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This Week in ASP Digital ASP!
Welcome to This Week in ASP! Your newest spot for all the games and activities you love in after-school, and some new ones, now in a newsletter! Stay tuned for more awesome activities and brain breaks to keep you and your family engaged and smiling!
InterACTive Homemade Mad Libs: Each person writes a goofy story, leaving blanks that other family and friends will complete. Take turns filling-in inventive nouns, verbs, exclamations, and other parts of speech for a silly story. Read your finished stories aloud. Sardines: ASP81's most requested game! All the players close their eyes and count while one person hides. After counting to 20, all the “Its” must begin the search. When one of the “Its” finds the hider, they quietly crawl into the hiding spot with the hider; no giggling allowed! The last person to hide with the “sardines” becomes the hider in the next round. Pencil Prompts
1. Write something inspired by a dream that you've had 2. Write about a magic potion. What is it made of? What does it do? What is the antidote? 3. Imagine you are a sea creature, write about what your day would be like, what things you would see, what friends you would have, what challenges you might face.
DIY Designs Spring Flower Suncatcher Shadow Drawings Origami Finger Puppets Comic Book Templates
Inspiration Station Create your own word puzzles! Queens Museum Sunday Family Workshops Art for Kids Hub
The Daily Draw
Design an indoor Treasure Hunt
Sketchbooks are a great way to add a little creativity practice into your everyday, here are instructions for an easy homemade sketchbook Invent your own mythical creature by combining three or four animals from this list: llama, dolphin, monkey, tiger, eagle, elephant, shark, turkey, lion, giraffe, raccoon, insects, any other animal you want! Draw yourself as a superhero! Illustrate your favorite fairytale Design the most fun playground you can imagine
Performance Pieces Bring The Cool Family Festival May 30: Live directed drawing, animalinspired yoga, interactive storytelling and a virtual dance party from 2-4 pm! Treasure Trunk Theater: Act, move, create, and play. Take an online class engaging in musical theatre and storybook adventures. Live on Zoom! (ages 3-9) . BAM Digital Archive: A unique curated selection of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s rich history! Joyce Theater: Bring Dance Home, The Joyce invites you to their digital stage with a selection of international and homegrown performances available for streaming.
Mindful Movement Disney Family Workouts Go with YoYo (ages 3-6) Tennis Innovators YMCA@home
S.T.E.A.M Olympic Flame in a Bottle Skewer Structures Indoor Fort Building Marbled Milk Paper
Creativity Corner Open your own restaurant Decide on a theme and name for your restaurant Make pretend food with model magic, playdough, paper, or felt Cook a "special" dish for your restaurant with help from your adult Write out a menu with food descriptions & prices Create video or poster advertisements for your restaurant Don’t forget the decor! Do you need a host? Servers? Use your math skills to tally the bill and give change Have a food critic write up a review
Self Care Suggestions
Listen to the read-aloud of Even Superheroes Have Bad Days Try the P.B.S. technique in Kids Explain Mindfulness Nice Notes: think of something you’re good at, and write a quick note of praise for yourself. Try some positive affirmations Take a breath
Smell the Flowers . . . Blow out the Candles
Spread Some Sunshine
Start a Magic Mail Station Thank your delivery providers Plan a neighborhood Bear Hunt by asking people to place teddy bears in their windows Make a peace pact with your sibling(s). Try put-ups instead of put-downs.
Wonderful Websites Outschool: Live online classes chock full of arts, world languages, life skills, math, music and much much more. Even beatboxing! Classes for ages 3-18. Taste Buds Kitchen: An at-home cooking club for budding chefs to learn something new and fill the days ahead at home! Sesame Street Caring: Ideas to help your family find ways to breathe, laugh, and play together. Goodnight with Dolly: Featuring Dolly Parton reading a series of imaginative bedtime stories. What animal is always at a baseball game? What do you call a fake noodle?
Jovial Jokes
A bat.Â
An impasta. What did the big flower say to the little flower? Hi, bud!
VIRTUAL TOURS Great Pyramids of Giza: The oldest and the largest of the three in the Giza pyramid complex. Take an amazing tour of the oldest Seven Wonders of the Ancient World!
Farm Tours: Immerse yourself in a Canadian farm and food tours.
Houston Zoo: Enjoy a live look at a herd of Asian elephants, giraffes nibbling on lettuce, flamingos floating next to a waterfall and chimpanzees snoozing in their hammocks.
The Nature Conservancy: Discover the secret life of coral reefs, the symphony of a rainforest, China’s great forest and so much more!
Crossword Scramble Unscramble the letters of these African Animals to complete the puzzle!
Across
3. oihrn 7. cljaka 9. cnpierpou 10. reccdiool 16. eeptnlah 18. aelnotep 19. nehya 20. noli
Down
1. mpaila 2. fafegir 4. pihop 5. aberz
6. muerl 8. eedewiblst 11. cateehh 12. ogathrw
13. obanob 14. reatmek 15. igraoll 17. npolagni
Crossword Scramble Answers No Peeking!
(answers are upside down)
Newsletter designed by: Vanessa Uribe Created by: Beth Portnoy, Jema Aska, Vanessa Uribe