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We’ve found 748 activities:
Navigating with the stars
Learn how to navigate with the stars before going outside and trying your new skills
40 mins
Indoors
Practice fire building with chocolate biscuits
Make some different campfire structures with tasty biscuits, then learn a bit more about when to use each one.
45 mins
Indoors
Hide and seek
Play the well-known wide game, Hide and Seek, then try some of our variations.
45 mins
Outdoors
Play ‘Minute to Win It’
Take on a mix of quick challenges and see who can complete them in 60 seconds or less!
45 mins
Indoors
On the spot
Keep track of your interactions during an activity and create a trail that’s just like a digital footprint.
1 hr
Indoors
Meme makers
Get creative and make a meme about digital citizenship for other young people.
25 mins
Indoors
Lost in translation
How accurate is your communication? Draw clearly, then pass it on and hope your message doesn’t get lost in translation.
10 mins
Indoors
Is it OK?
You’ll have to think quickly and call on all your digital thinking skills in this fast-paced game.
10 mins
Indoors
Rights and wrongs
Find out more about your rights as a child in this fast-paced team game.
30 mins
Indoors
All the rights moves
Enjoy discovering more about the rights of children in this fast-paced team game.
30 mins
Indoors
Spot the sponsored content
Can you trust a targeted ad? Learn about online advertising and see if you can work out what’s reliable.
30 mins
Indoors
One-minute professor
Think on your feet and become a visiting professor who’s an expert in… well, who knows?
30 mins
Indoors
In the mood
Take the next steps on your journey and research and create a digital mood board together.
1 hr
Indoors
Is there an echo in here?
Take on a task with a twist in this game which reminds us that people can have very different views.
30 mins
Outdoors
Build a brilliant campaign
Have fun building a brilliant online campaign to promote a community event.
3 hrs
Indoors
Joined up thinking
Work together to become an efficient ideas machine by creating a team project using a collaborative online tool.
3 hrs
Indoors
Make invisible ink
Use lemon juice to send secret messages, with this science experiment.
Supported by
Rolls-Royce
45 mins
Indoors
Plant some seeds
Sow some seeds and watch them grow.
30 mins
Outdoors
Grow sunflowers
Sow some sunflower seeds and learn about the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower.
30 mins
Outdoors
Make braille biscuits
Learn about tactile features, then spell out a word in braille, which is a tactile code, using biscuits and sweets.
45 mins
Indoors
Frame the wind
Find out how renewable energies help us create a better world.
Supported by
Gas Distribution Networks
45 mins
Indoors
Learn how to reduce your energy usage
Learn about energy usage and how we can help reduce it in this fast, fun, cups and saucers game.
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Gas Distribution Networks
30 mins
Indoors
Try the ice cube experiment
Discover what insulation is and how well different materials work as insulators.
Supported by
Gas Distribution Networks
1 hr
Indoors
Try an ice-speriment!
Learn about rising sea levels with this frozen experiment and try to melt the ice cubes.
1 hr
Indoors
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