British weather is so predictable in its unpredictability! It has been boiling for the past few weeks, but the moment the little ones break up for the holidays and can actually go out and enjoy doing lots of ou...
At the weekends I volunteer at Great Ormond Street in their weekend club. I have been doing it for over 4 ½ years, and really love it. Normally I do something called Team Teen, which means I (and my partner) fo...
I have made many busy bags over the years, but sometimes nothing can beat some good old-fashioned pen and paper games. Here are my top 10 favourites (in no particular order):
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I'm so excited, in a few weeks we are off to LA! Which means that I have started putting together a small collection of busy bags to take with us. For trips like this I try to take a couple of new ones. Ones...
I have to say, the weather for most of the summer holidays has been pretty good. Today however was the first day where it was really gloomy and almost misty. Don’t get me wrong I love these types of days, but n...
Spoons may seem like an odd name for a card game, but it is one the greatest games out there. I used to play it when I worked for Disney Cruise Line. It was so popular that we even had it timetabled into the cr...
Five field Kono originates from Korea and is an abstract strategy game along the same sort of lines as Chinese checkers. I’m sure you could pick up a board online, but I thought it would be fun to make my own t...
Mancala is a game that has been around for thousands of years. It is believed to have originated in Africa or the Middle East. Most versions have different names but they all fall into this mancala type game. ...
I do love a good brain teaser. I learnt a few of these while I was a guest on board the Disney Magic. Our server used to give them to us while we waited for our food to arrive. Some of them I got quickly, other...
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I recently came across this classroom game and fell in love with it. Although it would p...
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