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Playground Fun
Playground Fun allows children to make up their own games and to create variations of existing ones.
Link: www.playgroundfun.org.uk
This colourful site helps 7 to 9-year-olds rediscover the joy of traditional outdoor games
- More than 270 games are featured on the Playground Fun website, with contributions from pupils, teachers and parents
- 2500 youngsters took part in the Playground Fun day at the Museum of Childhood in London (August 2005), playing games and contributing to the site
- "Playground Fun is bursting with great ideas to get kids out there playing games. We need children to rediscover the fun they an have outside in the playground with their mates" - Ade Adepitan, CBBC presenter
From Hide and Seek to It, traditional games meet with new playground favourites in this inspiring website for Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils. Playground Fun helps 7-9 year-olds re-discover the joy of group games.
Children from across the country are encouraged to add to the site using a unique 'game builder' tool.They might add games they have created themselves or possibly a different rhyme to be used with a game that is already featured on the site.
Playground Fun has developed into a wonderful resource for parents, educators and, most importantly, for children themselves.
Based on an original idea by the University of Glasgow, Playground Fun was developed by Learnthings.
Here's what The Times said about Playground Fun: "The website is colourful, well designed, packed with clear rules for games that are familiar to those of us born before even Pong or Pacman had been invented... As a piece of sociological research, it cannot be faulted, particularly as the website will expand its compendium massively over time."
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Games are of course fun!
Playground Fun screenshot
Children playing traditional games