This one wasn’t my game – it was devised by the oldest of the junior players, on our recent holiday. Â It worked really well, so I thought I’d share it with you. (As I’m on catch up on posts, I’m writing in early April, after Easter – but putting the date as a post in …
Category archives: Food
Game on: Crazy Chefs
Having invoked many of the games we’ve played on the move, in my earlier posts, let me add one more. Â Up there in the stash of things to pack for train journeys: Crazy Chefs. Crazy Chefs is made by Orchard Toys, so it’s educational, yes, but it’s also lots of fun. Â As the favourite game …
Game on: hands down
So you’re underway with word games. What next? Time for a bit of hand-slapping. By which I mean games that involve hands to play the game – with the potential for a bit more overtly competitive behaviour, if you want. 1) The classic is Hand Sandwich. One person puts one hand on a flat surface: …
Eco audit: on the outside, looking in
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, the time of my teens, a few key things happened that put eco-wheels in motion for me. For one, I went to places where eco was made accessible, possible – and carried out as a mainstream way of living. I went to other places where life was still familiar, …
Eco audit: making things
Back in the mists of time, it is said that people made things. Â Their own clothes. Â Their own shoes, even. Â They grew and they hammered and they painted and they basically made their way in the world, themselves. Today, we tend to forget that. Â We recognise that things have to be made – but we …