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We’ve found 509 activities:
Practice lighting a candle
Get hands on with matches and learn to light it safely.
30 mins
Indoors
Make a baking tin garden
Create a mini garden from recycled materials, then host your own garden show.
50 mins
Indoors
Fascinating flowers
Add some magic to a popular gift with this colour-changing experiment.
30 mins
Indoors
Grow some salad leaves
Use your newfound gardening expertise to grow salad, then taste nature’s reward.
30 mins
Indoors
Miraculous mess machines
Tidying up can be hard work! What if a miraculous mess machine could do all the dirty work? What would it be like?
20 mins
Indoors
Feel good chatterboxes
Fold a paper chatterbox that helps people to feel better.
30 mins
Outdoors
Make funny fruity monster faces
Make your five a day ferocious by creating a fruit (and vegetable) monster.
25 mins
Indoors
Egg parachutes
It’s down to you to protect your chocolate egg. There are plenty of materials available – what will you use?
20 mins
Indoors
Make nature faces
Make your own magical nature faces using natural materials.
30 mins
Outdoors
Make lollipop stick catapults
Put your pioneering skills to the test by creating a miniature catapult from lolly sticks. Ready, aim, fire!
25 mins
Indoors
International fact finder
Learn about other countries by finding facts – and maybe even a snack.
30 mins
At home
Make an edible World Membership badge
Make an edible World Membership badge and learn how to tie a classic reef knot with a tasty twist.
25 mins
Indoors
Grow cress creatures
Plant your own cress creatures and help them to thrive.
15 mins
Indoors
Sensory bottles
Make and shake a bottle filled with delights of all shapes and sizes.
30 mins
Indoors
Dear future me
What does the future hold? Use your imagination to hope for the best and send a postcard to your future self.
10 mins
Indoors
Re-imagine this
Think on your feet to see everyday objects in a new way with this quick game. Can you explain their new use to others?
20 mins
Indoors
Salt dough badges
Get hands on and sculpt your skills as you use salt dough to craft the badge you’d like to earn next.
30 mins
Indoors
Cardboard captains
Use your construction skills and recycling to transform your meeting place into a nautical world with boats and islands.
50 mins
Indoors
We built this shoebox city
Let your imagination loose as you work together to create a city from boxes that would otherwise be thrown away.
1 hr
Indoors
Fire-free campfire
Build your confidence and show the world your skills by performing at the indoor campfire talent show.
50 mins
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Marvellous magnets
Three fun experiments to help everyone learn about magnets.
40 mins
Indoors
Ketchup commanders
Amaze others with your ability to make a sachet of ketchup rise and sink in a bottle of water.
30 mins
Indoors
Make leaf art
Look at leaves in a different way and use them to make a wild, nature collage.
50 mins
Indoors
Race to recycle
Learn how to recycle different items. What else can everyone do to help protect the environment?
10 mins
Indoors
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