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Kids’ Activities for Outdoor Parties

May 21st, 2013

Errin

Who doesn’t love a good outdoor barbecue party?! Whether you’re celebrating a holiday like Memorial Day or the Fourth of July, or just having a party to enjoy the weather with family and friends, it’s always a good idea to think of great activities for the kids ahead of the time. Planning a party can involve a lot, but we’ve thrown together some simple (we LOVE simple) ideas for fun for the kids.

1. Set up a coloring station.

Put out a table and small chairs for the kids to have fun drawing and coloring. If you don’t have a small table, you could always throw down a picnic blanket on a hard surface like the driveway or sidewalk. Fill several buckets (old coffee cans work great!) with coloring utensils and set out some paper, coloring pages, or you could even get the long pieces of paper from a craft store. Here are some free coloring pages you can print off, just click “Color Me” under each Fassa Character. This is particularly great activity for the younger kids.

Stuff: Coloring Utensils, Paper, Coloring Pages, Containers for the Coloring Utensils, Table & Chairs (optional), Blanket (optional)

2. Set up a craft activity.

You can add this on to the coloring station above. Find a simple craft the kids can make, this is a great way to have a fun party favor to send them home with. If you’re having a Memorial Day or Fourth of July party, you can have the kids make their own flag. Check out the full (and simple!) instructions for My Own Flag.

Stuff (for My Own Flag): Coloring Utensils, Construction Paper, Plain Paper, Sticks (have the kids find their own in the yard!), Glue Stick, Tape. Child Scissors (optional)

3. Set out chalk, buckets, and sponges.

This is perfect if you have a paved area available to you. Get several sets of chalk (so sharing is easy) and then place a few buckets with some water and sponges so the kids can “erase” and continue to draw! Also, drawing with chalk on wet pavement can be really fun, too.

Stuff: Chalk, Buckets, Sponges

4. Make “F-A-S-S-A” Buckets

This is a fan favorite. We’ve done this one at several of our Planet Fassa events and at our own parties with our kids – they love it! It’s very simple to do. Set up 5 buckets in a row (you can decide how much space between each) and the goal is for each child to land a ball into the each bucket starting at the first going to the last! If you want, you can put little prizes in each bucket.

Stuff: Buckets (small waste baskets work really well), Soft Balls, Prizes (optional)

Photo Credit: Michael Courtney

5. Create a Scavenger Hunt.

Make a simple Scavenger Hunt for the kids. This is a great activity if you have some older kids at the party – and if you have little ones and older ones, pair them up together! You can even hid some things around the yard or house to make it a bit more fun. Here are some ideas for clues (make some time before the party to make sure that each one works and write down answers to the questions):

1. Something red.
2. Something white.
3. Something blue.
4. Write down the name of the tallest person at the party.
5. Something round.
6. Write down how many people are wearing sandals.
7. Something cold.
8. Write down how many windows are on the house/apartment.
9. Something living.
10. Something hot (don’t touch!)

Stuff: Scavenger Hunt Questions, Paper, Writing Utensil, Hard Surface to Write on (like a clipboard)

Something living!

6. United States Freeze Tag.

Fun for any kind of party (doesn’t have to be a themed party!) Pretty much any kid loves tag. This is the same tag you remember, but with the an added twist! Print out full instructions here.

Stuff: United States Free Tag instructions

Photo Credit: Lynnsey Dunson www.lynnseydunson.com

We have a TON more game ideas from S. Moo’s big Olympic Party last year, great ones like Frozen Polo (freeze a t-shit and teams have to unroll frozen t-shirts and put them on the quickest!) Also, go on PlanetFassa.com and search our activity database for a bunch of other great outdoor activities!

We’d love to hear any great kiddo-focused activities you know of below in the comments. Enjoy your party!

