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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

Quick Reflexes

Age Range: All age groups
Players Required: 2 or more, plus parent
Materials: A stick, bat, pole or spinning plate, plus chalk.

Directions:
The parent should rest the pole or plate upright on the floor, held by a finger.

Ask the players to stand in a semicircle or line about two metres (six feet) away from you, and tell them that when you let go of the pole, or spin the plate, you will call out one of the players' names.

This player must run and grab the pole before it drops to the ground, or the plate before it stops spinning.

If he succeeds, he scores a point, and can release the pole, or spin the plate and call for the next player to grab it.

Carry on for as long as the players are enjoying the game, and then see who has scored the most points to find a winner.


Write

Description: The Sight of Dew on a Spider's Web in the Early Morning Sun

Explanation: Explain how paper is made.

Think

General Knowledge Quiz #2

See if you know the answers to these questions. If you don't, find out from an encyclopaedia.

Science

  1. Name the three different branches of the mammal family.
  2. Name three chemical elements with the letter 'H' in their chemical symbol.

English

  1. What is a gerund?
  2. When is a semi-colon used?

Music

  1. Which great musical composer became stone deaf?
  2. In the Beatles' medley, played on 'Abbey Road', who is Mean Mr. Mustard's sister?

Finished? Check your answers.

 

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