Educational

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…

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…

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…

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…