Errin
Go2Gal
Online Communications Manager
Loving Wife & Stepmomma

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Adopt-A-Tree Activity

May 13th, 2013

Errin

Kids LOVE this activity, Adopt-A-Tree. Your child finds a tree to adopt and then identifies it, names it, guesses its age, and more! This activity can be started in any season and continued over time. It’s also a great way for them to learn more about the natural world and the environment in their area of the planet. Six-year-old Dylan had a blast doing each step of the activity. Directions are below or you can open a PDF to print. Enjoy!

ADOPT-A-TREE

Stuff: Notebook, Writing Utensil, Crayon, Coloring Utensils, Measuring Tape, Camera

Nugget Directions (Main part of the activity):

1. Find a tree to adopt. This can be a tree from your yard, from a nearby park, or a city street. Make sure to ask permission to go outside and that an adult (Village Member) knows where you are going. Or bring a Village Member with you!
Draw a picture of your tree.

2. Study your tree. Write down or draw anything you notice about your tree. Is it tall? Does it have leaves? Is its bark smooth or bumpy? Do any animals live in your tree?

3. There are 2 groups of trees, coniferous and deciduous. Find out which group your tree belongs to by looking at your tree’s leaves. If the leaves are pointy like needles and/or the tree has cones on it, then it is a coniferous tree. If the leaves are bigger or broadleaf (wide and flat), and the tree loses its leaves in the fall, then it is a deciduous tree. Dylan’s tree is a deciduous tree! She also did a leaf rubbing from her tree.

4. Then, make a bark rubbing of your tree. Take a piece of paper and hold on the tree’s truck. Now, rub crayon all over the paper. Also, look on the ground and see if you can gather some needles, cones, or leaves that have fallen off of the tree and tape or glue them to your tree rubbing.

5. After you’ve learned a little bit about your tree, start to think about a name for it! Is it a he or she? Does it remind you of something? For example, you could name a weeping willow tree Eeyore:) Dylan named her tree “Delisa Homeward Bound Camalee.”

6. Make a guess about the age of your tree and write it down in your notebook. Later, you can figure out the age of your tree with a Village Member. Dyl guessed that her tree was 109 years old…find out in the “Me and My Person” section below if she was correct!

7. Watch your tree through the different seasons and how it changes! Draw a picture of your tree every season and record the changes on your picture.

8. You can also spend time with your tree by having a picnic or reading a book under it. With Village Member permission and help, you could climb your tree like Dyl did!

HAVE FUN!

Fassa Challenge (An added fun twist!):

1. You know which group your tree belongs to but now try to figure out what kind of tree it is! Go to the library and check out a book on trees, or look it up on the internet. You may need help from a Village Member. We figured out that Dylan’s tree was a Maple tree by looking at its leaves and comparing them to leaves online!

Me and My Person (A great way to connect):

Your Fassa Kid did Adopt-a-Tree. He or she found a tree to “adopt” and then studied the tree and named it! Here are some ways to connect with your Fassa Kid:

1. Ask your Fassa Kid to take you to see the tree. Ask him or her questions about what he or she discovered about the tree and what he or she named it.

2. Help your Fassa Kid figure out how old the tree is! First, wrap a measuring tape around the tree about 3 to 5 feet off the ground. Next, measure the circumference of the tree in inches. The age of the tree is approximately 1 year of life for each inch. How old is your tree? Look how close Dylan’s guess was to the estimated age!

We hope you enjoyed the activity as much as Dylan did. This fun activity actually turned into another activity, completely inspired by Dylan! She loved being outside and studying her tree so much, she decided to go on a “Nature Treasure Hunt!” She searched for a bunch of other neat things to find in the yard. Inspiring more play with our activities is precisely what we wish to do at Planet Fassa; all of our activities are a springboard to more play and imagination!

Please leave a comment below if you adopt a tree, we’d love to hear about it. Or if you’d like, send us a picture of your adopted tree to info(at)planetfassa(dot)com and we’ll add it to the blog!

