Day 86: Playing Hide and Seek

Day 86: Playing Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek is a brilliant game. I’ll say that again: Hide and Seek is a BRILLIANT game. Fact is, it’s wasted on children. If you haven’t played Hide and Seek while an adult, I implore you to immediately step away from your computer, find a group of friends, and...
Day 85: A mysterious murder

Day 85: A mysterious murder

Perhaps the hardest part in setting up this Murder Mystery evening after rescuing a box-set (sealed in cellophane) from a charity shop was locating a cassette tape player so we could listen to Inspector Flapper McClue’s wisdom. If you’re too young to know what a...
Day 84: Take a hike!

Day 84: Take a hike!

At some point, probably when I’ve finished my 100 Days of Play challenge, I need to write something about how I came to choose the activities that I have. One part of it is that I haven’t especially gone for the sort of ‘Play for Grown-ups’ that, well, grown-ups might...
Day 83: Play to make the car journey go faster

Day 83: Play to make the car journey go faster

If there’s one classic sort of play that adults engage in with their children it must be this: car games. Playing I Spy, Animal, Vegetable or Mineral or any of the variety of number plate games is well-known to be a sure-fire way of either making the journey feel...
Day 82: Playing in a virtual world

Day 82: Playing in a virtual world

A long while back I got my hands on a Google Cardboard. It’s no surprise if you’ve not heard of this, since they aren’t really marketed at all, but Cardboard was, as I understand, a joke project created in response to the Oculus Rift, where someone at Google came up...