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Screen-Free Fun

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Category: Book

80 imaginative games and activities designed to engage and entertain without a screen

Whether we're big or small, it can be hard to get away from our screens. Most children spend between five and seven hours a day looking at some form of a screen - and most grown-ups spend twice as much time. Screens promise endless entertainment, but the more time we spend with them, the more we lose sight of all that is strange, fascinating and delightful in the world around us. Even when we're stuck indoors, there are infinite possibilities for banishing boredom and having fun so long as we use our imagination. All we need are a few helpful suggestions.

Screen-Free Fun contains 80 of the weirdest and most wonderful activities children can do at home, all without using a screen. Rather than scrolling or tapping, you'll be invited to draw, make, write, invent, dress up, hide, seek and discover. You can paint like Picasso or meditate like Buddha; become an indoor entomologist or a home Olympian; make up a new language or a mythical creature, and even find the fun in some household chores. Inventive and irreverent, this book is the perfect companion for humdrum days and wet weekends. It is a compendium of the world's strangest, silliest and most stimulating activities.

Activities include:

  • Your Own Orchard
  • Make Yourself Tiny
  • Haunt Your Own House
  • Maps of Imaginary Places
  • Sock Sliding

Hardback book | 144 pages | 140mm x 203mm

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Richard ★★★★★

I grabbed this for the long drive to my parents' place and my kids actually put the tablets down. The 80 activities range from quick five-minute games to stuff that kept them busy the whole afternoon, and most need nothing more than paper or a deck of cards.

Lucy ★★★★★

This book has been a lifesaver on rainy afternoons—my daughter actually asked to put her tablet down mid-activity, which never happens. The games are simple to set up with stuff we already have at home, and the variety keeps her interested for longer than I expected.

Julian I. ★★★★★

My kids are six and nine, and the 80 activities here have genuinely replaced afternoon tablet time with actual laughter—the games are clever enough that even I don't mind joining in. The variety means there's always something new to try, and that's been a lifesaver for rainy weekends.