If you like a printable PDF of this activity, please see our Adopt-A-Tree page. Also, your child can receive points for completing this activity on our free site, www.planetfassa.com. On Planet Fassa there are hundreds of OFF-line activities for you and your kids to enjoy and each activity earns points that can be cashed in for rewards of your choosing!

Errin
Go2Gal
Online Communications Manager
Loving Wife & Stepmomma

Planet Fassa is a FREE website where your children earn online points for playing OFF-line. Go to www.planetfassa.com to play today!

Members can also access more than 300 different activities, such as active outdoor games, creative crafts, imaginative play, in the car games, silly games to get a fun conversation started, and special activities for the seasons and holidays. We also have a series of books, The Fassa Tails, all available for download to your favorite handheld device or PC. Search Amazon.com for ‘The Fassa Tails’ today!

Check out how a FREE membership can keep you and your little ones playing, moving, and laughing all year long! www.planetfassa.com

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A Letter to Mom

May 8th, 2013

Errin

Mother’s Day is celebrated every year on the 2nd Sunday of May. There are many sweet things kids can do for Mom, but often their words are the best gift she can get! Dads, Grandparents, Nannies, Teachers, we created a sweet letter template for kids to fill in the details and give it to their Mom on Mother’s Day. Please print and share as much as you’d like! Click here or on the image of the letter below to open a new window where you can save and print the letter.

Add a memory with your own Mother to our Mom-ories blog, it’s a great way to pay tribute to that special lady in your life. Remember to say thanks to Moms all year, not just Mother’s Day.

S. Moo
Founder of Planet Fassa
Author of The Fassa Tails
Happy Stepmom of Three

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Screen-Free Week Activities

April 29th, 2013

Errin

Screen-Free Week was April 29th to May 5th, 2013

We’ll miss you guys! We’ve headed offline this week to join in Screen-Free Week. Getting kids (and adults) to balance their time on screens and off is a cause near and dear to our hearts – and is the reason why S. Moo started Planet Fassa in the first place!

We hope you and your family have some time to go offline this week, whether it’s for a day or for the entire week, or perhaps even this weekend. Before we go, we wanted to share with you some links to some great screen-free fun (click the titles to open the new page):

Springtime Detective: Explore the great outdoors and find the clues that a new season is under way!

Backward Ball: This is a seriously fun and seriously silly way to play catch! Click the link to open a PDF of the instructions. This game comes straight from our free website.

Activity for Kids: Adopt-A-Tree: Fun kids activity where kids can “Adopt-a-Tree” and have fun while learning.

Up in the Clouds: Get outside with your kids and enjoy the beautiful clouds floating by with this fun activity.

My Kind of Town: This Planet Fassa original activity involves LOTS of creativity as your child uses household materials to build their very own town.

Alphabet People: Get silly with the whole family with this game where you spell using your entire body!

Tissue Box Guitar: This activity is fun and crafty, and uses household materials!

10 Kid-Friendly “Olympic” Events: Who says it has to been an Olympic year to have some fun backyard Olympics-inspired competitions? These are sure to get you and your family laughing and having fun.

10 Word Games for Kids: These word games are unique AND fun! What a great combo

4 Outdoor Activities for Rainy Days: Active Kids Club gives 4 great ideas for playing outside in the rain.

Raising Happy Kids…Outside! Amelia from Tales from a Mountain Mama shares her fun outdoor activities for cultivating happy kids.

Last but not least, get HUNDREDS of OFF-line play ideas at www.planetfassa.com. All you have to do is take 2 minutes to sign up (for free!) and then click “Games” and you have access to over 300 OFF-line activities. Want to bring back an oldie but goodie? Search “Kick the Can” Want to try something new? Search “Towel Ball.”

See you next Monday and HAVE FUN!

The Planet Fassa Team

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Ben’s Dreams of Becoming a Firefighter

April 23rd, 2013

Errin

Do you remember what you would say you wanted to be when you grew-up? Wouldn’t it be fun to have your career aspirations recorded from your childhood? Consider creating an “interview” for your kids and either recording it or writing it down; keep it for when they’re older!

