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Undercover Agents

ACTIVITIES

 

Balloon Minefield

Adapted from PAGE 211. For a little more challenge, label the balloons with numbers and have your participants need to search for a certain number sequence in a given ammount of time.  Or tape/draw sticks of dynamite on the balloons.  Have only one lit that they need to search for.

 

Lazer Field PAGE 214  

If you don't have space to set up a laser field in your library, depending on the size of your group, line up four to six children each with a partner and a jump rope held between at verring heights and angles.  Rotate everyone around so they have a chance to get through the obstacle and a chance to hold the jumpropes. 

 

Laser experiments! 

For older kids you can give a short lesson on how laser beams work, Naked Scientist has an excellent video on YouTube explaining this called, "How Do Lasers Work?" Then, let the experiments begin. Keychain type lasers are plenty strong, be sure to point out to children that you should NEVER look at a laser in the eye. Wear sunglasses for the experiments for added protection and darken the room. 

  • Shine the laser light on a CD or DVD

  • Shine the laser through a SOFT (Frosted) incandescent lightbulb. 

  • Shine the laser through differnt types of drinking glasses or vases.

  • Shine the laser through a plastic bottle filled with water mixed with cornstarch.

 

OBJECTIVE: Complete the SECRET MISSION

Send your kids on a secret mission around the library. Use secret codes and decoders. Make a map of the area they will be covering so they can search the "blueprints" for the safest route. 

 

Secret agent codes are available for purchase from Etsy, with thanks to Anna Hartman for sharing about them!

CRAFTS

 

Secret Message Decoders PAGE 241 

 

SONGS, RHYMES & FUN ON THE WEB

 

Laser Show Videos

There are a number of light shows featured on YouTube including this one from Disney's movie release party for Tron Legacy.  Some of them can seem a bit long, but they are fascinating and hard to stop watching.  

 

Shadow Puppet Stories!

Put a shadow puppet story together.  Make your puppets using black construction paper or black posterboard and taping them to skewers.  Perhaps you have a character who is trying to go unnoticed in the shadows.  Hide them behind a tree, a car, a fence or any object you can think of and see if he ever finds cover.  Maybe you have two characters playing hide-and-seek.  

PASSIVE PROGRAM

 

Super Memory Game

This can be played like those images you have to find the difference between.  Make a bulleting board or poster with several identifiable objects and take a picture.  Now change a few items on the main display.  Hand out copies of the photo to patrons and see if they can identify all the changes.

  • Make it challenging by having one image on one side of the room and give them a certain ammount of time to stare at it.  Place the other image in another location in the library where they can't easily look back and forth between the two and see what they can remember. 

 

Mastermind

Fun game to set out for patrons to play together.  (It does have small parts, so perhaps you want to make a paper version of the game?)  

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