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...
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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.
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...
Lap Game
Good icebreaker game for finding things out about others…. and a useful game to have up your sleeve for big parties such as Valentines. Create a circle of chairs facing inwards so that everybody playing has a seat to themselves. There is no limit to numbers, but it’s better...
Keep Your Partner
Good game for anytime, but a nice one for any valentine theme parties 🙂 This game ‘needs’ an odd number of players, so if you are organising it be prepared to ‘take part’ or volunteer not to in order to achieve this. Players partner up either with their real...
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...
Remember
(aka Memory Game) Very good game for children of all ages for sharpening the memory! Use 20 or so different small objects and place these on a tray or table covered with a cloth. Remove the cloth and allow everybody 2 minutes (or whatever time limit you prefer) to...