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Global games for summer
By Josie Curran on 05/07/2012 12:29:35
Keep children entertained on holiday and learn about playtime all around the world these fantastic games...
.Mexican ColorinasColorinas is a traditional Mexican children’s game. It’s brilliantly portable and ideal to fill an afternoon on the beach.How to play• Dig a small hole in the ground and then draw a line about eight feet away. Each player will need a handful
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Bird Nests And Foxes - an exciting game for outdoors
By Chris Holland on 02/07/2012 17:15:20
Children can practise the skills of sitting still and creeping up with this brilliant game to play in the woods
Bird Nests And Foxes(or hedgehogs or meerkats, or any other egg-eating predators)Ages four and up, suitable for up to 30 players, allow about an hourReadyThe object of this hide-and-seek based game is for the nest makers to make a nest o the ground
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Brilliant Board Games
By Fiona McKim on 09/12/2011 12:31:48
While away a rainy day with Junior's favourite games to play
Beetle Drive £8.99 by Gibson from Mulberry Bush
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Good old fashioned games
By Judith Eagle on 02/10/2012 14:09:00
If you’re nostalgic for simple childhood pleasures, nurture your child’s imagination with spontaneous back-to-basics activities rather than expensive toys or a structured schedule of events. Try some of these more traditional play ideas
or lounge – anywhere, as long as it’s OK to make a mess. Children love elaborate pretend games and repetition, but if they always have to tidy up, it can be hard to pick up the same game they discarded the previous day. Make a miniature theatre Scaled
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Origami Fortune Tellers
By Suzanne Milne on 19/04/2010 11:00:17
Step-by-step instructions
1. Fold the two opposite ends of a square piece of paper to make a triangle, then fold the opposite ends of the triangle to make a smaller one.2. Open the paper up and fold a corner into the centre point, repeat with the opposite corner – you should now have a square.3. Turn the ...
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Family activities… for a day at the beach
By Suzanne Milne on 18/04/2010 11:47:47
Ten things to do in a day at the beach
the bullseye. 7. Run a shell race Ask everyone to line up shells where they think the waves will come to. The shell that moves the furthest wins the game.8. Play beach detective Make a list of things you might see at the beach, then have a competition to see
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Super skipping games
By Fiona McKim on 23/09/2011 10:42:45
Take a trip down memory lane with these fun childhood games
A playground classic for children of every generation, skipping games are active, fun and require little more than some rope or elastic, and a lively imagination. Here, author, Katie Hewett remembers the skipping games of her childhood:(Skipping was
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Join the fabulous Forest Games
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 09/05/2012 15:38:01
Do your children like a sporting challenge? Then get set for some outdoor fun
Commission are inviting families to join in with their fun-packed Forest Games. Taking place around the country, the Games will include a host of frivolous pursuits. Families are invited to follow a nature trail through the woods and engage in such challenges
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Spring games to play
By Clay Johnson on 23/02/2011 15:50:41
Welcome in a fabulously fun season with a host of outdoor activities
is dropped, the team goes out; if the egg is caught, the children each take a step back and throw again. The last team left with an unbroken egg wins the game.
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Brilliant Party Games From Sharky And George
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 26/12/2011 16:10:21
Make your child's birthday party one to remember with these amazing games from party pros Sharky & George
Sharky’s FootstepsWhat’s the game? Grandmother’s Footsteps for the modern generation. What do we need? A bowl of sweets. How do we play it? Everyone stands at one end of the garden/room. One person (The Shark) stands right at the far end with a bowl
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