In honor of all the brave firefighters that protect us every day, we interviewed 8-year-old Ben, whose dream has been to be a firefighter since he was only 2 years old. We absolutely love to hear kids thoughts, dreams, and opinions in their own words!

What would you like to be when you grow up?
A fireman.

What do you like about firefighters?
Because they blow out fire and they hold hoses at the fire. They go in buildings to find people, like kids or dogs or cats. Because they save people.

Do you think it’d be a hard job? Why?
No, because it sounds so fun.

What do firefighters have to do?
Exercise, make dinner, I read this book and it says firemen make their own dinner and they take turns. They make dinner for each other.

Would you be scared sometimes?
Yes, if there was a really big fire.

How could you help yourself to be brave when you need to be?
Breathe in and out.

Have you met a firefighter before? Where?
Yes! We went to this place for an open house for fireman, so we went and I met a real fireman. And I met more at my brother’s birthday party. And we rode in the truck. I think I met the Fire Chief.

Have you been to a Fire Station? Was it cool?
Yes! It was very cool. And I saw the rooms that they sleep in.

What were they like?
They were like little apartments.

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Facts for Kids: 25 Facts About Planet Earth

April 15th, 2013

Errin

Children are constantly taking in the world around them, learning more and more every day. A topic of never-ending fascination is our wondrous planet. Kids love to learn facts about Earth, at school or at home. Let’s learn some interesting Earth facts!

1. The Earth is the 3rd planet from the Sun and is the 5th largest of our 8 planets.

2. We used to think that there were 9 planets until 2006 when Astronomers figured out that Pluto was actually a dwarf planet! Can you name the 8 planets?

3. Earth formed around 4 and half BILLION years ago. That is about 50 million lifetimes!

4. Scientists believe that life first appeared 3 and half billion years ago.

5. Our Earth is mostly made water! Bodies of water cover almost 70% of the surface of our planet.

6. Earth is not actually perfectly round (called a sphere.) It is slightly flattened at the North and South poles.

7. The Earth is constantly spinning (called rotating on it’s axis.)

8. There used to be one HUGE continent called Pangaea which was formed around 270 million years ago.

9. Over time Pangaea broke up into pieces which slowly became the continents we have today. Do you know the names of our 7 continents?

10. There are many different layers to the Earth, and the middle is called the core. Did you know that the core is hotter than the surface of the Sun?! Scientists believe that the Earth’s core is about 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

11. It is 3,958.5 miles to the center of the Earth! That is the length of 464,464 school buses. Whoa.

12. If you decided to walk around our planet (and you could walk on water), it would take you 1 year and 11 months and ONLY if you walked every single day for 12 hours a day!

13. A man from Canada named, Jean Beliveau, holds the record for walking all over the world for 11 years straight!

14. Underneath the deep waters of the oceans there are huge mountains and volcanoes. Manua Kea, a volcano in Hawaii, is 33,500 feet tall when measured from the ocean floor and 13,796 feet are above water.

15. The deepest part of the world’s ocean is the Marianas Trench and goes 1,580 miles deep. That is the same distance from New York City to Fort Worth, Texas!

16. There are earthquakes happening all the time, but most of the time they are so small that we can’t feel them.

17. The highest mountain on our planet is Mount Everest and is 29,029 feet high! Mount Everest is in a mountain range called the Himalayas. The Himalayas are located between China and Nepal.

18. The highest mountain in the United States is Mount McKinely in Alaska and it stands at 20,328 feet tall.

19. The largest desert in the world is the Sahara desert. It covers a third of Africa!

20. The Sahara desert can get as hot as 122 degrees Fahrenheit and it gets less than 2.5 centimeters of rain each year.

21. The largest animal in the world is the blue whale. It is also the largest known animal to have ever been alive! The biggest blue whale ever found weighed about 390 THOUSAND pounds and was 108 feet long. If you weigh 60 pounds – there would need to be 6,500 of you to equal the weight of 1 blue whale!! See video of a giant blue whale.

