Autumn Winter 2016 2016:2 | Page 27

Atticus enjoyed sitting next to the towers, holding his arm as high as he could and dropping the rings onto the towers. If you don’t have any rings, you could make some from pipe cleaners, or pieces of card, stapled together. Seb finally made it down the stairs with the egg on the spoon and the brothers were both shrieking with delight while playing this game. If you don’t have polystyrene eggs I would suggest ping pong balls, or bouncy balls. I hope that these ideas help you to keep your children’s’ boredom at bay in the coming months! -Kat Egg and spoon game Last Easter I bought some polystyrene eggs from the pound shop. We failed to use them all for Easter crafts, so I stored them for mess-free Egg and Spoon races over the summer. We did try this, but unfortunately it was on a windy day, and wasn’t so easy! But, this can be done inside. The boys were walking around the house balancing the eggs on plastic spoons. When they had attempted walking with their eggs and spoons they had a go walking up and downstairs to see if it was harder. After many attempts 26