Sent in by Pat Adams Created for games evening themed around Canada. Simple game which the Girl Guides liked playing. Give groups of 6 a piece of paper, one red and one black crayon and a dice. When ready start throwing the dice and the first person to throw: ...
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“Mother May I?”
One person is chosen to be Mother (or Father) and stands at one end of a room while everybody else lines up against the wall on the other side (if playing outdoors choose a tree or object for the ‘Mother’ to stand by and everybody else to make their...
Maypole
Kit Logan 2001 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. An ice breaker created in 2001 for a women’s Christian retreat to meet the needs of 80+ ladies with theme of “Weaving new patterns”. Tip: This best played once everybody has arrived… doesn’t work...
Story Ladders
Similar to the game Ladders, but needs a bit (or a lot!) of preparation in advance depending on how good you are at creating stories. The game needs a fair amount of space to play so good for playing in large rooms or halls, and as there is a...
Balloon Game
Equipment: A number of balloons already inflated, with lengths of string attached. Tie a balloon on a string (at least two feet long) to each person’s ankle. The objective of the game is to be the last person with an un-popped balloon around one’s ankle. It is a fun...
Petition: Guarantee the future of state-funded nursery schools after March 2020
If you in the UK with have young children and/or have concerns about nursery places please sign the petition. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/237044 “The future of maintained nursery schools in England after March 2020 is under threat as adequate funding has not been confirmed after then when supplementary funding ends. The petitioners...
Night Wide Games
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe There’s something about doing games and activities at night in the dark that makes it just that all the more exciting for children and youth. However if you are organising or taking part in any outdoor night...
The Bug Club
If you love bugs, insects, minibeasts, etc or just interested in them and live in the UK. The Bug Club is for you. It’s for young entomologists and run by the Amateur Entomologists Society offering a bi-monthly magazine, special events, an annual open day at the Oxford University Museum...
Mindbender: Nine Dots
Without lifting pen from paper join these nine dots with four straight lines. NEXT > Save Save Save Save Save Save Save by
Things you may not have known about Milton Keynes
I lived in Milton Keynes while I was studying at the Open University and then later commuting from Milton Keynes to London. It’s a rather unusual town in being a totally ‘new’ town, the layout of the vast majority of it was planned from scratch. The information here is...