Children's challenge week

Prepare and serve a simple lunch?

Collect and/or photograph items on a list from the woods, the beach etc. (Depending on where they live).

Excellent idea nanapug

Find books in the library on a given topic.
I love all the other ideas. We have 5 yr old overnight tomorrow, pity he's not old enough for this.

6year old GS and 8 year old GS have both enjoyed the Easter Trails in Worcester and Gloucester Cathedrals. The vastness of the buildings, the simple things to find that tell the Easter story and good lunch(!) in the Cathedral cafes have gone down a treat this Easter holiday and last

In the end we went to a Country Park where there are lots of opportunity to climb, hang, jump and build dens and the children challenged themselves to do things that they found quite hard such as jumping of things higher than usual etc. It worked very well and as a bonus there were quite a few geocaches there too and a pleasant cafe with good cake ;)

Lovely ideas nanapug.

Re age ninathenana, even with dangerous activities like making a fire you can still start showing them how to do things so they are ready to do them on their own when older. In the summer, our GD, then 5 & GS,3 watched us while we made a camp fire in the garden & we gave them simple tasks to help - like collecting sticks, putting the turf back. It also showed Grandpa that Girl Guiding skills weren't all wrong.

The National Trust have produced a booklet of 50 activities kids should have done by the age of 11.