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Kids Day (Month)
Welcome to Kids Day! (Month)
This is the first in a month long series of twice weekly activities/challenges hosted by the Creston Museum in lieu of our traditional Kids Day! To participate: Complete the challenge and share it with us!
All the challenges will be listed here on Mondays and Thursdays each week – scroll down to see them all!
To share your challenge with us: post it on our Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram using the hashtag #KidsDay; send us a photo via email; or bring your project to the Creston Museum (we’re open 10:00 – 4:00, Tuesday to Saturday).
CHALLENGE #4: INVENT A FOUR-INGREDIENT RECIPE
All throughout history, there have been times when money is tight, and food is short. So people had to get creative with what they had to eat!
Here is your challenge:
–> Invent a 4 ingredient recipe using ONLY things you have in your house. Don’t go to the store and buy anything! Any Spices other than salt and pepper count as an ingredient!
CHALLENGE #3: CROCHET THREE GRANNY SQUARES
Crocheting is the art of making a fabric through loops of yarn using a hook. It has many handy-dandy uses! You can make everything from clothes and slippers, to cloths, to blankets with it, much like knitting! Instead of using two needles, you use one hook.
A granny square is an easy way to piece together a larger blanket, one square at a time. Once you have enough squares for the size of blanket you want, you sew or crochet them all together. You can do the same colours of granny squares, or different colours; the same pattern, or different patterns!
(if you don’t know how to crochet, you can check out our how-to lesson on the Creston Museum Online Learning Center!)
CHALLENGE #2: MAKE AN OLD PIECE OF CLOTHING INTO SOMETHING NEW
Hand-me-downs and re-purposing have been essentials for as long as people have worn clothes! During the depression, when flour companies found out that people were making clothing for themselves and their children out of the 100-lb flour sacks, they started making them with prints on them!
Your challenge today:
–> Take clothing that you don’t wear anymore, or some clothes that are too big/too small, and turn them into something wearable!
CHALLENGE #1: BUILD A BIRDHOUSE WITHOUT USING WOOD!
Who doesn’t love to watch birds flying back and forth to their nests in the spring! But sometimes getting a wooden house kit isn’t the easiest, and not everybody can just make one. So here is your first challenge!
–> Build a birdhouse out of recycled material you can find around your house!
(Keep in mind, it has to be safe for the birdies so don’t use or decorate it with anything they can get caught or tangled in!)
(Photo courtesy Google Images)