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Welcome to Fun, Fitness and Learning, a resource site for parents, teachers, childcare workers, Cub Scout Leaders, Sunday School teachers, and anyone else who supervises or entertains children.

Here you'll find games, activities and resources for children between the ages of 7 and 16. There are books to buy, free games to download and new free activities each week.

Explore the links above to see what's on offer. Below you'll find an introduction to two of my books, plus this week's crop of activities to encourage playing, writing and thinking.

Games for Groups Large & small

Fun, Fitness & Learning coverGames for Fun, Fitness and Learning is a wonderful resource for parents, teachers, childcare workers, Cub Scout leaders, home-schooling families, and anyone else who supervises or entertains groups of children.

The book contains 339 activities, and is divided into three main sections: physical and mental, life skill, and educational. The physical and mental games are for fun and fitness, and can be enjoyed at birthday parties, family get-togethers and weekend outings. The life skill games are designed especially for Cub and Brownie Leaders, and include map and compass reading, knotting, first aid, home safety and outdoor cooking. The educational games include fun activities in maths, English, science, history, geography, foreign languages, art and music. Teachers and home-schooling families will find this section instructive, stimulating and very unusual.

The games are suitable for 7 to 17 year olds, and some of the activities will stretch the minds of even the cleverest teenagers.

Family Games cover

While Games for Fun, Fitness and Learning is perfect for larger groups, Family Games contains over 300 games specially designed for entertaining and teaching small groups of children (from 1 to 6 players).

Family Games is organised along the same lines as Games for Fun, Fitness and Learning, with sections devoted to physical and mental games, life skills, and educational games.

 

This week's Activities: Play

Grab the Treasure

Age Range: All age groups

Players Required: 2 or more, plus parent

Materials: 1 shoe

Directions: Sit the players on the ground equidistant from the Treasure (shoe).

The parent calls out the names of two of the players who must race to grab the treasure.

The player who grabs it, then tries to return to his place with it. The other player must try to tip him before he reaches home. If he catches him, the player must drop his treasure on the floor, at his feet.

The pair competes again, trying to grab the treasure from where it was dropped and return home with it, until someone succeeds.

Repeat the game until all the players have had a go. Keep score to find a winner.

Write

Story: Triangle Child in Geometry Land

Report: The Planet You Find Most Interesting

Think

General Knowledge Quiz #9

See if you know the answers to these questions. If you don?t, find out from an encyclopaedia or atlas.

Geography

  1. At what angle is the Earth tilted?
  2. At what angle from the Equator is the Antarctic Circle?
  3. At what number of degrees longitude is the Greenwich Meridian?

History

  1. What was the Boston Tea Party?
  2. Who was the first historian, what book did he write, and when did he live?

Maths

  1. Without using a calculator, find the answer to this problem:
    1.003 x 0.0014

Finished? Check your answers.

 

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