22. The smallest mammal in the world is the Kitti’s Hog-Nosed Bat (also called the Bumblebee Bat.) It is about the size of a quarter! This bat lives in limestone caves in Thailand and Burma. See some of the tiniest record-breaking animals in the world – too cute!

23. The tallest known living tree is in Redwood National Park in northern California – it measures 379.1 feet tall and is name Hyperion. The coolest part? The people who discovered it and the scientists who studied it won’t tell anyone where the tree is in the park! They are doing this to help keep it safe from people carving it, climbing it, or taking souvenir pieces.

24. There are over 7 billion people on our planet! You can watch the estimated numbers on the U.S. and World Population Clock from the U.S. Census bureau.

25. Earth Day is celebrated all over the world on April 22nd of every year. A peace activist, John McConnell, come up with the idea and name, and the very first Earth Day was in 1970. Have you celebrated Earth Day before? Here’s a fun coloring page for you!

Want some more fun stuff? Check out some silly stuff about our Moon and find some great Earth Day activities (which you can do anytime of the year!)

We’re also sharing an awesome activity where YOU get to be in charge of protecting the Earth at your house.

Please share any more amazing facts about our great planet in the comments below

Errin
Go2Gal
Online Communications Manager
Loving Wife & Stepmomma

Planet Fassa is a FREE website where your children earn online points for playing OFF-line. Go to www.planetfassa.com to play today!

Members can also access more than 300 different activities, such as active outdoor games, creative crafts, imaginative play, in the car games, silly games to get a fun conversation started, and special activities for the seasons and holidays. We also have a series of books, The Fassa Tails, all available for download to your favorite handheld device or PC. Search Amazon.com for ‘The Fassa Tails’ today!

Check out how a FREE membership can keep you and your little ones playing, moving, and laughing all year long! www.planetfassa.com

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Ways to Raise Happy Kids and Happy Kids’ Quotes!

April 8th, 2013

Errin

We love happy kids. We love happiness in general! Everything is just better when you and your children are happy and feeling good. There are so many people who promote happy kids and happy families on their sites, blogs, and on Twitter – and we asked a few if they would share in celebrating happiness! Below you’ll find links to each guest blog. Make sure to scroll down and read some heart-warming and smile-inducing quotes from happy kids themselves!

Happy Family Habits from The Happy Family Movement
Do you have any family habits that contribute to your family’s happiness? The Happy Family Movement shares some of their wonderful Happy Family Habits. Follow them at @HappyFamMvmt!

Free to Fly (Thank you, Imagination) from Happy Julie Hemker
If you could be anything, what would it be? Julie shares what she would be and her happy memories from childhood. Connect with Julie here: @HappyJulieHmker.

Raising Happy Kids from The Tales of a Mountain Mama
Being outside is very important and a huge factor in Amelia’s family. Learn some fun outdoor activities you can do with your kids to inspire happiness and outdoor play! Follow Amelia for some great stuff: @mtnmamatales!

Happy Kids and Stress Free Moments from Stress Free Kids
Remember being a child, blowing bubbles or chasing fireflies? Lori Lite from Stress Free Kids shares her ideas for ways to keep your kids happy and stress-free! Lori is one of the best people to follow on Twitter:-) @StressFreeKids

#HappyKids Quotes!

We asked parents to ask their children, “What makes you happy?” and we LOVE the responses. Here they are, straight out of the mouth of babes:

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Stories for Kids

April 1st, 2013

S. Moo

Stories for Kids, Fun Reading Activities, and Great Quotes!

Celebrate #Kidlit with Planet Fassa with inexpensive Kindle stories for kids, plus fun activities and great quotes to encourage your kids and you to read!

