Personalised Mugs Art idea supplied by Ewan McDougal One of the problems often found with children’s craft activities is what to do with the art work after it’s done. My favourite craft activities are always the ones that leave you with something that you can use afterwards. After all...
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Ball Runs
Children of all ages (as well as a few adults!) love ball runs, depending on how they are designed. The basic concept is relatively simple, using materials that can guide an appropriate sized ball or marble, put these together to create a course or run that allows the ball...
Bugs and Butterflies
Bugs & butterflies is a game you can play with a Treasure hunt / Scavenger hunt. As you go around on the hunt, list the things you see...
Scavenger Hunts
As simple as ABC… Split into teams. Leader selects a letter of the alphabet and sets a time limit. Players then have to collect or list as many things as possible beginning with the letter. Team finding the most wins. Ingenuity Leader sets out a list of list of...
Star Game
Equipment: Any small unbreakable object. Divide into any number of equal teams (4 are shown here) with each team standing in line legs apart facing the middle where the object is placed. Number each member of the team from the middle outwards so that all the 1’s are nearest...
Marching Madness
Equipment: Several pieces of rope or cloth long enough to tie two ankles together Can be done as a competition with teams competing against each other or as a fun thing to do with one group of people. Set up by having the group/team members standing in file, the...
Marble Rolling
Equipment: Bag of Marbles Preparation: Draw a chalk circle (about 1 metre in diameter) at one end of the room and a line several meters away to stop teams getting too close The room is marked out as described above. Each team takes up position behind the line and...
Puzzled
Sent in by Jessica Lake Due to the nature of the game it probably would not work well with younger children. Teens and adults will probably find this game more fun. The game/puzzle activity helps develop team working skills, brainstorming techniques while introducing or develop the concept of generic...
Follow the Leader
Can either be done as a one large group or break into smaller ones. The larger the group the less likely it will be for everybody to be synchronized. Each group nominates a leader who then proceeds to carry out a series of actions which everybody else then has...
Exhaustion
Find anything handy which would make good obstacles, E.g. chairs, tables, benches, skipping ropes, netting (for going under) or handy assault course if one happens to be near by 🙂 Then arrange the items in the most imaginative, safe but tricky and exhausting route possible. Also keep in mind...