Keeping the Little Blighters Busy : Low-Cost, Ingenious and Fun Ideas That Adults Will Enjoy As Much As Kids!

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Food Dudes: Exciting challenges and alternative ways to experience food -- Supermarket Challenge -- Lickety Wallpaper -- Lucky Dip Cooking -- It's Gone all Mouldy! -- The Dinner Party Experiment -- The Day of the Chopsticks -- Walkthis Way: Turn a walk into an adventure with these out-of-the-ordinary ideas -- The Left-right Walk -- The Straight Line Walk -- Don't Forget to Smell the Flowers -- The Dice-throwing Walk -- Hansel and Gretel Walk -- Time Travel -- Art with a Twist: Quirky and engaging ways to get them absorbed in art -- Secret Cupboard Art -- Communal Art -- Pin-in-the-map Sketching -- Butterfly Collector -- Russian Doll Roulette -- An 'Unsensible' Pair of Shoes -- Glow-in-the-dark Drawing Wall -- Snapshot of a Day -- Design and Construction: Inventive projects for designing and making in a 'real life' way -- DIY Marble Run -- If You Go Down to the Woods Today... -- Newspaper Clothes -- Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock... -- Dress Me Up! -- Mini Interior Designer -- Hamster Playground -- Chinwaggers: Unique and stimulating ideas to really get them talking -- Graph of the Day -- Story Dice -- Pants on Fire! -- Wordsmiths: Original and creative ways to experiment with the written word -- The Witch's Larder -- Word Towers -- Black-out Poems -- Hidden treasure: Two ingenious treasure hunts, one for big kids and one for little ones -- Shopkeepers' Treasure Hunt -- Picture Trail Treasure Hunt -- Spicing up Everyday Life: Add an element of surprise and fun to the day-to-day routine -- Jam Tart Tray Dinner -- The Ironing-board Hair Wash -- The Surprise Letter -- Ice-cubes in the Bath! -- The Weekend House-swap -- The Wall of Foam -- Garden Antics: Imaginative ideas to keep them entertained and happy in your own back garden -- The Music Tree -- The Mini-market Stall Holder.

It's a Mud, Mud World! -- The Unscary Scarecrow -- 'Tis the Sea son to be …: Fresh inspiration to help celebrate those special days of the year -- Shrunken Heads -- Secret Christmas Mission -- The New Year's Interview -- Reverse Trick or Treating -- Activities Advent Calendar.

A book for parents full of quirky and unusual activities to stimulate their children - ideas which come from lateral, left-field, out-of-the-box thinking and cost next-to-nothing!.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.