experiment? If you didn’t answer your question, what can you do differently next time?)
SHARE! Great scientists will share their findings with their communities!
Please share this activity with your Child and Youth Program Coordinator through email or
social media! You can send a copy/photo of this worksheet, pictures, drawings, videos, or
anything to show the learning process and what you learned.
Walking Water Recycled Suspension Bridge
Materials:
Scissors, twine/string, tape, hole punch,
crayons, markers, pencils
Procedure: Gather recycled materials,
such as empty toilet paper rolls, cereal
boxes, any leftover materials you can
find! Challenge yourself to create a
suspension bridge using all of your
materials. You will also need a few toy
Materials: cars and boats to test out your design!
Water, mason jars/clear cups, food Keep adjusting your bridge until it can
coloring (at least three different colors), hold the weight of the toy cars!
paper towels, stirrer, scissors, timer
(optional)
Procedure:
Fill the mason jars with water and add a
different color to each jar. If you use the
primary colors (red, yellow, and blue), you
should fill two jars with each color. Stir the
colored water. Cut strips of paper towels to
fit inside the mason jars. Place the paper
towel strips into the mason jars so that one Learn more about suspension bridges
end is in one jar and the other end in the and get inspiration for other science
next jar (as shown in the picture). Wait and activities here:
watch what happens. You will need a bit of www.leftbraincraftbrain.com
patience to see the water “walk.”
Find more ideas at: www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com Fizzing Colors
Materials: baking soda, white vinegar, medi-
cine dropper/syringe/spoon, food coloring,
baking sheet/messy craft mat
Procedure: Spread the baking soda all over
the baking sheet, shake to distribute evenly.
Next, drop food coloring all over the baking
soda (see photo). Add a drop of vinegar to
each colored spot. Watch what happens!
Find more fun activities here: www.happyhooligans.ca
Creating a Vision Board
As we all know 2020 was a bit of a bust… Join
us in moving onto better times. Get it started
by figuring out what you’d like to accomplish
in the rest of 2021. A fun way to lay out your
goals for 2021 is through a vision board. A vi-
sion board is a visual representation of the
things you want to accomplish or acquire.
Having a vision board helps to keep you moti-
vated and focused to work toward your goals!
So, how do you make a vision board? Start
with thinking about what goals you’d like to
accomplish in 2021. Use the attached Goal
setting worksheet to work through the goals.
But, what if you don’t know what goals you
have? Or you’re unsure where to start, that’s
ok! Below are some questions that can help
spark some ideas:
What are some of your favorite
things?
What are your favorite activities,
or hobbies?
What makes you happy?
If you could choose a topic or
subject to study, what would
that be?
What kind of school experience
would you like to have?
If you could choose what kind of
school (college, university, or
technical training) if you
could go to, where would you
like to go?
What would you like to do when
you grow up?
Creating a Vision Board
If you could create your own business,
what would that be?
If you could design your dream life house/
car/spaceship, what would it look like?
How much money would you like to earn?
Do you have a dream vacation? Where
would that be?
What kind of friends would you like to
surround yourself with?
Do you want to learn a new skill? What
would that be?
What kind of sports would you like to do?
If you could have a special skill to help
people, what would that be?
Who do you admire that you would like to
meet in person?
What kind of difference do you want to make in this world?
Once you have finished this worksheet and identified your goals,
start gathering visual items that go along with your goals
What you will need:
Poster Board (any size)
Magazines and pictures that represent
your goals
Scissors
Crayons, markers, or colored pencils
Glue, glue sticks or tape
Poster board letters (optional)
Once you have all your supplies, let your
creativity run wild! Paste the pictures that go along
with your goals, write words of inspiration and encouragement to achieve your
goals.
Once you are done, hang it up where you can see it each day and
visualize accomplishing those goals!You can also read
