Also known as half term resources and competitions to enter!
We got a fab Transformers Age of Extinction #5 magazine for review, which includes a great competition running right the way through to 19th December. You get to decorate and build your own robot from the template supplied, then send in a picture to Autumn Publishing on twitter or facebook, to win one of 20 sets of the 10 transformers books. Great prizes, and good chance to win there I’d have thought. And the comic itself will keep the kids occupied for a while 🙂
Twinkl resources have got a design your ideal house competition to win a rather glorious set of construction blocks – open til 12 November, more details here
If Halloween doesn’t really float your boat for whatever reason, but you still want to get funky with a pumpkin, you could check out World Vision’s alternative celebration, turning a Night of fear into a Night of Hope. I confess we’re not big scare night fans, having had a very unpleasant Halloween once upon a many years ago, when Big inadvertently opened the door to children in masks and was absolutely terrified. (In my defence it was still daylight, so must have been very early, and we were expecting someone, *not* trick or treaters!) Anyway, since then, we’ve played it very cool on Halloween, but this idea quite takes my fancy. There are various resources to help you carve your pumpkin into a heart, as well as recipes for using up your pumpkin innards. And you can share pics of your pumpkin afterwards. (And if you don’t want to get messy, you can carve a virtual pumpkin online)
If you’d like to support the children of Syria directly, you can text HEART8 to 70060 to donate £5 (plus standard network charges) to help change their future for good. (Full details on the page linked above.) If you do carve a heart pumpkin, share your pics on social media or a blog using #ANightOfHope too.
If you’re looking for a challenge you can claim is educational, there’s a great chance to win with Ordnance Survey, and the prize is an opportunity to meet Santa in Lapland.
For children under-12, to enter simply create a map of what you think Santa’s home town is like and send it to Ordnance Survey. This can be a paper map, a digital one, or even one made in Minecraft (which is how I’m thinking we might go 😉 ). If your map is chosen by the Ordnance Survey elves as their favourite, then yule soon be on a plane to Lapland with your family to meet Santa.
Full terms and conditions here
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