Activity and game ideas: 11th June

Fruit recipes: Mmm! There are lots of yummy fruits around at this time of year. Depending on what you have in your house, or what your grown up wants to get – what could you make with your fruits??? A pie maybe, or a crumble or a muffin, or a baked apple? Or, if you don’t want to cook: a smoothie or banana split or a fruit fool or a fruit meringue or a fruit trifle? There are loads to choose from and I’m making myself hungry thinking about them! Let me know what you do. I’ve made a crumble this week with apple, rhubarb and raspberries yum!

Word count: Set yourself a timer for 5 or 10 minutes – how many words can you make from love, joy, peace (or you can choose some of the others) in that time?

Secret message: You’ll need some grown up help with part of this one.

Squeeze the juice from a lemon. Using a cotton bud or small paintbrush write a secret message on a sheet of paper. Leave it to dry – you shouldn’t really be able to see it now. With an adult: rub a hot iron quite slowly over your sheet of paper and watch your message appear. (You could do a few of these with the names of the “fruit of the Spirit” that we’ve been learning about.) Extra: I’ve never tried this – does it work with coloured paper? If it does then you could make some nice patterns or pictures on coloured paper.

Fruit hopscotch: Draw out a hopscotch grid as usual (with chalk on the pavement is great fun if you can). Instead of putting numbers in draw some different fruits. Then, instead of counting as you jump, you could spell out the different fruits.

Alliterative fruits: Ooh – alliterative is a big word! It just means things that begin with the same letter. Sometimes I call people a “barmy banana” or a “silly sausage” – just for fun, I’m not being rude to them! I can think of lots more that I could do with fruits – can you think of some?

20 Questions: Think of a fruit or vegetable but don’t tell anyone what it is. They have to ask you questions to try to guess but, they can only ask questions that can be answered “yes” or “no” e.g. “is it yellow?” or “is it round?”. If they can’t guess yours in 20 questions then you have won.

Make something up: Can you make up a game or activity that other children could do easily at their home? If you can email your idea to me then I’ll email it out to others: [email protected]