Scotland is famous for the Edinburgh Fringe festival. Host a talent show and create your own acts, comedy sketches, musical items or stand-up routines. Why not invite parents or your local community and run the event as a fundraiser?
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Have a snowball fight. If you don’t have any real snow try newspaper.
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St. Andrews is a town in Scotland famous for golf. Visit a mini golf, pitch and put or driving range and test out your golf skills
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St. Andrew was a fisherman and a ‘fisher of men’. Play your own fishing game
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Spring is all about new life. Water brings life to the world. Have a ‘water of life’ relay using cups with holes in or drainpipes to get water from one end of the relay course to the other
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Play ‘corners’ naming each corner after an animal from the Chinese zodiac or a spring flower
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Play the ‘Chocolate Game’ but use Easter eggs or spring themed fancy dress
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Play ‘Fruit Salad’ but swap the fruits for: Crocus, Snowdrop, Pansy and Daffodil and for ‘Fruit Salad’ shout ‘Spring Flowers’. Alternatively play the game with an Easter theme and make up your own names
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Play ‘Sunglasses Swap’ with your Rik-Bans
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Get yourself a beach ball and play some beach ball games
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Play a game of rounders. Perhaps you could invite another unit to join you and have a match unit vs. unit?
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Have your own eco-friendly volleyball match with a recycled ball made from newspaper and old carrier bags.
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Play ‘Fruit Salad’ but swap the fruits for: Sunshine, Sand, Bucket and Spade for ‘Fruit Salad’ shout ‘Summer Time’. Alternatively play the game and make up your own names.
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Think of a traditional game and adapt it with a Teddy Bear theme. Teach it to another group
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Play ‘Bear in a Wood’ based on ‘Squirrel in a Tree’/ ‘Rabbit in a Burrow’
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Play the Chocolate game and use Teddy bear fancy dress
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Play ‘Corners’ and name each one after a different type of bear, or maybe even a bears favourite food!
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Play ‘Fruit Salad’ but swap the fruits for: Polar bear, Koala Bear, Grizzly Bear, Teddy Bear and for ‘Fruit Salad’ shout ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’
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Play ‘Picnic Blankets’, based on the game ‘Islands’
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In small groups create a panda/bamboo themed game for others to try. You could invent a new game or you could adapt a game you already know well. You should teach your game to at least one other group
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Pandas are great at climbing trees and making dens. Try getting from one side of your meeting place to the other without your feet touching the floor. Alternatively have an evening making your own dens
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Research the traditional game ‘Mahjong’ and learn how to play. You could even make your own set of mahjong tiles
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Hold a water race using ‘bamboo shoots’
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Have an egg throwing contest. In pairs take it in turns to throw and catch the egg, increasing the distance between them each time.
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In Sweden, Easter is celebrated by children dressing up as witches and wizards. Play the wizard game.
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Take an Easter twist on a traditional game, swapping ‘Duck, duck, goose’ for ‘Bunny, bunny, chick’!
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Hold your own egg and spoon races. Make it more interesting with waterbombs instead of eggs!
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How fast can you bunny hop? Hold races and race in relay
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Jelly beans are popular in USA at Easter. Play the ‘Bean Game’
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Lying on skateboards use plungers to pull yourselves along and have races.
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Play a game of tag rugby. Each player has eight tabs on their belt.
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Octopuses change colour to camouflage with their surroundings. Have a game of hide and seek.
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Octopus have super strength. Have an octopod tug of war
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Use a straw to move as many peas as you can from one bowl to another in 1 minute using suction…just like an octopus uses its tentacles.
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Octopuses mimic other animals. Play a game of Simon says.
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Have a competition to see how many bubbles you can pop on bubble wrap in 30 seconds.
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Octopuses are great escapologists. Have a go at getting yourself out of a tight spot.
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Play tig. If you get stung by an anemone twice you are out. For added fun use coloured powder/paint markers to ‘sting’ then you can see who has been tug
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In teams work together to build a shelter but only walk sideways like a crab
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Pass the parcel using only one hand. Beware, you might find a mischievous dare in there too!
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Play hide and seek with bells tied to you.
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Go snowball bowling. Use a stocking with an orange in it on your head to knock over pins. Work in teams to knock all the pins down first.
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Have a game of Santa’s keys using an elf hat.
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