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> What are your favourite family activities?
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post 30/03/2012, 02:51 PM
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What fun things do you do with your kids?

Everyone keeps talking about the benefits of unstructured or free play and just wondering what games you play with your kids?
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Frau Farbissina
post 11/04/2012, 08:36 AM
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I don't know if it's free play, but my kids love going for a walk/bike ride around the lake or a little bushwalk. They are 2 and 4 and really love to explore outside.
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post 11/04/2012, 08:44 AM
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Our activities have obviously changed as they got older but these are some of the things we have done:
Walk to the local park
Bike rides
Feeding ducks at the pond nearby
Doing nature challenges - collecting leaves, sticks, flowers etc.
Nature collages
Painting
Chalk
Building cubby houses out of sheets inside
Building cubby houses in the garden
Cooking
Setting up schools/shops at home to do pretent activities
Teddy Bear picnics
Blocks/lego etc.
Sand Play
Water play
Bubbles
Playdough
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