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These activities for 5-year-olds and older are perfect for staving off boredom.

Do you struggle with thinking of fun activities to keep your child entertained on the weekends and after school? You’re not alone! It can certainly be difficult to come up with unique activities for kids. And although it might be easy to just pop in a movie or allow your little one to play games on the tablet, psychologist and play expert Dr. Jacqueline Chinappi, of South University in Savannah, Georgia, urges you to remember that too much screen time can contribute to behavioral problems, obesity and attention issues.

In today’s digital world, this is a growing concern. In fact, according to Dr. Anne Fishel, of the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, children around 8 years old at times have up to 11 hours of screen time per day.

Help your little one exercise their mind and body by trying out these 101 fun activities for 5- to 8-year-olds.

Make a batch of homemade play dough.
Go on a nature walk and collect leaves or rocks.
Move the furniture around so your little gymnast can practice their tumbles.
Play “Go Fish.”
Make a fort out of blankets and pillows.
Plant flowers in the garden.
Camp out in the backyard.
Read a classic children’s book out loud together.

Learn to ride a bike.
Go berry picking.
Bake a pie using your freshly picked berries.
Grab some binoculars and go birdwatching.
Learn how to play the recorder.
Make sock puppets.
Press flowers and put them in a scrapbook.
Build a model airplane.

Learn how to knit.
Visit your local zoo.
Visit a farmers’ market.
Play dress-up.
Learn how to braid hair.
Grab some chalk and decorate the sidewalk.
Have an outdoor picnic.
Observe insects through a magnifying glass.

Is it raining? Have a picnic indoors instead!

Visit animals at a pet store. (Just try not to bring them all home!)
Make a map of your house or apartment.
Learn how to jump rope.
Make a guitar out of a box and rubber bands.
Visit your neighbors.
Bake brownies.
Pop some popcorn, and snuggle up to watch some home movies.

Plant a vegetable garden.
Build a snowman.
Have a snowball fight.
Make a pizza with all your favorite toppings.
Visit a pumpkin patch.
Make friendship bracelets.
Turn a pine cone into a bird feeder by adding some peanut butter and birdseed.
Learn a magic trick.

Cut out homemade paper dolls.
Play freeze tag.
Play “Simon Says.”
Interview a grandparent.
Get out a bag of hair ties and create some fun hairdos.
Go to the library.

Go on a hike.
Build a sandcastle.

Have a tea party with real tea and snacks.
Cut out pictures from magazines to make a collage.
Play “Red Light/Green Light.”
Color!
Write an original song.
Take turns drawing each other’s portraits.
Paint each other’s fingernails.
Play “Hide-and-Seek.”

Teach your dog or cat how to do some tricks.
Make your own bubble solution.
Lay out an ice cream sundae bar.
Play “Follow the Leader.”
Tie-dye T-shirts.
Have a fashion show.
Feed ducks at a local pond or lake.
Make shadow puppets on the wall.

Play a board game.
Turn craft foam into bath floats.
Make pinch pots out of air-dry clay.
Slice apples and turn them into paint stamps.
Turn your living room into a winter wonderland with toilet paper, cotton balls and pillows.
Break out your makeup and let your child give you a new look.
Put on a play.
Do a word search.
Visit a local farm.
Run through a sprinkler.

Make nature crafts.
Learn how to hula hoop.
Make muffin tin crayons.
Cut snowflakes out of paper.
Play mini golf.
Make hot chocolate.
Lie down in your backyard, and talk about the shapes you see in the clouds.
Create a secret handshake.
Go fishing.
Put together a puzzle.

Play musical chairs.
Learn how to do a cartwheel.
Make rainbow foam.
Create a paper chain with colorful construction paper.
Learn how to play checkers.
Make a drum out of an oatmeal container.
Visit a science museum.
Learn a new language.
Make leaf and tree rubbings with paper and crayons.
Catch fireflies.

Go for a drive with no destination.
Make a sundial out of paper plates.
Play “Duck, Duck, Goose.”
Build a dream house out of Legos.
Have your child write a letter to her favorite book character.
Do a crossword puzzle.
Find rocks outside and paint them.

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55+ Easy Activities for 5 Year Olds

AHEAD: Banish boredom in your house with these 55+ super fun hands on and easy activities and crafts for 5 year olds or kindergartners.

Do you have a 5 year old or kindergartner at home? Then this is the ultimate list for you. Here are 55+ amazing activity ideas to do with your 5 year old or kindergartner. From building an aquarium to making 2 ingredient silly putty to making paper houses and cork boats, there are tons and tons of really cool ideas your 5 year old will love.

This amazing list is organized into 4 sections:

Boredom Busting Activities
Arts & Crafts
Fun Learning Activities
Sensory Activities

OK Let the fun begin!

Boredom Busting Activities for 5 Year Olds

Make a chalk maze – create a maze for toy cars using sidewalk chalk

2. Build a backyard obstacle course outside.

3. Build a fort – used blankets, cushions and chairs to build the ultimate retreat nook. Dontas forget to add lots and lots of books!

