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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. …