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The definitive
Holiday Games Guide
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summer holiday with our fun games guide. Find, make, munch and make-believe - our super selection shows you how. You'll find exciting ideas from mummy bloggers from all over the web, mixed in with some of our own favourites.
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Lancashire-based mum of two Pippa from www.redrosemummy.com suggested some food fun!
Pizza Picnic What you'll need: • Pizza bases (shop bought or homemade) • Pizza toppings (cut into ready-to-use pieces)
How to play: "We love to make our own pizzas: I either buy or make a pizza base and then let my little boy get busy spreading tomato sauce and adding all the different toppings. He loves adding ham, mushrooms, peppers and sweetcorn, and topping with cheese. After the pizza is cooked we spread a picnic blanket out on the lounge floor and sit and enjoy our pizza picnic. Not only is it a fun activity, it's great for encouraging little ones to eat vegetables that they might not usually touch."
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Pizza Base Recipe Food
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Recipe
Base Ingredients: • 2 ½ cups of flour
• 1 tablespoon of oil
• 2 ¾ teaspoons of baking powder
• ¾ of a cup of water
• 1 teaspoon of salt
Method: • Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl. • Add the water and the oil. • Mix together with a wooden spoon until it forms a ball of dough mixture. • The dough should come out soft, not sticky and not too stiff. Add more flour or water in small amounts if needed to get it right. • Knead the dough on a floured surface for a few minutes. • Bake at 400 Degrees Fahrenheit (Gas Mark 6) for 8 minutes until lightly browned. • Place your sauce and other ingredients onto the base. • Bake for a further 10 minutes.
Holiday topping ingredient ideas Pineapple – An oldie but a goodie. Use fresh pineapple cut into rings to give it more of a holiday feel. Pepper – Use peppers to design a funky colourful pattern on your pizza. An egg – Simply break an egg into the centre of your pizza to make it more egg-citing.
The search is on! With a bit of preparation, this can be one of the best indoor games around!
Treasure Map Endless
What you'll need:
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• Several small prizes or one big prize (sweets, toys, a DVD etc.) • Paper and a pen for drawing up clues
How to play: When it comes to a treasure hunt, the possibilities are almost endless! Why not make a puzzle hunt, where each location has a puzzle piece? When all pieces are found, the kids can put the puzzle together and see the location of the hidden treasure on the back.
For younger children:
For older children:
• Use images or photos as clues. Draw or take pictures of places they should investigate.
• Incorporate riddles in the clues: this will appeal to their inner detective!
• Make up simple rhymes as clues. • Incorporate games into some of the clues if you can.
• Use secret codes • Make the clues more difficult as the game goes on!
Give this traditional German card game a try to keep your kids entertained!
Mau Mau What you'll need: A pack of cards (for up to five players, two packs of cards for more than five players) Mau Mau is similar to Uno, but you can use a regular deck of playing cards. The aim of the game is to get rid of all your cards.
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How to play: To begin, each player gets a hand of five cards. The rest are placed face-down as the drawing stack. At the beginning of the game, the top card of this stack is revealed and then the players get a turn to play their own cards. Usually, the youngest begins. You can play a card if it is the same suit or value as the open card. For example if it's a King of Spades, only other Spades or other Kings can be played. If you can't do that, you have to draw a new card from the stack.
If this new card lets you play, do so, but if you can't then you keep the drawn card and your turn passes. If the drawing stack is empty, the playing stack (except for the top card) is shuffled and turned over to become a new drawing stack.
Frugal mum Becky from www.family-budgeting.co.uk has a game where you only need one thing, and we all have it!
Storytelling step by step
What you'll need: • A little bit of imagination!
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How to play: "I love to get my kids storytelling. Everyone is encouraged to take part and first we dream up a location where the story might take place; a mountain or a cave, perhaps. Then we think of a time - early morning for example - and next a character perhaps a dragon. Then we think of a question or a quest for the dragon e.g. "how do I find a friend?" and we
continue to throw out ideas until we have our story and he finally finds a friend. The story teller (the adult) then tells the story back to the storytelling group and that becomes their story. It's great fun, and all you need are active minds!"
