You will need:
- Some excitable children/grown-ups
- A wall
- Some chalk
- A bean bag
- A hula hoop
- A Bucket
- Play Equipment
- A soft ball
- A plastic bottle
- A small prize (eg, choice of tonight’s telly)
- A pencil and paper
- A watch
How To Set It Up:
High Jump: Stand next to a wall, get each child to jump as
high as they can and touch their hand against the wall, put a chalk mark where
their hand touched. Highest chalk mark wins.
Shot Put Darts: Put the hula hoop flat on the ground and the
bucket inside. Mark a point a child sized throwing distance away as the
throwing line with chalk on the ground or a jumper. Give each child the bean
bag in turn and give them 3 tries to throw the beanbag into the hula hoop for 1
point or the bucket for 5 points. Highest points wins.
Hula Hoop: Time each child spinning the hula hoop around
their waist, time from the moment they let go to the moment it hits the floor.
Longest time spinning is the winner.
Obstacle Course: Design a course around your park or garden,
eg race from the bench to the climbing frame. Touch the top bar on the frame,
climb down and race to the swings, two big swings on the swing, run twice
around the tree then once down the slide before trying to make it back to the
bench first to be the winner.
Relay Race: Grab an empty plastic bottle and use it is a baton. Split into two teams and each team into two. Stand one half of each team at either end of a small race area. Eg Team A, members 1 + 3 stand by the tree, Team A, members 2 + 4 stand by the bench. Give number 1 the plastic bottle, they have to run to member 2 pass them the bottle and then go to the back of the line. member 2 runs to member 3 and so on. First team to have the bottle back in team member 1's hands is the winner.
Family Self-Portaits
You will need:
- A small mirror (shaving mirror works well)
- Small pieces of paper + a big piece of paper
- Colouring pencils or pens
- Scissors
- Glue sticks
- Photographs of any family members not present
How To Do It:
- Sit with your paper, pens, mirror and photographs, on each piece of paper draw a different piece of each persons face, eg Mummy’s hair, Uncle Bob’s moustache, Jeff’s left ear – make sure you have drawn hair, 2 eyes, 2 eyebrows, nose, 2 ears, mouth, 2 cheeks, 1 chin.
- Cut each part out and stick them onto the big piece of paper into the shape of one big face.
