According to Persil, kids today are often afraid to do things "because they might get dirty".   Hmm - dont remember any of my kids thinking like that - but that's possibly because they are now grown up.    Anyway, Persil compiled a list of 33 things children should do before they reach the age of 10 - here it is:-

Roll on your side down a grassy bank
Make a mud pie
Make your own modelling dough mixture
Collect frogspawn
Make perfume from flower petals
Grow cress on a windowsill
Make a papier mâché mask
Build a sandcastle
Climb a tree
Make a den in the garden
Make a painting using your hands and feet
Organise your own teddy bears' picnic
Have your face painted
Play with a friend in the sand
Make some bread
Make snow angels
Create a clay sculpture
Take part in a scavenger hunt
Camp out in the garden
Bake a cake
Feed a farm animal
Pick some strawberries
Play pooh sticks
Recognise five different bird species
Find some worms
Ride a bike through a muddy puddle
Make and fly a kite
Plant a tree
Build a nest out of grass and twigs
Find ten different leaves in the park
Grow vegetables
Make breakfast in bed for your parents
Make a mini assault course in your garden

I think I'm going to use this as a checklist for my grandchildren.......

Margot

Ah thats a grea idea and I have to be honest, I did most of those things and intend to get my bubba (due oct) to go for it and not have a care :D

My eldest has done all of these things except the frog spawn one! My youngest isn't far behind either!

That's a great checklist for grandchildren :)
My grandson will be 4 next month and has already covered lots of these - it's almost as much fun for me! ;)

There's some there that I would have fun doing now :d

:D yes I can remember doing most of them :P

and yes I have a good memory ;)

Me too :D  Not that long ago (there's a child in all of us, right ...... )

>and yes I have a good memory

Dagnabbit, beat me to it Missie :rolleyes: :P

i still play pooh sticks!

OK - what are pooh sticks    I have a very vivid imagination and it's putting me off my cheesecake ........

Oh teri lol
Pooh sticks is where you have a stick each and you are on a bridge over a river, throw the stick in, the first stick to come through the other side of the bridge is the winner! Hope you can go enjoy that cheesecake now ;-) :-D

Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin played this over the bridge in 100 acre wood.
(hence 'Pooh' sticks!....not a 'jobby' in sight Teri ;) :D :D) ROFL!!!

Phwew - what a weight that is off my tiny mind :D   Winnie the Pooh  :rolleyes:  I thought the "h" at the end was just being a bit posh :D :D :D

off for seconds - chilled as opposed to -  OK best not

thats because I am slightly quicker than you Teri ;)

;)

Im still doing most of them!!!! :rolleyes: :D :D
Roll on your side down a grassy bank ...ok,unintentionaly when Husky spots crows!
Collect frogspawn ... with next doors kids and I taught them how to do maggot racing
Build a sandcastle ...we were at  Bexhill on Sea couple of weekends ago Husky digging
Grow cress on a windowsill...Im growing Alfalfa sprouts in the Airing cupboard!
Pick some strawberries...I 'scrumped' some this morning from the PYO place next door, Storm kept 'dibs'and I filled a poo bag!!
Ride a bike through a muddy puddle...every morning towed by a Husky!

Feed a Farm Animal ...Does making OH's dinner count!!!???? :D :D

Olivia aged 34 and three quaters!

ROFLOL  :D :D
Olivia aged 34 and three quaters!

I 'scrumped' some this morning from the PYO place next door, Storm kept 'dibs'and I filled a poo bag!!

Hope you emptied the 'poo' out first??? :P :P :P

Shouldn't that be "Pooh"    Woops, here comes the cheesecake :rolleyes: :D

Dawn, she didn't say what she filled the poo bag with ?  roflol

I think HG did!!! RFLAO!!! HG is a tealeaf LOL :D

no Dawn I meant... ......oh never mind, maybe I should have winked ;)   :D :D :D

winkwink :P

i can remember doing all that, and pooh sticking what a great game we used to play everytime we went to roath park in cardiff but we would poohstick all the way down the stream. I had to explain what pooh sticking was the other day to someone who hadnt heard of poohsticking before

tanya