50 things children must do before they are 10!

This list could be adapted to suit any place where children abide and it is infinite - Learning by Doing!

1. Read Storm Boy before heading to the Coorong.

2. See the scoreboard tick over at Adelaide Oval and learn the Don's career batting average off-by-heart.

3. Eat a pie floater with lots and lots of sauce.

4. Go on a tour of Government House and learn about Dame Roma Mitchell (Hint: her statue is out the front).

5. Snorkel through a school of fish on Port Noarlunga reef.

6. Climb in and around a Moreton Bay fig in the Botanic Park.

7. Walk over the causeway and all the way around Granite Island - you're sure to see a penguin or maybe even a seal.

8. Go whale watching at Bashams Beach at Port Elliot.

9. Pick and eat your weight in strawberries at Beerenberg Farm, Hahndorf.

10. Find and swim in the rock pool at Stokes Bay on Kangaroo Island.

11. Catch a local tree frog tadpole in Brown Hill Creek.

12. Wave through the underwater windows at Burnside Swimming Centre's middle pool.

13. Get your parents to take you to a Dawn Service on Anzac Day.

14. Watch a Wanderer butterfly come out of its chrysalis. It's probably happening in your backyard right now.

15. Catch and keep a skink for a week and then let it go.

16. Relive The Hobbit on the Children's Storybook Trail at Carrick Hill.

17. Watch how they make a Haigh's giant chocolate frog at the Greenhill Rd, Parkside, factory and then eat one.

18. Make a drippy sand castle at Port Willunga, and then watch the waves wash it away.

19. Breathe air from the South Pole at the top of the Bluff at Encounter Bay.

20. Read all the plaques of the famous South Australians in the pavement on North Tce, city.

21. Eat a mint leaf to understand how Mint Patties got their name.

22. See the cow patty throwing at the Mt Compass show.

23. Fish for squid off the jetty at Second Valley.

24. Watch the Port River dolphins play.

25. Ride a paddle boat on the River Torrens.

26. Challenge your friends to a crab-raking competition at St Kilda

27. Get knocked over by a wave at Middleton and get back up.

28. Visit the Medlow Confectionery & FruChoc Showcase store in McLaren Vale.

29. Endure the wait to ride a miniature train at Millswood.

30. Pat a guinea pig at the Farm Barn in Handorf.

31. Dig for pipis on Goolwa beach.

32. Ride the Cockle train from Victor Harbour to Port Elliott.

33. Explore the tugboat Yelta at Port Adelaide

34. Smell the roses in the rose garden on South Tce, city.

35. Catch a yabby and cook it for dinner.

36. Ride the Popeye to the Zoo.

37. Cycle from the city to Henley Beach with your family along the Linear Park.

38. Play tennis at Belair National Park.

39. Win a round of mini golf at West Beach.

40. Ride the historic tram at St Kilda.

41. Enjoy an ice cream after paddling a boat at Rymil Park.

42. Watch the police greys in a parade.

43. Zip down the waterslides at Marion Aquatic Centre.

44. Get freaked out by the mummies at the South Australian museum.

45. Create a masterpiece at the START program at the Art Gallery.

46. Watch the wood-chopping at the Royal Show.

47. Take the tram to Glenelg for a day at the Beach House.

48. Ride the antique carousel at Semaphore.

49. Plant some bulbs in autumn - and watch them burst into flower in spring.

50. Fall on the ice at The Barton skating rink.