4. Build a marble Run – use cardboard, construction paper, tape and marbles. Roll the construction paper up to make a tube and tape them to the cardboard to make a marble run.

5. Make silly putty.

6. Giant Dots and Boxes.

7. Play with giant water beads.

8. Nature Tea Party – Collect things from your backyard like rocks, leaves, dirt and flowers to make a nature tea using your favourite tea set or a jug and cups.

9. Spray Bottle Water Fights.

10. Magnetic Tile Ramps.

11. DIY Post-It Dominoes.

Arts & Crafts for 5 Year Olds

12. Three Marker Colouring Challenge – Close your eyes and choose three markers from a pile. Use those colours and only those three colours to colour a favourite coloring page.

13. Make crazy hats – Construction paper, tape and scissors. Create the craziest looking hats you can using cut out lighten bolts, spirals, and different shapes.

14. Make a paper house.

15. Build Easter Egg Boats

16. Draw to music.

17. Giant Nail Painting Activity.

18. Make a garden sensory bottle.

19. Paint Kindness Rocks – paint rocks using washable paints and brushes and once dry write kind messages on them.

20. Textured Rainbow Sun Catcher Craft

21. Family Portrait Sticky Wall.

22. Make An Aquarium.

23. Cardboard Picture Frame Craft

24. Giant Baby Doll Colouring – Not into baby dolls? Trace cars and trucks to decorate them!

25. Textured Heart Sun Catcher Craft

26. Potato Masher Ice Cream Craft

27. Gems and Water Colour Flower Craft

Fun Learning Activities for 5 Year Olds

28. Baby Doll Haircuts.

29. Colour by Addition – Parents write simple addition or subtraction problems in each section of a colouring paper. Then create a key idenifitin which colour each answer should be. For instance if the answer is 3 then colour that second red.

30. Shaving Cream Sight Word Game.

31. Build The Alphabet Sticky Wall

32. Spray Bottle Letters – use a spray bottle to make letters on a fence or on a sidewalk.

33. Ice Cream Skip Counting Sticky Wall – Supplies: contact paper, masking tape, foam sheets, scissors and black sharpie.

34. Build A Magnetic Tile Clock – use magnetic tiles to make a giant clock. Use post it notes for the numbers or washable chalk markers.

35. Rubber Duck Math Race

36. DIY Egg Carton Ten-Frame Game

37. Magnetic Tile Ten Frame Game

38. Ocean Sight Word Sensory Bin

39. Ten Frame Sensory Bag

40. Dot Sticker Sight Words

41. One More One Less with Dot Stickers

42. Post-it Memory Game

43. Mystery Math: A Crayon Resist Activity

44. Toilet Paper Roll Skip Counting

Sensory Activities for 5 Year olds

45. Cork Boat Sensory Bin – make boats out of corks, elastic bands, toothpicks and foam sheets for the sails. Fill a sensory bin with water and blue food colouring, fish, sharks and sea shells.

46. Ocean Sensory Bottles

47. Wash the Horses Sensory Bin – fill a sensory bin with water and bubble bath to make bubbles. Add horse toys, combs and wash clothes.

48. Cloud Dough Kitchen

49. Textured Playdough Activity

50. One- Step Slime Sensory Bin

51. Under The Sea Bath

52. Make Shaving Cream Worms – use shaving cream, colander and a large bowl to make shaving cream worms. Turn large bowl upside down, cover the top with shaving cream, press colander down on the shaving cream to let it squeeze through the holes of the colander.

53. Shaving Cream and Baby Doll Sensory Bin

54. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Sensory Bin

55. PAW Patrol Play Dough Tray

56. Colour Mixing Tea Party

WILL YOU DO ANY OF THESE ACTIVITIES WITH YOUR 5 YEAR OLD? PIN IT FOR LATER!

The prosecutor explains - Prosecutor's office of the Yaroslavl region

Prosecutor explains

4 December 2012, 14:26

A five-year limitation period has been established for monetary obligations to the Russian Federation

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Federal Law No. 189-FZ of November 12, 2012 “On Amending the Budget Code of the Russian Federation and Recognizing Certain Provisions of Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation as Invalid” establishes a five-year limitation period for monetary obligations to the Russian Federation.

In accordance with the current wording of paragraph 4 of Article 93.4 of the Budget Code of the Russian Federation, the limitation period established by civil law does not apply to claims for monetary obligations to the Russian Federation. Since fixing excessively long limitation periods inevitably leads to procedural difficulties, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, having considered the issue of the constitutionality of these provisions, ordered the federal legislator to establish a specific time limit for the limitation period for the specified requirements. According to the amendments, this period will be five years.

In addition, the procedure for evaluating the effectiveness of the use of budgetary funds allocated for state support of innovation activities is specified - such an assessment should be carried out taking into account the requirements of the Federal Law “On Science and State Scientific and Technical Policy”.

The federal law is published in the publications: Official Internet portal of legal information http://www.pravo.gov.ru, 11/13/2012, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, No. 262, 11/14/2012, Parliamentary Gazeta, No. 39, 11/16-22/2012, "Collection of Legislation of the Russian Federation", 11/19/2012, No. 47, art. 6400.

