I'm not awfully good at this self promotion lark. It just doesn't seem terribly...well...'polite' does it?
However, I am overcoming my English reserve to say this:
I have a new book out!
Was that too much? I'm thinking the exclamation mark looks a bit brash. What do you think?
Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound.
It's called 101 Things For Kids To Do On A Rainy Day and it's the follow up to 101 Things For Kids To Do Outside which did... um... rather well.. you know, for that sort of book. I mean, JK Rowling has nothing to worry about. Not that I'm in anyway comparing myself to JK Rowling. I'm very much the opposite. This isn't even fiction. In fact forget I even mentioned her name. Sorry.
If I can bear it, I will try to put up a few projects over the next days and weeks on the blog so you can get a flavour for it.
And if you're interested (but really, it totally might not be your sort of thing so please feel no obligation whatsoever to waste your time even looking at this) here's what it includes:
1. Play 'Who am I?'
2. Concoct bath bombs
3. Create crossword cards
4. Mix up a dip fest
5. Play balloon stomp
6. Grow an eggcup micro garden
7. Make a play dough ice-cream parlour
8. Wrap the mummy
9. Craft pom-poms
10. Weave a multi-braided bracelet
11. Pour colour-changing drinks
12. Hold a junk fashion show
13. Hold a dress-up race
14. Conjure up ice cream in a bag
15. Pitch an indoor camp
16. Teach yourself a card game
17. Set up a school
18. Remodel your bedroom
19. Compete in hands-free ping pong
20. Learn some dice games
21. Watch water walk
22. Construct a parachute
23. Make your own jigsaw puzzle
24. Construct a card tower
25. Learn to finger knit
26. Play patience
27. Fashion some spoon dolls
28. Create a boredom buster
29. Take and lift fingerprints
30. Craft stained glass lanterns
31. Try out hairstyles
32. Learn to paper patchwork and decoupage
33. Mix bath paints
34. Create your own bingo game
35. Set up a cafe
36. Build a shoebox house
37. Have an indoor snowball fight
38. Create a kaleidoscope
39. Make a flipbook
40. Set up a spa
41. See how low you can go
42. Construct a no-sew shoulder bag
43. Hunt the thingy
44. Model with salt dough
45. Make green gloop
46. Race around the world
47. Make an I-spy jar
48. Become a mind reader
49. Craft paper flowers
50. Construct a picture frame
51. Freeze fruity ice lollies
52. Create a magic shape shifter
53. Make a heart garland
54. Draw optical illusions
55. Grow a garden from scraps
56. Catapult marshmallows
57. Make wind instruments
58. Design your own board game
59. Make an organiser
60. Hold a butter-making race
61. Hold an indoor treasure hunt
62. Make corner bookmarks
63. Wrap a yarn tin vase
64. Make fifteens
65. Prepare a fruity melon basket
66. Booby trap your bedroom
67. Play flap the fish
68. Create a word search
69. Construct a lava lamp
70. Prepare fresh strawberry tiramisu
71. Fold an origami fortune-teller
72. Build a marble run
73. Set up an indoor obstacle course
74. Launch a Magnus glider
75. Build a solar system mobile
76. Make a no-sew pencil case
77. Create pinwheel sandwiches
78. Play shadow charades
79. Create silhouette portraits
80. Make rainbow fruit kebabs
81. Play the glasses
82. Craft with papier-mâché
83. Run your own library
84. Erupt a volcano
85. Learn a magic trick
86. Decorate a tablecloth
87. Create a jellyfish in a bottle
88. Play wink murder
89. Give your room a view
90. Plant a terrarium
91. Try salt painting
92. Fold a mini book
93. Make string block prints
94. Master 3D drawing
95. Play sticky note scramble
96. Make egg-shaped sculptures
97. Make a severed finger box
98. Catapult a paper plane
99. Set upa juice bar
100. Roll paper beads
101. Have a backwards day
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