FATHER AGNEL SCHOOL,NEW DELHI

SUMMER 2011 ITS VACATION TIME ONCE AGAIN

IDEAS TO HAVE A GREAT TIME & FUN.

SECTION A : Fun Creative Ideas Note: For the sake of environmental concern & awareness use paper which has been used on one side
1.Make labels and stickers Go creative and come up with various designs and ideas for labels and stickers that you can use on your notebooks, your CDs, your bags, and various such other items. 2.Design Clothes Create designs and print on t-shirts, bags, cushions, and other fabric. It is a great way to develop creativity and express your individuality. 3.Make invitation cards If you want to have a party, design your invitation cards yourselves. You can add personalized touch to the card by adding your photos. 4.Create book marks It is a good idea to enhance your creativity while making something as simple as a book mark. Your personally designed bookmark will be unique and will stand out. You can even create personalized book marks to give to family and friends. 5.Make Playing cards You can easily find designs for playing cards on the internet, or you can come up with your own designs. Then print them out on hard paper and you have a custom playing cards set ready. 6.Make a calendar

Make a calendar using your favorite family pictures and moments. You can have different pictures for each month or simply use the same one for different months. 7.Make a diorama Recreate your favorite cartoon scene into a diorama. Get computer print outs of the characters and the props and put them all together.

8.Make a mask You can let your kids design various masks for fun and decoration. You can get templates from the internet and then add your own personal touch to them. Print them out, make the required holes in them and play with them.

SECTION- B: Creative Writing Ideas

Writing helps you to effectively develop your thoughts, express your feelings and play with your imagination. Try the following ideas. 1. Storybook Writing: use your wide imagination in writing your own storybook. You are free to create your own stories and illustrations for your creative masterpiece. You can polish your storybook by checking your spelling and grammar. Read more at http://www.articlealley.com/article_931300_64.html? ktrack=kcplink 2.Headline Writing: Writing a weird and funny headline can be interesting, because you can make up your own news stories. Think of creative poster ideas for headline writing, so you can have your headlines posted on your bedroom wall.

Read more at http://www.articlealley.com/article_931300_64.html? ktrack=kcplink 3.Poetry Writing: You can write poems about topics that interest you such as animals, trains, or people you love. Recite your own poems after your family dinner. 4. Song Lyrics: You will definitely enjoy singing your own song lyrics. Prepare a "Performance Night" to sing your own compositions. 5. Journal: You can record your day to day activities and experiences. Journals are also helpful especially when you are too shy to say what you feel at the moment. For instance, you might feel upset after losing in your football game.Release all frustrations on paper. This will make you feel better afterwards. Read more at http://www.articlealley.com/article_931300_64.html? ktrack=kcplink

SOME TIPS FOR PARENTS TO KEEP THE KIDS BUSY DURING THE VACATIONS
1. Play-Doh or Clay. This is an awesome way to keep toddlers and school age children busy. You can give them an assignment to create something specific, give them cool tools to use, or just let their own imaginations go wild. Even some teenagers can enjoy this activity if they have younger siblings to do it with. 2. Finger Paint. This is funespecially for younger children and elementary age kids. Be sure to spread newspaper or some other alternative down to keep area they will play in clean. Get large sheets of finger paint friendly paper and let them go hog wild. This is also a great activity for outside.

3. Make them play in their room. Yes, it is OK for kids to play in their rooms with their TOYS. LOL! 4. Blow Bubbles. This is fun, indoors or out. Let them be creative when trying to find ways to make big bubbles. 5. Encourage outside play as often as possible. Of course, be safe and make sure your children are supervised. Playing outside is sadly a forgotten past time for many of todays techno driven children. Just get them outside running, playing and sweating. Good old fashioned hard playing is good for building strong bones and healthy lifestyles! 6. Music. Turn on some praise music, or other cleanbut still enjoyable music and let them dance around the house. If you have a few kidsor even two, they can play musical chairs. :) This is the only idea with some sort of techno usage. 7. If they can read, give them books to read on a regular basis. It is important that they readoften. If your kids are too young to read themselves, read to themdaily. Also, a good picture book will keep little non readers busy. :) 8 Chores. LOLyes, give them chores. Daily, weekly and seasonal. Chores are good for kids and help them learn to do things properly and be responsible . 9. Scrapbook a recent fun day. You can buy one of those scrapbook kits, or just pull out what you have. Get pictures developed from a recent fun time and let them create a scrapbook. You will need to help them with cutting and gluing if they are younger, but let them be creative. :) 10. Do a science project. This is great for learning and keeping busy. Visit the local library and find a book with age appropriate ideas and get busy!

