How do you teach your children about consent? Many of us find it difficult talking about consent with our children or even fully really understanding it. For instance, were you brought up being told you need/have to give a relative a hug or kiss even if you did not...
Educational
It’s only natural…
a post in February 2019 piqued my interest. It was the above image of the microbial handprint of Tasha Sturm's own 8-year-old child after he had been playing outside... ...outdoor and messy play is important not just for children's development, but health as well.
Profit
aka “Lemonade Stand”Credited to Elzbth343 Hi I have heard of and played a game called Lemonade stand and how you play is you first start off with $20.00 you use that money to buy products for the lemonade you make. Like on hot days you want to buy more...
Terrorist Hunt
(c) Kit Logan, 2001 This game is designed to provoke discussion and help demonstrate the problem of hunting down terrorists. The object of this game is to hunt down the terrorists with as few a number of civilian casualties as possible. To be effective you need around 20 or...
Satan’s Revenge
Submitted by Michelle Demarest, Inspiration Youth Traveling Theatre Troupe ..We talk about how this game relates to the real world after we play. This game is very addictive Useful game with a lot of potential for Christian teaching and how elements of the game relate to the real world....
String Toss
Get a spool of string or yarn. Everybody playing has to answer a question of some sort (theme) when the ball of string is in their hands. Once they have answered the question they throw the ball of string to another player, but keep hold of the thread so...
Memory Game
Children love playing this and often beat any adults when doing so. Typically it is played using special packs of matched pairs of cards which you can buy or if you have the time you can makeup yourself, or you can play this with a normal pack of playing...
Jonah and the Whale
Pamela Bennet:I take the Anchor Boys within my church. There are only eight of them and it is very difficult to play the ‘traditional’ big wide games that they like, one of the games that we do play is called “Jonah and the Whale”. It is a version of...
Facebook Like Farming Scams
Dorset Police Cyber Crime Unit have posted a nice piece about Facebook ‘Like Farming’, those pages which look a bit too good to be true, free holidays, free smart phones, free flights, etc. Just for liking, commenting and/or sharing the post. That’s not to say some companies don’t offer...
Hidden worship
This game was originally called “Communist Church” credited to Jason Gross, but attitudes shift and it’s not just Christianity that is persecuted. Essentially it’s a game to put across what it feels like to have to meet in secret because of your religious beliefs. Set up: Needs to be...