Activities

What makes you happy? Craft a frame for a photograph that makes you smile then make a gallery for everyone to admire.

Use a simple viewfinder and your imagination to find out what makes a great photograph, then get snapping.

Explore the art and traditions of henna by creating a decorated henna hand.

Prepare for a taster session of paddling by making a model paddlecraft.

Make your bed right so you can sleep tight.

Use Scratch, a digital coding program, to create your own digital art.

Explore the science behind slime by cooking up a batch of your own.

Make your own planisphere, then take it outside and connect the dots in the night sky to spot the constellations.

Get crafty with natural materials and use the hedgehog template to create a leafy hedgehog of your own.

Become a high flyer in this matching game – can you figure out how and why the aircraft fly?

Make your own junk model instruments and perform some of your favourite tunes.

Create an artificial home for worms and watch these amazing digging machines at work.

What are you good at? Think about everyone’s strengths, and explore the abilities and attributes you'd like to develop.

Turn your recycling into a famous landmark from another country, then discover what life is like there.

Learn how to compost your food and garden waste.

Learn about djembe drums from West Africa, make a djembe drum, and perform some freshly-learnt songs for an audience.

Learn about different types of music before designing posters for the best concert ever.

Share your thoughts and feelings about some of the stories you have read by making a reading tree.

Practise your phonetic alphabet as you try to be the best pilot in this fun, racing game!

Discover your inner spy while practising digital wizardry and skills of disguise.

Learn and practise braille. Can you spell your name and read someone else’s?

Create a simple map to help someone navigate your meeting place.

Use simple knots and lashings to create a model tippy tap. You could even scale it up for use on camp!

Discuss the different ways people might be disabled, and figure out how we can adapt the world so it’s accessible.