Lock-Down

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

From experience we know how much children like building marble runs from the specialist sets you can get. BUT you don’t actually need the specialist sets to create a run.…