7-Year-Olds
Activities for 7-year-olds.
Seven is the age of getting into things: collecting, sorting, organising, making a club, keeping a notebook, becoming briefly and intensely expert in one subject.
Activities can have several steps and a genuine difficulty to them. Simplifying too far is the usual mistake — a seven-year-old given something obviously easy will say so.
This is also a good age for making things for other people: cards, presents, a game to teach a younger sibling.
Activities
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20 Easy Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids (Turkey Approved)
Looking for thanksgiving crafts for kids that go beyond the same old handprint turkey? These 20 easy Thanksgiving crafts use things you already have at home — paper plates, toilet rolls, flour, dried beans — and every idea lists the age, the time, and the mess level up front.
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Draw Round Their Hand and Keep It
One sheet, once a year: their hand, their height, and three things they can do now that they could not last year.
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Spooky Shadow Puppets
Cut a bat and a cat from card, tape them to straws, and put on a show against the wall with a torch.
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Five Ways to Decorate an Egg With No Dye
Stickers, felt tips, wool, tissue paper and tape. All five work on a hard-boiled egg and none of them stain anything.
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The Shape of a Rainy Day
A whole day indoors needs a shape, not a list. Energy first, then absorbing, then quiet, then food — repeated.
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Make Up a Story With Three Things
A character, a place, and something going wrong. That is enough for almost any child to be away.
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A Masking Tape Obstacle Course
One roll of tape turns a hallway into a course to balance, jump and crawl along. Works in a flat, upstairs, in the rain.
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Getting the Energy Out in a Small Room
Four ways to wear a child out indoors without breaking anything or annoying the neighbours downstairs.
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Collect the Leaves, Then Sort Them
A bag, a walk, and a kitchen table. The collecting is half of it and the sorting is the other half.
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Scooping Out a Pumpkin
The insides are the best part. Scooping is a proper sensory activity, and the washed seeds do a week of counting afterwards.
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Winter Play When It Is Too Cold to Go Out
Ice, torches, dens and paper snowflakes. The four things that reliably fill a dark afternoon.
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An Egg Hunt That Works for Every Age
The same hunt, three difficulty levels, so a two-year-old and a seven-year-old can play together without either being bored.
