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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

The floating egg

Age Range: 7 to 10 year olds

Materials: 1 egg, 1 tall glass, 1 spoon, 1 bag of salt.

Directions:

  1. Place an uncooked egg into a tall glass of water and watch it sink to the bottom. (If it floats at this stage, it is a stale egg)
  2. Now, add a large quantity of salt to the water and carefully stir it until the salt has dissolved. By the time you have finished, the egg will be floating on the surface of the water. (If it isn't, add more salt).

The reason this has happened is that the volume of salt in the water is equal to the volume of the egg, weighs more than the egg and therefore pushes the egg to the surface.

 

Write

Comparison: Compare Communism with Capitalism

Diary Entry: Imagine you live in North Korea, and write about a typical day in your life.

 

Think

General Knowledge Quiz #20

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

Science

  1. What is an alloy?
  2. What is the name of the body's main artery?
  3. What is the cornea?

English

  1. Name the male equivalent of these female animals: hen, goose, sow, doe, vixen, mare, swan, duck, cat, nanny-goat.

Art

  1. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
  2. Who painted "The Last Supper"?
  3. Who painted "The Birth of Venus"?

Finished? Check your answers.

 

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