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    Quote Originally Posted by cupcakencookie View Post
    Mine wants to be a dog!
    that made me laugh
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    Anyone remember 'I want to be a tree'?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sing-low View Post
    Anyone remember 'I want to be a tree'?
    Some .. Cloud!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sing-low View Post
    Anyone remember 'I want to be a tree'?
    Yes!!! What was it from? Some kind of bank advert?
    Life is all about how you handle plan B

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    Prudential.

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    How about Cluedo? x

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    Quote Originally Posted by murphf View Post
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    Oh is that a different ad?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cupcakencookie View Post
    How about Cluedo? x
    Ooh great idea love cluedo! Anyone seen the movie of this it's called Clue., hilarious!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by murphf View Post
    Ooh great idea love cluedo! Anyone seen the movie of this it's called Clue., hilarious!!
    I love that film!!!
    Life is all about how you handle plan B

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    Quote Originally Posted by gef918 View Post
    I have a 6 yr old coming to me for a week next month - for up to 2 hours each morning. He's very bright and keen to be a forensic scientist when he's older, so I thought I'd do lots of forensic science activities. So far, I've come up with:

    making fingerprints and identifying loops, whorls and arches
    making a plaster cast of a footprint
    comparing and matching handwriting samples
    doing some simple chemical tests on household ingredients, e.g. flour, salt, sugar, baking powder
    making a facial reconstruction using playdough
    decoding a message written in invisible ink

    Any CSI fans out there who can give me more ideas?
    Oooh, this sounds like fun!

    You could do spatter pattern analysis by filling a balloon with paint and then popping with different things, from different heights and at different speeds. If you do a different paint colour each time you can see the different ways it splatters.

    How are you going to make fingerprints? The easiest way I found was to use lightly floured fingers, then touch a piece of sellotape. Works beautifully.

    If you go for a walk, you could look at the tyres of cars, vans, etc and see how they're different (width, tread pattern, etc). You could also look for animal tracks and people's footprints in all the mud around at the moment while you're at it.

    Also, collect different seeds and record them, be

    If you fill a tray with soil or compost, you could use different shoes to make imprints, then examine the patterns they leave behind. (BONUS! If you have any left over plaster from your plaster cast, spray the shoe imprint with hairspray, then carefully pour the plaster in to get a reverse impression of the shoe. The hairspray acts like glue to hold the soil together until the plaster hardens.)

    You can also do skid mark analysis with a toy car with its tyres rolled through paint, then 'skidded' along a piece of paper.

    You could also do things like trying to identify different brands of cola by a blind taste test, etc.

    Or practise being an eye witness, and do memory games. (Eye witnesses are statistically the most unreliable form of evidence).

 

 
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