Weekend · Outdoors

Skip a stone five times

Find flat rocks. Stay until they hit five.

45 min ages 6–13· Outdoor· Screen-free

How to do it

Find a pond, lake, or calm river. Hunt flat, palm-sized rocks together. Demonstrate: sidearm throw, wrist flick, parallel to water. They'll do one-skip bombs at first. Stay until they hit five — even if it takes an hour.