Stories for Kids

Check out GREAT Kindle Deals (available on ALL handheld devices!) on stories for kids this week – 3 great books for JUST $.99! Click on a cover to grab them from Amazon!

EXTRA FUN! Show kids the characters in the above books in REAL life!

Reading Activities

Reading is such a powerful way to develop a child’s creativity and imagination, and teach them about the world! In addition to the stories for kids above, use the reading activities below to show them how much FUN it can be!

Line-by-Line – gather a group to write a story together, each adding one sentence at a time!

Tongue Twisters - have a laugh with kids by trying these 6 tongue twisters, each based on the character and plot of the 6 Fassa Tails stories for kids!

Great Reading Quotes

Reading Quotes - great quotes on reading to inspire YOU and your kids to partake in the great gift of reading!

Goodreads Quotes from Authors – another great list of great reading quotes!

S. Moo
Founder of Planet Fassa
Author of The Fassa Tails
Happy Stepmom of Three

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10 April Fools’ Day Pranks for Kids

March 25th, 2013

Errin

Let’s get silly! Each year April Fool’s Day is celebrated on April 1st and it’s a great time to share some laughs with your kids. We did some research and gathered some favorite April Fools’ Day pranks for kids from some of our friends, and put them all together here in one place for you and your family!

1. Rainbow Cereal. Put a couple drops of food coloring in a cereal bowl and let it dry. Pour in some cereal and help your kids pour in the milk. When they stir their cereal the milk will change color. Fun!

2. Broken Shampoo Bottles. Unscrew the cap of a shampoo or conditioner bottle and place a small piece of plastic wrap on the opening. Place the cap back on. The next shower victim will be totally confused at why he or she cannot get any shampoo out!

3. Jello Juice. Make some jello and allow it to set in a drinking glass. Place it at the table for your child to “drink” with breakfast or lunch. He or she gets a laugh out of it and some jello.

4. Super Soaker. If you have a sprayer on your sink, wrap a rubber band around the nozzle and the handle (make sure the water is off) and make sure it’s facing the front of the sink. The next unsuspecting person to turn on the water will get a blast of water! Not a good one to do right before school or work, but great for when you’ll have some time to clean up some water (and maybe have a water fight!)

5. Spilled Milk. Make your own fake spill with some glue and plastic wrap, and set it up somewhere for your kids (or Mom or Dad) to find. Here are some great instructions from DTLK’s Crafts for Kids.

6. Good morning! This is a silly one and works if you can get your kids to nap. Have your kids get into their PJs and take a nap. When they’re sleeping change the clocks to say the time that they usually wake up and put on your PJs or robe. When they wake up, make breakfast, and pretend it’s the morning!

7. Silly Socks. When your child isn’t around, go into his or her sock drawer and safety pin together a bunch of his or her socks. This works best if you pin the socks together at the ends. When your child pulls out socks in the morning, they’ll just keeping coming out of the drawer!

8. No Fork for You! When your family is sitting down to dinner, tell them that the dishwasher malfunctioned and all your silverware was ruined and you had to throw them all out. Keep a straight face as you tell them you won’t be able to get new silverware until next weekend and everyone will have to eat with their hands until then. Especially funny if you serve something like spaghetti!

9. Where am I?? This is great if your children are heavy sleepers. Once they’ve fallen asleep, carefully pick them up and place them in their sibling’s bed. Be sure to be in the room when they wake up!

10. Chore Camp. We couldn’t stop laughing when we found this great one from Spoonful.com. Print out this super silly “Chore Camp” brochure and present it to your kids with a completely straight face. Tell them you’ve signed them up for this Summer.

Have any other fun and silly pranks that are kid-friendly? Please share in the comments below!

Remember to always have fun, be silly, and laugh with your family. For some more ways to get happy this week, see our April Fool’s Day post from last year with some stories that go along with some of these pranks and check out 5 Simple Ways to Get Happy.