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Story Words List Knight
Castle
Sword
Princess
Tower
Ring
Space Man
The Moon
Ray Gun
Dog
Garden
Bone
Mouse
Kitchen
Cheese
Boy
Jungle
Treasure
Girl
Island
Gold Coin
Police Man
School
Calculator
Hedgehog
Road
Apple
Duck Pond
Pond
Pirate
Pilot
Chef
Ogre
Fire Man
Evil Genie
Burglar
Superhero
Raven
Mummy
Indian
Airport
Evil Step Mother
Cowboy
Fire Station
Evil Queen
Adventurer
Secret Base
Computer
Diver
McDonalds
Train
Pig
Beach
Plane
Grasshopper
Pyramid
Pen
Lemon
Sea Floor
Ice-Cream
Dragon
Farmyard
Cardboard Box
Witch
Building Site
Mash Potato
Alien
Cupboard
Camera
Cat
Snake
Bucket
Be inspired by the Japanese art of paper folding to keep your kids entertained!
Origami Magic What you'll need:
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• Lots of paper (different colours would be good) • Pens Take a 15cm x 15cm piece of paper & place it colour side down. Fold it in half on the . diagonal then unfold it again
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Fold both outer points down to meet the centre crease.
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Fold the bottom tip (of the face) up, but just using the top sheet of paper.
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Fold it in half on the other diagonal and keep it folded.
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Make two folds with the top flaps, at an angle.
Fold down the top tip, over the sticking out triangles (the ears).
Fold the tips of the ears, at an angle
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Flip the paper over
Fold up the bottom tip to line up with the bottom line on the other side.
Now it's time to draw on your koala's features!
Aspiring author and mum of two girls Victoria Sutton from www.darlingsanddaydreams.com shares her clever creation game:
Lovely Lolly Puppets What you'll need: Keep hold of all those lolly ice sticks as there is lots of fun to be had with them! Get together any materials you have to hand – cardboard (you can use the inside of a scraps of material, colouring pencils, and activity without lots and lots of - GLITTER!
How to play: Cut out the shapes you want (my girls always want fairies or kittens! I have to help them with the cutting) and stick them firmly to the lolly ice sticks. Colour and decorate them with all of your gathered materials. The beauty of this activity is that the fun you are ready to put on your very own Lolly Ice Stick Puppet Show.
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Try out this fun and educational game (shhh, the kids don't have to know they're learning!) which originates from Germany:
City–Country –River Funing learn
What you'll need: • A sheet of paper for every player • A pen for every player *note, all players will need to know the alphabet
How to play: Every player should start off by drawing a table on their sheet of paper with the headings City, Country, River written in. As a group, think up some more categories - no more than seven. Choose a letter by having one person say the alphabet in their head until another person says stop. The aim of the game is to think of a name of something in each category that begins with the chosen letter.
Once one person has a name for each category - or five minutes has gone by - everyone should stop and the scoring begins! If you have a word that other people have too, you get five points for that word. If only one other person has it, it gets you ten points. If you are the only one who had a word for that category, it gets you 20 points. The winner of that round will have the most points.
Example: City
Country
River
Name
Plant
Profession
Animal
London
Lithuania
Loire
Laura
Lavender
Lawyer
Leopard
Kids love a good problem to solve! We bring you a few simple but great ideas...
Spot the difference! Connect the numbers! Solve the maze! What you'll need: • Paper • Pens
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How to play: Print out or draw your own "spot the difference" pictures. It needn't be a work of art - kids will love a simple sketch with clear differences. Drawing a connecting numbers game or a maze is even easier to prepare, just think of an easy sketch that your children can connect by numbered dots. Draw a simple maze for younger children (make it more fun with colours or a picture of treasure in the centre) or print off a more complicated maze to keep older kids busy.
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