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
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