In accordance with Article 4, this document entered into force on the day of its official publication, i.e. 11/13/2012.

A five-year limitation period has been established for monetary obligations to the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 189-FZ dated November 12, 2012 “On Amending the Budget Code of the Russian Federation and Recognizing Certain Provisions of Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation as Invalid” establishes a five-year limitation period for monetary obligations to the Russian Federation.

In accordance with Article 4, this document entered into force on the day of its official publication, i.e. 11/13/2012.

Recovery of funds in a five-year-old case

Experts assessed the decision of the Court in different ways. One pointed out that the signing of payment documents on behalf of a bank client by a third party without a power of attorney is a violation of the rules for banking operations. The second noted that banks are not required to verify the authenticity of customer signatures. And the third added that establishing the moment of violation of rights is individual in each case, so it is hardly possible to extend the position of the RF Armed Forces to other cases.

On December 26, 2011, a term deposit agreement in foreign currency was concluded between the bank and citizen M. for 366 days. In March 2014, the woman applied to the bank with a question about the status of the deposit and the amount of accrued interest, but found out that in the spring of 2012 the deposit agreement was terminated ahead of schedule, and the funds were transferred to the account of her ex-husband.

Having applied to the bank with a written claim, the woman was refused, in connection with which she applied to the court demanding the recovery of funds deposited under the term deposit agreement, losses, compensation for moral damage and a fine.

The court refused to satisfy the claim, but the appellate instance overturned this decision and issued a new one on partial satisfaction of the claims. At the same time, the appeal, guided by the conclusion of the handwriting examination, indicated that the signatures on behalf of the depositor in the application and in the payment order for the transfer of funds dated April 6, 2012 were executed by her ex-husband, therefore, transferring without the consent of citizen M. to the account of the third persons, branch employees violated banking rules. It was also revealed that the amount of money was received by a man through the cash desk of a credit organization on the basis of an expense order.

In turn, the bank filed a lawsuit against the spouse of the depositor, in which he asked to recover unjust enrichment from him. The court of first instance refused to satisfy the claims, based on the fact that the bank missed the limitation period, which was stated by the defendant, since it was calculated from April 6, 2012, since from that moment the credit institution should have known that there were no grounds for transfer of funds. The Court of Appeal came to the same conclusion.

However, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered that the decisions of the lower courts were based on an incorrect interpretation and application of the law. Based on the norms of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation in the wording in force at the time of the disputed relationship, the Court indicated that the limitation period was three years and began from the day when the person knew or should have known about the violation of his right.

In addition, the Supreme Court clarified that paragraph 3 of the Decree of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated September 29, 2015 No. 43 “On Certain Issues Related to the Application of the Rules of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation on Limitation of Actions” states that the limitation period for the requirements of a legal entity begins from the day when a person who has the right to act independently or jointly with other persons on behalf of a legal entity learned or should have known about the violation of the right of a legal entity and about who is the proper defendant.

By filing a statement of claim, the bank raised the issue of unjust enrichment on the part of the defendant before the court. The plaintiff pointed out that before the appellate instance issued a ruling on partial satisfaction of the claims of the defendant's ex-wife, he had no reason to believe that there had been unjust enrichment at the expense of a credit institution, however, the court of first and appeal instances, in violation of the above norms of substantive law and explanations of the Plenum of the Supreme Court The Russian Federation did not give a proper assessment to these arguments.

In connection with the foregoing, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided to cancel the judicial acts of lower instances and send the case for a new trial to the court of first instance.

Lawyer, secretary of the Council of Young Lawyers of the Voronezh Regional Administration Olesya Alimkina noted that this case is of interest from a substantive legal point of view. She pointed out that, on the one hand, the credit institution formally found out about the violation of the right when funds were recovered from it in favor of the defendant's ex-wife, since only this judicial act established the fact of signing documents for the disposal of money by an unauthorized person. On the other hand, the signing of payment documents on behalf of a bank client by a third party without a power of attorney is a flagrant violation of the rules for banking operations.

“The bank employee who processed the transfer of funds could not but understand that he was violating the rules and that sooner or later the depositor would recover money from the bank. If the bank employee knew about it at the time of the transaction, then from what moment should the limitation period be calculated? the expert asks. According to her, the answer to this question will largely depend on how closely banks should monitor the activities of their employees. “The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation did not give any explanations on this matter, simply pointing out that lower courts need to determine when the bank found out about the violation of its rights. This means that the intrigue remains,” said Olesya Alimkina.

Irena Nikasheva, a lawyer at Freitak & Sons Attorneys at Law, noted that in practice banks do not have sufficient tools, and are not required to verify the authenticity of client signatures presented in bank documents in the absence of significant circumstances. “In the case considered by the Court, the plaintiff was not aware that the defendant had no rights to transfer funds from the ex-wife’s account to his own account, from which it can be concluded that the bank did not violate internal banking rules and client policy,” she explained.

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