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Hangman is a word game based on trying to work out a hidden word before the player guessing the word is hung from the gallows To play the game you will need   A Pen/Pencil Paper       The Rules One player thinks of a word, and writes down dashes to indicate what the word is The second player now tries to guess a letter of the word

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Are you another Admiral Nelson, or Sir Francis Drake? Or will your fleet soon be at the bottom of the sea…?

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The game of tic-tac-toe is a game for two people, and is a game you play with your mind Providing there are nine boxes you will be able to play, so don’t worry if it the lines are not perfectly straight Taking turns each player puts an O or an X in each box

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The Harrier paper airplane holds the record for flying the farthest. Can you build and fly this elegant plane further than your friends, or will the disappearing wings of your buddies be the only sign you’ll see of them…

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The Bulldog Dart paper airplane is a good flyer, easy to build, and with its blunt nose has a distinct look. Can you build and fly this beauty?

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Paper boats are made the same way we made the paper hat, but have a few extra steps involved. The clever thing about paper boats is that though they are made of paper, they can float on water. Want to make one?                    

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You can use any rectangular piece of paper you can find, newspapers and magazines work well, but plain white A4 paper is best because you can add your own designs to the paper, including painting it or colouring it in using crayons and felts

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The game of naughts and crosses is a game for two people, and is a game you play with your mind Providing there are nine boxes you will be able to play, so don’t worry if it the lines are not perfectly straight Taking turns each player puts a naught or cross in each box

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Water fights are great fun but can get better with a little imagination…

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Easter is a Christian festival to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Many countries around the world celebrate Easter, and every country has its own ways of doing it.  To find out more about Easter, and how it began, click here. In Great Britain, American, Australia, Canada, and countries where English is the most ...

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The story of Saint George and the Dragon. Long ago, in the country of Libya, there was a city called Siliene.  One day, a huge and powerful Dragon made its nest in a spring, which is where the people of Siliene used to go to fetch water.  With the Dragon being in the spring, the people ...

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Mother's Day,  is only a few days away, and it is always nice to buy your mum a card on this day.  In fact, it is nicer if you make your mum a card for this day. Mum's tend to like pretty cards, rather than pictures of your favorite toy even though it ...

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For many of us Easter is a time when the Easter Bunny arrives and hides Easter eggs in our house.  Very often, our families buy Easter eggs for us, and we all have a lovely time munching on big chocolate eggs.  Sometimes these eggs are so big, they are as big as our heads! Christian belief Easter, ...

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Paper aeroplanes are really gliders that glide on air.  There shape is aerodynamic, which means it allows air to pass around it easily.  The more air that can pass around your shape, the faster your shape will travel. Did you know that in some countries, aeroplane is spelt airplane? Paper areoplanes are easy to build and easy ...

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Traditionally, an Easter egg hunt consists of a child searching around the house for  their chocolate eggs.  This is a lot of fun and is a nice way to start Easter day.  There are ways however, to make it more fun and to keep it alive if your children are a little older. Easter Egg ...

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Children have been playing Ring a Ring o'roses for hundreds of years.  Many historians, which are people that study events and occurrences from the past, believe the rhyme came about because of the bubonic plague, or the Great plague of London in 1655. A plague is an illness, or disease. To play the game which is sometimes ...

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Staring, is something that everybody does.  It could be because we see something unusual that intrigues us, or it could be because we see something that we have never seen before.  Staring is our way of showing surprise at the unusual things we see.  This is why small children, normally call toddlers, stare more than ...

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Racing a car against your friend's car is brilliant.  Are you faster, or is your friend.  When you master one circuit, take it apart and build another.  Is the F1 Ferrari faster than the le mans Jaguar? Which one of these cars do you like best? Which one do you think is faster? Scalextric track can be ...

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Lego is a fantastic building toy By pushing bricks into one another, you can create anything you want to When you get tired of your racing car, why not build a catapult!  Lego is not just about buiding, it is about adventure..

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When you have mastered Lego, perhaps it is time to try and master Meccano. Like real engineers and mechanics, you can build all the things that you want to using nuts, bolts, screws, and spanners. A different approach is needed, but I’m sure you’ll master it! All the motorcycles in this video were built using Meccano. ...

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The great thing about skipping ropes is that there are lots of skipping games you can play, either on your own, or with friends. Did you know that boxers use skipping ropes to train, as it helps them build fitness and co-ordination? How many skips can you manage before the rope hits your legs? Here are the ...

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A  marvellous sight to see is a locomotive dashing around a track, wheels spinning and pulling coaches.  The beauty of train sets, is that you can create your own track or tracks.  If you have one locomotive pulling coaches one way, and another pulling coaches in the opposite direction on another track, then you will ...

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Haiku poetry comes from Japan and works around writing poems that are three lines long, and written in a set number of syllables. A syllable, is the different sounds that make up a word.  If you can, think of a word as sound chunks joined together.  So, 'mouse' is one syllable, 'ele-phant' is two, because ...

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It can be a little difficult finding things to do with the kids.  Demands on your time I'm betting are pretty extreme, and you can often find yourself with a bored child or two, and just to make things worse, you have a million and one things to do and be thinking about as well. Let ...

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Cardboard tubes can come from toilet rolls, kitchen rolls and best of all, wrapping paper! Before mum or dad can throw them away, ask if you can play with them. They can be telescopes…             They can be batons for a marching band…               They can be pirate swords…                       If you had two tubes, they could be binoculars…                  Imagine... You are on a ship ...

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