- How many activities you can accomplish on the Activity Bingo card? Download the Activity Bingo card from Parks and Recreation Ontario and get started! To help you out, there is an Activity Guide with ideas on how to fulfill each category for different age groups.
- Summer Scavenger Hunt
- Historical Walking Tours right here in North Dumfries. Remember physical distancing protocols (keeping 2 metres apart from others) while your family is out for a walk.
- Family Dance Party with 57 awesome family dance party jams from every decade from 1950 to 2020.
- Langs is now offering Virtual Programming, visit their website for more information.
- The rare Charitable Research Reserve has shared a list of activities, experiments, games and workshops.
- The Region of Waterloo Library has online access to favourite newspapers and magazines, and links to online resources for entertainment or research.
- Follow Early Years Info Waterloo Region on Facebook and Twitter for activities for young children.
- Nature At Home activities from Grand River Conservation Authority.
- Kids Corner - police themed activities for kids from our friends at Waterloo Regional Police Service.
- Fire safety for kids with Sparky School House.
- Activities for the kids from the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.
- Jumpstart - check out their fun ideas to keep kids active at home and for fun tips from their partner programs, including ways to stay connected and engaged with Jumpstart Athlete Ambassadors
- Listen to the birds in your neighbourhood and learn a new bird call.
- Safari At Home activities from African Lions Safari to keep your little monkeys entertained.
- Toronto Zoo is bringing the zoo to you through links to resources, live cams, videos and more.
- Paint rocks and leave them around your neighbourhood to brighten someone's day.
- Make rainbow bubble snakes in your backyard.
- Create an indoor mini putt course. Use different objects throughout your home to make this as challenging as possible. For the holes use plastic cups on their side to hit the ball into. If you don't have a golf putter think of different ways to play with either a hockey stick, your hand, foot etc. Keep score and see who can complete the course in the least amount of shots!.
- Indoor Obstacle Course:
- Crawl under a string or a sheet like a limbo
- Crawl under or over some chairs
- Walk one foot in front of the other on an imaginary balance beam
- Run while balancing a beanbag or a stuffed animal on your head
- Somersault from one area to another
- Throw a sock into a laundry basket
- Crab walk
- Bear walk
- Slither like a snake
- Walk backwards
- Walk sideways
- Dance move, strike a pose
- Pile some pillows to turn them into a “mountain” you must climb over
- Use a toy car on the floor to challenge your child to push it from one station to the next without using their hands
Time yourselves to see how fast you can do the obstacle course!
- Build a time capsule:
Pick and create things to put into a time capsule; put everything in a shoe box or a container and put it somewhere safe in your home. Open it up in a year, 5 years, or 10 years.
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Mayor Foxton's Chocolate Chip Cookies
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup margarine or butter
1/3 cup shortening
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 cup chopped nuts (Optional)
1 (6 oz.) package chocolate chips
Heat oven to 375F. Mix sugars, margarine, shortening, egg and vanilla. Stir in remaining ingredients.
Drop by rounded spoonful about 2 inches apart on a ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until light brown, 8 to 10 minutes (I do 11 to 12 minutes) Cool slightly, remove from cookie sheet.
Councillor Gillespie's Rhubarb Pie
Mix 4 cups chopped fresh rhubarb with:
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup flour
After mixing well add:1 ¼ cup brown sugar
Mix well again and add:2 eggs
Mix well and add to pie shell. Bake at 425F for 20 minutes and then at 350F for 30 minutes. Delicious warm and served with ice cream or whipped cream!
CAO McNeely's Jambalaya
3 Slices of bacon cut in 2.5 cm pieces
5 links of sausage (Oktoberfest)
½ cup diced ham
½ cup chopped onion
2 green or multi coloured peppers diced
1 cup uncooked short grain rice
1-796 ml can diced tomatoes, drained
1 tsp. finely chopped garlic
1 tsp salt
½ tsp. thyme
Pinch of black pepper
1 ½ cups chicken broth
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brown bacon and sausage until crisp, drain on paper towel. Cook onions over medium heat until transparent. Add peppers and cook a few minutes longer. Add rice and cook over medium heat stirring constantly until rice is lightly opaque. Stir in tomatoes, garlic, salt, thyme and pepper. Add bacon, sausage and ham. Mix well. Transfer to casserole dish and add chicken broth. Place in oven and cook 45 to 60 minutes until rice is cooked and broth is almost completely absorbed.
Revenue/Tax Collector Victoria's Healthy Strawberry Coconut Cream Popsicles
3 cups fresh sliced strawberries (approx. 1 1/2 pounds)
1 13 1/2-ounce can full-fat coconut milk
1/4 cup raw honey
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Combine strawberries, coconut milk, honey, and vanilla extract in a blender or food processor. Process until smooth.
- Pour evenly into a popsicle mold.
- Freeze for about an hour, then insert popsicle sticks and then freeze overnight, or for 6-8 hours.
- To remove from the mold, let popsicles stand at room temperature for 5 minutes.
CSR Melinda's Protein Packed Bagels
2 cups flour (all purpose or whole wheat)
4 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoon salt
2 cups Greek yogurt
1 egg (for coating)
Mix all ingredients well and form into individual bagel shapes. Not too thick or else the finished bagels will have a moist texture. Brush with beaten egg. Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees. If tops are not golden, bake for an additional 4-7 minutes.
