50 play ideas for the holidays

How many of these ideas can you complete during the school holidays?

1. Build a bug hotel
2. Build a den
3. Build a tower out of shoes
4. Chase bubbles
5. Climb a tree
6. Collect rocks and paint them
7. Create a movie
8. Dress up
9. Floor is lava
10. Go bird watching or bug hunting
11. Go camping in the garden or indoors
12. Go on a treasure hunt
13. Have an egg and spoon race
14. Have a go at juggling
15. Have a water fight
16. Have a wheelbarrow race
17. Have fun with chalk
18. Host a kitchen disco
19. Host a teddy bears picnic
20. Jump in puddles
21. Make an obstacle course
22. Make can and string ‘phones’
23. Make cars, castles or spaceships with cardboard boxes
24. Make fingerprint or handprint paintings
25. Make mud pies
26. Make musical instruments with old stuff
27. Make paper planes and fly them
28. Make shadow shapes
29. Make slime
30. Make sock puppets and put on a show
31. Paint each other’s faces
32. Pass the parcel
33. Play 20 questions/who am I?
34. Play charades/give us a clue
35. Play pin the tale on the donkey
36. Play a game of tag
37. Play clapping games
38. Play I spy
39. Play hide and seek
40. Play hopscotch
41. Play musical chairs
42. Play musical statues
43. Play sardines
44. Play school, café, offices, or shops
45. Play skipping ropes
46. Play tenpin bowling with old plastic bottles
47. Pretend to be animals and have a parade
48. Put on a dance show
49. Roll down a grassy hill
50. Star gaze

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