There’s a much greater awareness now of how important plants are for the ecology of the planet and keeping us alive. However, it’s perhaps less known just how intricately interwoven…
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Lost my first ship!! Fully kitted out Heron (combat and core probes, launcher, data and relic analysers, combat drones, decent afterburner, and few other things I’ve forgotten) stupid mistake. Scanned…
Playing and experimenting with light is a lot of fun. Especially for children. Light painting is a particular photography technique that captures how any torch or light source is moved…
More a series of posts about my personal journey with EVE Online. A massive multiplayer online game of space exploration, commerce, industry, combat and/or piracy amongst some of the more common roles you choose to take on.
There’s lots of things you can do with bubbles. Experiment yourself with bubble mixtures (look out for the ‘catchable’ bubble mixtures which allow you to catch and hold bubbles without…
How to Face Paint: 5 Things You Must Know Before Getting Started Hardly a fete or event goes by without somebody offering face painting (certainly in the UK), its simple…
Install this on your smartphone and get your children to install it as well. You might not use it often, but it could save a life or just help you…
Easy to set up team challenge, that’s useful for using up old newspapers and recycling old paper or cardboard. Although if working in separate teams, each team should have exactly…
Paper-based challenges are easy to set up – just requiring a lot of old newspapers and/or magazines. I’ve used both A Bridge Too Far and Tower very successfully at playschemes.…
Prefabricate a long narrow clear tube with a watertight seal at both ends. Bore a large hole in the side at one end, large enough to pass a key through,…
Team challenge and could be used as an ice-breaker, although it could be organised to provide a challenge at the individual level. Put a plastic duck in the bottom of…
Egg based challenges. All the following activities/challenges are based on using eggs. Some are messier than others. Egg Launcher An excellent finale activity whereby teams build a catapult to launch…
Teams are given a selection of valuable & worthless antiquities. Teams then participate in three rounds: Try Me: Guess the original use of the exhibit Auction House: Establish the value…
Fun but definitely a challenge and good team exercise requiring teams (or pairs) to pitch a tent. However, the individual or individuals doing the actual pitching are blindfold and not…
A good way to encourage upcycling and reuse of scrap materials. The challenge is for teams to source the materials, design and build a go-kart they can use to race.…
Simple, but fun team, family or just individual challenge. Taking advantage of what smartphones (or if you have them digital cameras) you have available. As teams or individuals seek out…