Note- if you like everything bagels, mix a half teaspoon of garlic powder and a half teaspoon onion powder and add to the bagel mix. Dip in poppyseeds after coating.
Any seeds are a great addition (sesame, flax etc.). Just dip uncooked bagel in seed choice after coating in egg.
Keep refrigerated after cooling.
Toasting prior to enjoying is recommended. They keep for approximately 4 days and make about ten small bagels.
CSR Denise's Teriyaki Chicken and Noodle Bowl (a family favourite!)
Ingredients:
4 Chicken Thighs, boneless and skinless
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper
3 Large Carrots
1 Red Pepper
8 Mushrooms
½ a Red Onion
One 16 oz package of Angel Hair Pasta
Teriyaki Sauce:
1 ½ cups of cold water
¾ cup packed Brown Sugar
½ Cup Soy Sauce
1 tsp garlic powder
1 Tbsp Corn Starch
1 Tsp sesame oil
- With a good pair of kitchen scissors, cut up your chicken thighs into strips. Heat a large skillet on medium high heat. Add your oil and toss those thighs right in. sprinkle with salt and pepper. Let them cook for about 10 minutes, stirring frequently. You want them to get nice and golden brown on each side.
- While chicken is cooking, chop up your veggies. You want to be sure they are chopped pretty small. No big chunks.
- Start the water boiling for your pasta and cook according to package directions.
- When the chicken is cooked through, remove it from the pan and let it hang out on a plate. Add the other Tablespoon of oil to your hot pan. Add the veggies and cook until they are crisp tender.
- While your veggies are cooking mix all Teriyaki Sauce ingredients together in a medium size bowl.
- Once your veggies are cooked, remove them from the pan and let them hang out with the chicken.
- Pour your Teriyaki Sauce into the hot pan. Whisk it around until it thickens up. This should only take about 3 minutes.
- Serve it up! Place hot pasta in a bowl or on a plate. Put the chicken and veggies on top, pour the sauce over the whole kit and caboodle and you are ready to eat.
Recreation & Community Services Coordinator Michelle's Apfelpfannkuchen (German Apple Pancake)
6 eggs
1 ½ cups buttermilk (regular 1% or 2% milk works too)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
3 Tbsp granulated sugar
½ tsp salt
¼ cup butter
4 apples, peeled and sliced (use 5-6 for smaller apples)
• Preheat oven to 425° F.
• In a bowl, mix eggs, milk, flour, sugar, and salt.
• Put butter in 10 x 13 inch baking dish that is sprayed with a non-stick cooking spray and place dish in oven until butter is melted.
• Add apple slices to baking dish and leave in oven until butter sizzles. This can take about 5 minutes. Don’t let the apples get brown.
• Remove baking dish from oven and pour batter over apples. Return to oven and bake 20 minutes or until browned and nicely puffed.
• Serve immediately. Makes 4 - 6 servings.
Stay tuned for more recipes from Township Council and Staff!
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- Need a short movement break? Download the Participation Canada app and use the awesome ‘Take 10’ function anytime you feel like squeezing some activity into your day.
- The YMCAs of Cambridge & Kitchener-Waterloo have everything you need to stay healthy and moving at home; recipes, online workouts, wellness tips and fun for the whole family.
- Free online yoga classes and guided meditation by the NDCC’s yoga instructor, Angela Bryson of ANGELS-LANDING Yoga & Wellness.
- Wellbeing Waterloo Region - In response to COVID-19, Wellbeing Waterloo Region has added COVID related events to their calendar. These listings are events and programming related to general wellbeing that have been adapted to become virtual.
- Calming crafts - relax and de-stress while being creative.
- Dance to music, play active video games, skip rope, and remember to stretch and move after long periods of sitting (at least once per hour)
- Start a nature journal. Look out the window each day and record what you see (birds, flowers, shapes in the clouds etc.)
- Start a plank challenge with your family (or friends via video chat). Start by trying to hold a plank for 30 seconds. Record your time, and each day challenge each other to beat your personal records.
- Olympic Challenge
The summer Olympics might be cancelled, but you can recreate an Olympic experience at home. Set up a bunch of different games and see who gets the gold medal!
Here are some events to try to crown your champions:
• Long Jump - Set up an open space and use tape to mark who jumped the furthest.
• High Jump - Give each person’s name written on a piece of tape and see how high they can jump by placing the tape as high as they can on a wall with their hand as they jump.
• Hallway or Sidewalk Dash - Time who is the fastest runner in the house. Run from point A to point B, and time each person.
• “Cycling” - Using your bike, scooter, rollerblades, skateboard time who is the fastest from one light post to and back outside.
To make it more fun design your own team flags, medals and have a medal ceremony for the events!
- Total Body Fusion Workout – our friends from City of Cambridge have a workout on YouTube you can do at home.
- Working from home and sitting through a lot of Zoom meetings? Fit these stretches in between meetings! Thank you to our friends at the City of Cambridge for this helpful tip.
- Enjoy a walk or jog (maintaining physical distancing of 2 metres from others) with intervals of yoga, ab blasts, cardio and stretching with your small children. With thanks to the City of Cambridge for this Stroller Fit resource.
- Spell your name fitness challenge:
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