50 Things to do .

[treefrog]

I ticked most of these in my childhood, but even now I still do most of these
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea...-Trust-50-things-to-do-before-you-are-12.html

in case you can't get the link, these are things to do before you are 12yrs old.

1. Climb a tree
2. Roll down a really big hill
3. Camp out in the wild
4. Build a den
5. Skim a stone
6. Run around in the rain
7. Fly a kite
8. Catch a fish with a net
9. Eat an apple straight from a tree
10. Play conkers
11. Throw some snow
12. Hunt for treasure on the beach
13. Make a mud pie
14. Dam a stream
15. Go sledging
16. Bury someone in the sand
17. Set up a snail race
18. Balance on a fallen tree
19. Swing on a rope swing
20. Make a mud slide
21. Eat blackberries growing in the wild
22. Take a look inside a tree
23. Visit an island
24. Feel like you're flying in the wind
25. Make a grass trumpet
26. Hunt for fossils and bones
27. Watch the sun wake up
28. Climb a huge hill
29. Get behind a waterfall
30. Feed a bird from your hand
31. Hunt for bugs
32. Find some frogspawn
33. Catch a butterfly in a net
34. Track wild animals
35. Discover what's in a pond
36. Call an owl
37. Check out the crazy creatures in a rock pool
38. Bring up a butterfly
39. Catch a crab
40. Go on a nature walk at night
41. Plant it, grow it, eat it
42. Go wild swimming
43. Go rafting
44. Light a fire without matches
45. Find your way with a map and compass
46. Try bouldering
47. Cook on a campfire
48. Try abseiling
49. Find a geocache
50. Canoe down a river

 

[resnikov]

Well i'm quite impressed my 2 kids (6 + 4) have done just about all of them exepect abseiling, canoeing and lighting a fire without matches. Should do the fire one this year.

 

[Retired Member southey]

Any one got the number for owl line?

 

[kodiakjoe]

does it have to be 'down' a river?

 

[treefrog]

Any one got the number for owl line?

28 28 20

(Two eight, two eight, two ooooh)

 

[Retired Member southey]

Saw a report with natural heritage chap and some kids building a shelter in a wood with a nice fire behind him this morning saying its important to do these thing, so to my mind that's a green light to sleep out in any FC land, build shelters and have fires? Is this correct OR only on their trms?

 

[Retired Member southey]

28 28 20

(Two eight, two eight, two ooooh)

Hahaha that is brilliant!

 

[Partickpebbles]

Need to get my lad out! Done a fair few so fairly happy!

 

[Qwerty]

Ah crap, I didn't realise this was for kids, and there I was merrily ticking off the list...

 

[John Fenna]

Ah crap, I didn't realise this was for kids, and there I was merrily ticking off the list...

Like me .... I am 55 in physical age ... 10 at heart!

 

[Shewie]

33, 38 & 49 to go

Most of them done in the last ten years

 

[Paul W]

I only have 17 on my list, 10 Commandements + 7 deadly sins, so far I've completed 15 and am working on he other two.

 

[sapper1]

Done them all and loved every one of them.One of the joys of kids is you can do them lots of times.

 

[Everything Mac]

I've not brought up a butterfly or made a mud slide.

Bugs aren't really my thing these days but a mud slide sounds AWESOME!
Andy

 

[Mesquite]

42, 43, 49, 50 still to do

 

[Harvestman]

38. Bring up a butterfly.

Shouldn't that be:
38a. Swallow a butterfly
38b. Bring up a butterfly

or is it only me that thought that when I read it?

 

[vizsla]

All but three. So not bad

 

[Shewie]

38. Bring up a butterfly.

Shouldn't that be:
38a. Swallow a butterfly
38b. Bring up a butterfly

or is it only me that thought that when I read it?

I brought up a mossie last weekend, I swear it went flying into my mouth and straight down my throat without touching the sides, I was retching for five minutes trying to get it out.

 

[xylaria]

I stopped rolling down hills when dog owners stopped picking up after their dogs.

Bouldering is that proper speak for clambering over rocks that you really shouldnt without a rope? unless you are ten years old and sort of bounce and dont care if rip your trousers and get scraped knees.

 

[munkiboi182]

I've not brought up a butterfly or made a mud slide.

Bugs aren't really my thing these days but a mud slide sounds AWESOME!
Andy

i thought the same thing when i was a kid. then i found a plank of wood with a rusty nail poking through it. gave a whole new meaning to the phrase "tear you a new a**ehole". . it gave me a nice 4 inch gash in my right a**e cheek and the scar to match. being only 14 at the time i just brushed it off an carried on sliding