11. Practice an instrument. If you have children who are learning to play an instrument, have them practice more. Or better yet, put on a special concert for the family! 12 Go swimming. If you have a pool, let the kids go swimming (again , supervision for those who need it). If you do not have a pool, schedule a day for you and some friends with kids to go to a local pool and have fun! 13. Walk the dog. If you have a dog, let the kids walk it. It teaches responsibility and keeps them busy. 14. Play board games. Good old fashioned fun plain and simple! 15. Ride a bike. Emphasise the need to conserve fuel. 16. Draw. Pull out some paper, crayons, colored pencils, etc. Let them draw on their own or give them ideas. 17. Dust. Little ones LOVE to dust Give them a duster and let them dust your furniture and such. 18. Charity. Have them go through their toys and find things to give to less fortunate kids than themselves. 19. Plant a herb garden. This can work even if you do not have a yardjust use pots. Once their herbs begin to grow, use them to make a special dinner together. 20 Go to the park. . 21. Puppet show. Get out those old socks you know will never see their match again, markers, squiggly eyes and whatever else you can come up with. Help them create cute sock puppets and let them put on a puppet show! 22. Play a sport. Get them involved in some sort of sport.

23. Puzzles. These can take hours depending on age and how many pieces. Great activity. 24. Take a nap. We all know little ones are MUCH nicer when they get a nice nap! LOL! 25. Make jewelry. This can be simple with yarn and beads, or more complicated with wires and tools. It all depends on your childs age and abilities. 26. Quiet time. Yes, it is OK to just have quiet time. You can play the quiet game! 27. Simon says. This can be a lot of fun. 28. Create a collage. You can use what you have around the house, or go for a walk and find things to make a nature collagewhatever you can think up. 29. Exercise together with kids 30. Origami. You may need a book for this one. 31 Get dry flowers and make craft items 32. Make rubbings. This is great for after a walk with things like leaves you find. However, you can also use what is around the house. Example: place newspaper on table. Put item to be rubbed on itlike a leaf. Place white computer paper or some other paper over it. Use crayon and rub (color) over it. The details from the leaf will show up on the paper. You can use just about anythingleaves, coins, etc. 33 Talent show. Have them organize and put on a neighborhood talent show or an art show. 34 Join a book clubor start one.

35. Fly a kite. 36 Help cook. Give them a job to do to help you make dinner. 39. Create a bird feeder and have them bird watch. 41.Go on a nature walk.

42.Utilise the vacation to bond with your children and spend quality time with them.

ENJOY!
CREATE BEST OUT OF WASTE

A. Make a Soda Bottle Dome Display

You will need: (Use substitute material wherever the need be) 1 Soda Bottle finger nail polish remover artificial flowers, leaves, butterfly small artificial bird nest twine foam disk for the base moss glue circle of wood (you can use a wood

lid

from a box) Ready: First wash your bottle and tear off the wrapper. There will be a little of the wrapper left from the glue so rub this off with a polish remover. Down from the top of the bottle you will find a line that goes all the way around the bottle. Pierce this line with a knife blade, then switch to a pair of scissors to cut all the way around. Now you have the dome. Take the circle of foam and insert it in the bottle bottom. Trim, if needed, to make sure it fits inside. Remove the foam. Glue the foam to the middle of the wood base. Glue moss all around the foam. Now add the flowers and greens of your choice in the middle of the moss. Make sure your flowers and green are not too tall for the dome. You want your arrangement just a little smaller than the dome. Add a little butterfly to the flowers. Now put the dome over the flowers, and re-adjust the arrangement, if needed, so the flowers and decorations are displaying correctly. Glue some leaves on top of the soda bottle dome, then add a nest and a bird. The nest is optional.

Lastly, glue some household twine around the bottle and wood circle. Enjoy!

2.CD Snowman
You will need:
discarded CD juice can lid two straws small piece of foam or felt three buttons white spray paint black permanent marker small piece of fabric or yarn to use as a scarf two small pom poms two big black bindis glue

Project Instructions: 1. Spray paint the CD and a juice can lid on both sides in white paint. Let dry. 2. Glue the bindis, and a small triangular piece of craft foam for the nose, to the juice can lid. Make a series of dots with black permanent pen to represent the snowman's mouth. 4. Cut a length of straw to fit around the top of the juice can

lid, extending down a little less than halfway. This is top of the ear muffs. Glue a small pom pom on each end of the straw to finish the ear muffs. 5. Glue the completed snowman head on top of the CD. 6. Tie yarn, cord or a small strip of fabric around the neck as a scarf. 7. Cut another straw in quarters. Take two pieces and twist one around the other to form a stick arm, as shown on the photo. Repeat to make the other arm. Glue the arms in place on each shoulder area. 8. Glue three buttons down the front to finish. If desired, add a loop of cord to hang.

TRY TO CREATE SOME MORE THINGS ON YOUR OWN

Have a happy vacation.