Competitions, Competitions, Competitions.....

Various folk on the Black Isle are running various competitions at the moment..

Rosemarkie Amenities Association - Poster Competition
For Under 7's and 7-11year olds in IV10 - design a poster encouraging people to keep our lovely villages tidy, take up litter and pick up after dogs.
Entries can be emailed to rosamenexec@gmail.com or put through letterbox at 35 High Street, RosemarkieClosing date 18th May.


Groam House Museum and Avoch and Killen Community Council
Build and display a scarecrow outside your house.  Follow scarecrow antics here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlackIsleScarecrows/

Corona Virus Questions

Noisy Crow have just released a free downloadable book illustrated by Axel Scheffler all about the current situation for children.  It can be downloaded here - 
https://nosycrow.com/blog/released-today-free-information-book-explaining-coronavirus-children-illustrated-gruffalo-illustrator-axel-scheffler/

Nicola Sturgeon has also answered various children's questions about Corona Virus - her answers can be found on YouTube here - 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh2wA32--fZtlxAIUyrUrG2p3a5smpSfo

Scottish Orienteering Challenges....

The Scottish Orienteering Society are releasing puzzles and challenges of various abilities each day - they look like great fun - 

https://www.facebook.com/scottish.orienteering
https://www.scottish-orienteering.org/resources/puzzles-and-challenges/?fbclid=IwAR1mQxkeadhH1rXoJPA_pN8aAxsth1ZRMls5D9i0QYwQ2HPyW16mExI2UPE

Magical Creatures....

We discovered at the weekend that google have created a new way to look at animals - live in your living room!  It's really hard to explain but trust me just do it! 
Just use your phone to Google your favorite animal, then hit ‘view in 3D’; and the hit 'View in your space' and Google will then use your phone’s camera to beam the animal right into your living room. It doesn’t work with all animals, so have fun discovering what ones you can find.   We so far have only tried Tiger but need to try more!

Deadly Defenders....

So we are all (adults and seven year old alike) addicted to this game...it's deceptively easy then gets harder and harder....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/deadly-defenders-game

Easter Eggs....

Rosemarkie Help + Rosemarkie Amenities would like to see lots of decorated eggs in windows to join the rainbows and teddies, draw them on paper and show how creative you are.

Decorate real eggs, (hard boiled first of course) , and have fun making slopes to roll your eggs,  play tap with them or have an egg and spoon in the garden.

Meditations and Rainbows.....

Meditations/Mindfullness - 
https://www.calm.com/blog/take-a-deep-breath and https://www.headspace.com/covid-19

The two main apps/websites that offer mindfulness meditations have pulled together free packages to help!  I haven’t tried these out yet but plan on doing so and will update when I have.  At first look Calm looks to have more available for kids but maybe Headspace has more through it’s app.

Paint a Rainbow Activity
Paint a rainbow to stick up in your window – or paint more than one and post to Grandparents/other family members to stick in their windows.
Then go on a rainbow hunt (whilst maintaining social distancing and during your exercise time) around the village.