Ideas to entertain kids on a rainy day

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Steve NordRunner
How to cut a piece of paper so you can step through it. There are others linked to this blog.doublehelix.csiro.au
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fetcheveryone
Two food-based ones:

1) balance an Oreo (other biscuits also suitable) on one's forehead, and manoeuvre it into your mouth without touching it. Chocolate biscuits are messy but fun.

2) with your hands behind your back, eat a plate of cream crackers and dairylea.
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The Terminator
Not sure how good your searching skills are fetcheveryone but I did a monthly round up on this very topic on the 1500 miles in a year thread around 2010/2011 🙏

Also having just tagged you how are you user 3? I mean seriously what or who came before you. Is way too early for such deep ponderings 🤣
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fetcheveryone
The first two were probably me testing the sign up mechanism. I could have reset it all, to give myself #1, but it's no biggy. At some point a few years later, I auctioned off the #1 user ID for charity.
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The Terminator
Nice x
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Mushroom
Open a few bags of different flavour crisps, and see if they can work out the flavours blind.

This reminded me bbc.co.uk

Other foods / flavours would work too.
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12:24pm, 28 Jul 2023
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fetcheveryone
We did Chocolate Russian Roulette with Cadbury Heroes (the bullet being the Bounty, obviously).

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I thought it'd be fun (plus I know someone who might enjoy hearing some creative ideas) to collect your suggestions for games to play with kids on a rainy day. Ideally, the games would be with minimal equipment, or common household items. I'll give you some to get you started:

We had a set of 10 plastic pint glasses for some reason, and the Boy and I managed to come up with some fun games involving those e.g. see how many you can balance one on top of another before they fall over; ...

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