TOP 10 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU'RE 10

Top 10 things to do before you’re 10 according to The Primary Times are: 

1. Build sandcastles on the beach
2. Go to the zoo
3. Learn to ride a bike
4. Go to a theme park
5. Go sledging
6. Bake a cake
7. Swim in the sea
8. Camp under the stars
9. Be cheered on at school sports day
10. Eat round a camp fire

Interestingly the list is breaking away from today’s stringent health and safety rules.  I’d like to add number 11: Make a dam.  That’s what these little boys loved doing.

 One of them told me exactly how they built their dams and I put it all in the book We're Going to Build a Dam

 

 

Things I did as before I was 10:

make a den in the woods, play on a raft on a pond and make up a story and illustrate it!

Any other suggestions?