I decided to teach the girls how to play elastics. I loved elastics at school, and I was really good at it - not to boast ... but I could do elastics well even at necks.
At school lately they've had a big push from Sport Waikato on physical fitness and healthy eating, encouraging the kids to find new ways to get active.
After trawling around on the internet for half an hour I had a fairly good handful of elastics rhymes for them, so we headed off to Spotlight on one of "mum's mystery missions" where I don't tell the kids what we're doing, they have to guess ...
A 3m length of elastic cost me $5.10, and it entertained the girls for HOURS! Actually, it entertained me a whole lot too - I'm not as good at it anymore, but hey - I'm 20 years out of practice!!
Ohh, that was always so much fun!
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Just stumbled across your blog via Kiwimummyblogs. What a great idea! I had completely forgotten the joys of elastics - brings back memories of playing knucklebones, double dutch and (blush) 'catch and kiss'! Good old days of innocence... So much better than plonking the kids in front of the computer/tv/cellphone etc... so awesome work! I will be sure to get to spotlight asap and recreate my childhood games with my boy!
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