One Two Three Do You Want To Play With Me?

Also known as 'GRANNY'S FOOTSTEPS'.


This is one of those games to play anywhere, at the drop of a hat, when you're out and about and you don't have any props. It can be played with any number of children and is one of those that is as much fun with three as with ten.

How To Play:



Choose a player to be Grandmother and then the rest of the children stand in a line a few metres behind her/him.



Granny turns her back and says quietly to his/herself 'One two three do you want to play with me'? While behind her the others have to make their way to her as quickly and quietly as possible.



Granny can turn around at any moment, although the rhyme gives the other players enough time to get moving, and when she does the players must freeze. Anyone caught moving must go back to the beginning.



The first player to reach Granny then becomes Granny for the next round.



A game like this is great for filling time or lightening the mood or just when a good run around is required!

Grass Houses.

I have such memories of hot summer days spent making grass houses with my friends. The big green spaces around where we lived would be cut a couple of times over the summer and we'd be out like a shot to gather as much grass as possible and then set about making mansions for ourselves, complete with en suite bathrooms, walk-in wardrobes and every luxury we could think of.



I was very surprised to realise my kids had never made one. So we waited a day or two for the clippings to dry out a bit and then got to work.



There was no competition between them, and everyone helped build the same house. Funny, it struck me that we always did that too. No discussion about it, just set to work.



I love how they wanted to decorate their 'bedrooms' with flowers, leave etc.

The whole project consumed them for over an hour which really surprised me. I thought my childish memory made it seem longer but obviously not!

Grass Fight!

We have a birthday the first week of May and it almost always coincides with the first grass cutting of the year. Cue a boisterous grass fight.

It's so tempting to be clean and tidy with your clippings, but what is more fun than tearing around the garden in that first flush of summer, flinging freshly cut grass into the air, at your brother, and even at your Dad!







As the sun sets over the mountains, and the air starts to cool, it's time to finish up and go inside to a warm bubbly bath, before tired heads hit the pillow.