Welcome!

Fun, Fitness & Learning coverWelcome 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 this week's crop of activities to encourage playing, writing and thinking.

Play

Ruler and sticky tape game

Age Range: All age groups

Materials: 1 ruler and 1 large reel of sticky tape.

Directions: First of all, pass the ruler around the group and ask the players to mime an object that is about the same sort of shape. e.g.) The ruler could represent a conductor's baton, a pencil, a telescope, a harmonica, a moustache or a toothbrush.

When all the players have had a go, pass around the sticky tape (Scotch tape), and let the players think of objects that this shape could represent. e.g.) a bangle, a bowl, a Frisbee, a hat, a halo, a doughnut, and so on.

The more imaginative the mimes are, the more fun the game will be.

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, what is the answer to this problem: 1.003 × 0.0014?

Finished? Check your answers.

 

plants