A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
Many Akwesasronon have increased their use of traditional medicines to strengthen their immune systems.
The Mitchell sisters during their home 'Art Class'.
Sisters are earning minutes on their tablets for each pair of socks matched. It can be more challenging than you think matching colors, patterns and sizes.
Paint Night in the Cree family!
Cedar and pine can be used alternately to strengthen your immune system any time of the year.
Some have offered herbal tea and remedies roadside, leaving a thank you note, a small gift or a trade in return. Always practice safe handling, sanitizing before and after picking up teas.
Continued from last week
Last week Indian Time ran an article with 53 things to do and explore while at home. Here are more ideas.
54. Pitch a tent in your biggest room and go 'camping in your backyard'. Or do the real thing in your back yard!
55. Make your own felt board for them to create scenes, practice spelling or do math problems.
56. Using magnetic words or letters, make refrigerator magnetic word and poetry contests.
57. Buy shaving cream and create art outside or on the bathroom wall.
58. Make your own musical instruments. (Search online for hundreds of ideas.)
59. Have a contest to see who reads the most books.
60. Put on a family play.
61. Plan the next family vacation.
62. Collect rocks on a walk. Paint them at home.
63. Start an indoor home garden.
64. Plant marigolds or cooking herbs.
65. Find a dead bee outside. Use a spoon or tweezers to pick it up and investigate it under a magnifying glass or a smartphone app, such as MagLite. If you have a microscope, look at its body parts, such as its eyes, wings or legs. Learn the parts of the bee. Order a bee book or research bees online to learn more.
66. Repeat the above for any insect.
67. Check out e-books and audiobooks from your library through apps such as Libby/Overdrive, Axis 360, Hoopla and cloudLibrary. (Your local library's website should list the apps they use.)
If your library doesn't have online books and audiobooks, check out Epic! Books.
68. Check out "A Week of Awesome Afternoon Adventures" on Zoom with Chris Field.
69. Design your own exercise routine. Take turns teaching an "exercise class" to your favorite tunes.
70. Make pickles and jam.
71. Do puzzles and word-finds.
72. Learn a new chore.
73. Have a contest to see who can match the most socks from that basket full of dryer sock orphans.
74. Take an online course at Coursera or EdX.
75. If you have the food items to do so, cook meals you can freeze and heat up later.
76. Do jigsaw puzzles. Don't have any at home and don't want to spend the money? Then create your own: Draw or paint a picture. Glue it to the cardboard from a box. Print and use an online template to cut out the pieces.
77. Go geocaching! Many smartphone apps and online sites can show you how. Just stay 6-10 feet away from others.
78. Do a household scavenger hunt.
79. Do a local road trip scavenger hunt. Pinterest has loads of ready-to-print ideas.
80. Do a backyard or park scavenger hunt.
81. Fill up a squirt bottle with water and squirt it at trees, backyard objects and each other!
82. Make art from stickers and construction paper.
83. Got a lot of boxes laying around from package deliveries? Make box towers or forts.
84. Play dress-up. (Need a break? Take your favorite outfits out of the closet and then let your kids run wild with what's left.)
85. Hide and seek with objects: One person hides the object in the house, and the others have to find it.
86. Play with your pets.
87. Foster an animal from the local shelter. Use it as an opportunity to see if your children can learn the responsibility to care for a new pet.
88. Learn how to play a musical instrument or practice your instrument, sport skills, choir songs, math or other skills.
89. Learn specific stances and basic positions for karate, Taekwondo or another martial art by following YouTube videos. (Definitely requires supervision.)
90. Create a home movie with your smartphone video.
91. Learn about and then practice the Five Tibetan Rites.
92. Learn to sew. Dozens of online sites and YouTube videos are specifically aimed at teaching kids to sew.
93. Pick a favorite song. Choreograph a dance routine to it.
94. Have Nerf guns or something similar? Have a Nerf battle.
95. Are you a member of Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, 4H, Campfire or a similar organization? See if there are badges you can work on at home.
96. Learn about maps and make a map of your neighborhood.
97. Make jewelry. Order a kit online or better yet, use materials from around the house using string, fish line and found objects.
If you have an idea you would like to share with our readers, send me an email to [email protected] Let us know what you're doing over this break and please, send photos too!
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