When I was a young child you would always find me outside, wind, rain or shine. Baby girl is exactly the same. She loves to get out in the garden as soon as she’s had her breakfast. She doesn’t come in properly then until tea time. I mean she pop’s in now and again to see what I’m up to. Or to catch me having a sneaky biscuit, but mainly she spends her day in the garden.
With her being an outdoorsy girl I love to find her things to do outside. She has the usual slide, sandpit, water table, Little Tikes car, but I like to find her other educational things to do. She enjoys gardening with me, and looking after the chickens. So when Sudocrem got in touch to let us know about their Play More campaign with Chris Packham I knew this would be an excellent activity for my little adventurer.
So what is the Play More campaign?
Play More has been designed to try and get children outside and playing more. Sudocrem carried out research and found that children are spending around 45 hours a week in front of a screen and only 4 hours playing in the great outdoors. This year, they launched the campaign with the help of Chris Packham and carried out further research looking at the relationship between children and insects. They found that a staggering 9 out of 10 children (89%) were unable to recognise a butterfly even though there is an abundance of native British insects, with around 27,000 insect species calling the UK home. Moreover, 51% didn’t know what a Bumblebee looks like. And, surprisingly, 1 in 3 (29%) didn’t realise that bees make honey.
As part of the campaign, Sudocrem have put together and are giving away adventure kits which have been carefully put together to encourage children to play outside.
(I have a box to giveaway as well, to enter just keep going to the end of the post.)
The kit is worth £40.00 and includes:
- Play More t-shirt
- Play More sun hat
- Bug Pot
- Frisbee
- Butterfly Net
- Magnifying glass
- Trowel or fork
Chris Packham is helping to provide more nurseries with support to improve their outdoor play areas. You can nominate your nursery to win support for playground regeneration or a mural, which will be painted by award-winning artist, Joy Pirkle.
Nominate your nursery here: https://www.sudocrem.co.uk/social-hub
What have we been doing?
Well in the afternoons we have been outside looking for butterflies. Our garden is next to a natural hedge that is full of meadow plants and flowers so we get a lot of butterflies and bees and other insects coming into our garden. As you can see from the photo baby girl is ready with her butterfly net, oh and the frisbee and gardening fork!
She is loving the bug pot with its magnifying lid and of course the magnifying glass. I believe it’s opened a whole new world up to her.
I have yet to finish my huge pot of Sudocrem (they last forever!), but once I do we will have a go at making the “My Little Bug Hotel” from the activity card that was in our kit. It looks like fun and the only extra equipment you need are everyday household items.
Giveaway
Sudocrem have kindly agreed to let me giveaway a Play More adventure box on my blog. All you have to do to enter is to fill in the gleam widget below.
Good luck!
*Terms and Conditions – There is one Play More box from Sudocrem to giveaway. The prize is non-transferable and no cash alternative will be offered. The winner will be selected at random via gleam from all valid entries and be notified by Twitter and/or email. The winner will have 28 days to respond with a name and address before a new winner is selected. Open to all UK entrants aged 18 or over only. Facebook and Twitter are in no way associated with this giveaway. Any personal data given as part of the competition entry is used for this purpose only and will not be shared with third parties. The winners details will be passed to the PR for Sudocrem for contact regarding the prize.
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You can find other competitions over on the competition page.
Thanks for stopping by today.
*We were given a Play More box in exchange for this post.
Fantastic prize would love to win
Great giveaway, would love to play with this with my toddler Grace.
Great prize!
My nephews would love this
This is a fab idea! My grandsons would love it!
need this for my nephews
Thanks for the great prize and competition. Good luck everyone!
I love this box. So much fun for outdoors
I love this box. So much fun for outdoors
My kids would really love this.
This will keep my grandchildren busy all summer long
I love this box. So much fun for outdoors
This looks great. I would love to win this!
oh wow the fun to be had with the lil ones
Perfect for the Grandchildren
Oh perfect for my little boy we’re off to the caravan for a holiday in a few weeks so would come in very handy x
This looks great for my son
great giveaway
Fantastic Bundle!! Thank you Rachel and Sudocrem!
My little boy would love this!
What a fantastic prize, my children would love it! Especially the bug hunting
Brilliant prize .. my almost 6 year old would love this
Our kids have the perfect balance of love for tech and the great outdoors. I know they would love to win this kit and go bug hunting with us in the local forest as well as looking for beasties in the garden. The frisbee would most definitley keep both the kids and our dog happy for hours.
My son would love this. He’s always hunting for bugs
My daughter had one when she was small – kept her happy for hours x
Fantastic giveaway
great fun for my boys
looks great!
My partners daughter would love this
Great prize thanks for the chance
This will keep the grandchildren happy in the holidays!
Aww I love this gets the kids out and about
This is a great idea – fun and educational at the same time.
Would love to win for my kids
What a great little kit, we’d love one for the last few weeks of summer x
This looks really good fun
this looks like it could be a lot of fun x
I would love this for my grandkids
This looks fab. I would love to win it for my ddaughter
A lovely prize my daughter would enjoy
My 3 year old would love this. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
love a bit of bug hunting
What a great set
I think this is brilliant for the outdoors, it looks really interesting.
This giveaway is fantastic – great prize!
My kids would love to find an adventure in their garden with this kit.
My little girl would *love* this activity box! Great prize & thanks to you and Sudocream for offering it! Sudocream is a household staple of ours!
We would get lots of use doing fun things with our 4yr old with this activity box!
This looks like great fun. Both my kids would love it.
Thanks for the chance to win, Sudocrem is a firm family favourite here
great thanks so much, should keep the kids occupied!
what a lovely giveaway!
This looks great, we love to get outdoors as a family.
My kids would enjoy this box.
Lots of adventures to have with this set!
Looks like so much fun!
I bought just a magnifier for my friends daughter and it was his most used birthday. She loves worms
love to win this prize as a present for my nephew Max
Looks like great fun!
Lovely prize and will help get the kids outside.
perfect for my grandson
Great for my little girl 🙂
a lovely prize x
Looks fun, perfect for the summer!
This looks fun, I’m sure my boys will love it
Anything to get the kids away from the x-box
This is so perfect for the summer! For new experiences and exploring outside!
My daughter would love this.
My daughter would have so much fun with this! 🙂
This would be lovely for my niece.
amazing!
My daughter would love this!
This is a great prize and my son would love it
my nephew would love this
Perfect to keep the kids entertained this summer x
reminds me of the ‘good old days’ when l was a child and we spent every daylight hour playing outside
This looks great, my girls love been outside
My grandson would love this to do some bug hunting in the garden.
Anthing that fets them offline or off phones is great
What a lovely set of prizes!!
A great initiative for getting kids outdoors.
Lovely giveaway my grandson would love it he’s a little outdoor explorer
Love it, great fun!
Nice little prize
Would love to get outside more with my nephew and explore.
Would love this for my nephew, fingers crossed
Would be great for my little daughter, fingers crossed!
A perfect outdoor gift for little ones. Thank you.
My little boy loves looking for bugs in the garden so this would be perfect for him.
Fun for my nephew
looks fab x
A lovely prize, thank you!
This is lovely to see
The statistics are shocking aren’t they ?
My little Grandson would love this, hes always searching for bugs and things
My son would enjoy using these
Looks fun!
Great fun for the boys
fun and educational
this looks fun! x
fab giveaway