We also are sharing a bunch of kid-friendly jokes in our children’s activity, Make Me Laugh, from our activity database on PlanetFassa.com.

The Planet Fassa Team

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Spring Break Activities for Kids!

March 18th, 2013

S. Moo

Spring is about to be sprung! At this time, many parents are either gearing up for a full week on the road with the kids OR a full week home with the kids and are looking for fun Spring Break activities for kids.

No matter what Spring Break has in store for you, we’ve gathered some EASY ideas to keep the kids having fun, off of screens for a bit, and off of your nerves and each other’s! Check out some great games for the car, outdoor activities, books for children, and coloring pages:

Spring Break Activities for Kids

Each activity below (we call them Nuggets!) can also be found on our free, family website: www.planetfassa.com. Adults or children can create an account on Planet Fassa for FREE and the kids can earn points for playing off-screen!

Games for the Car

Whether you’re flying far away or just running around your own town, here are GREAT games for the car to inspire imaginative fun while “on the road”:

Road Trip! 5 Games for the Car: Taking a trip with the kids soon? You need some great games for the car! Mix in some “old school” fun with some of today’s great technology with these 5 games for the car.

Spot that Car: Together, decide what kind of vehicle or color vehicle to look for during your road trip. Make an estimate and then keep track of how many you see. Whoever is the closest wins! Get these instructions plus a fun challenge by searching this title under “Games” when you login for free on Planet Fassa.

Vehicle Baseball: Each Fassa Kid has a turn at bat and different vehicles along the road are worth hits or outs. Keep score and the Fassa Kid with the most runs wins. Get these instructions with printable charts by searching this title under “Games” when you login for free on Planet Fassa.

Outdoor Activities

outdoor games for kids

This is a great way to get kids exploring your own yard and neighborhood OR learning more about a cool place you’re visiting!

Springtime Detective: Outdoor learning and exploring activity for kids! Great for learning about the changes happening in the environment.

Backward Ball and Outdoor Photo Hunt: 2 great outdoor activities for the family. Backwards Ball is a new way to play catch and Outdoor Photo Hunt is a creative activity for the entire family!

Life-Size Board Game: Be a game piece in your favorite board game! Pick a board game that you have played before and re-create it by drawing it on a large paved area. Get these instructions plus a fun challenge by searching this title under “Games” when you login for free on Planet Fassa.

Books for Children

No matter what your plan, it is always great to read with your kids!

The FASSA Tails – great for the car, plane, home, anywhere! You can download them in color to any handheld device or PC.

Each Fassa Tail has a positive life lesson, plus TONS of imaginative OFF-line activities that reinforce the lesson at www.planetfassa.com.

Coloring Pages

Coloring pages are fun for anyone, anywhere! Print them for the car ride, the plane trip, or for a few moments of creative quiet time at home.

Go here and click on any character’s “Color Me” page to get printable coloring pages your kids will love.

Whether you’re traveling this Spring Break or staying at home and enjoying a week off, I hope you have a blast with your family. During break or on any day, be sure to check out our Factivity daily for a kid-friendly fact or activity. You can find our Factivity on Facebook or download the simple widget to your desktop.

We also are sharing some great products for Spring: LKB’s Things for Spring!

Hope you enjoyed more fun things to do with the kids from Planet Fassa.

S. Moo
Founder of Planet Fassa
Author of The Fassa Tails
Happy Stepmom of Three

Planet Fassa is a FREE website where your children earn online points for playing OFF-line. Go to www.planetfassa.com to play today!

Access more than 300 different activities, such as active outdoor games, creative crafts, imaginative play, in the car games, silly games to get a fun conversation started, and special activities for the seasons and holidays. We also have a series of books, The Fassa Tails, all available for download to your favorite handheld device or PC. Search Amazon.com for ‘The Fassa Tails’ today!

Check out how a FREE membership can keep you and your little ones playing, moving, and laughing all year long! www.planetfassa.com

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