Paper Planes is a great newly released film by Lionsgate, about an eleven year old Australian boy, Dylan, and his ambition to compete in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan.
His passion for inventing and creating paper planes is clear to see and the film follows his journey to come up with the best paper plane. Having lost his mother at a young age and with an unsupportive father he is on his own until he meets up with the current Japanese champion Kimi, who he strikes up a friendship with, which helps boost his self esteem and enthusiasm. The film follows various emotions from start to finish including friendship, family, trust and self belief.
My 8yr old daughter sat glued to this film during it’s entirety, she thoroughly enjoyed it and I think it was totally appropriate for her age. I enjoyed the film too, and it is definitely something I would have watched when I was younger, but equally something I loved sitting down to watch as a family now. It has a feel good factor to it and happy endings all round.
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Playing what’s the time Mr Wolf ? with my dad and going on long bike rides.
Trying to fly my kite which was shaped like an octopus. Once it was high up in the air it would fly well, it was just all the running to try and get it to launch.
Monopoly – all my family would play and it would last quite a while!
Playing with my (very few, maybe 2 or 3) barbie dolls, with all the clothes that my nan knitted for her! Wish I’d kept them for my little girl
I loved the playground games like Mr wolf and Oranges and lemons ( I put my name as lo, my finger slipped lol )
The game of life!
I loved playing on my spacehopper, I think I was a real outdoor kind of kid!
monopoly
Playing scrabble as a family. I can’t wait for my 3 girls to be old enough to play x
I always enjoyed playing Bingo with my gran
Hide and seek.
We used to play French skipping a lot – a skipping rope made from elastic bands.
i loved my space hopper lol
Hide and seek with my sister who always hid in the same place!
I miss playing Rugby as a kid
Kite flying
I used to spend hours riding my bike.
Riding my BMX with my friends and playing football
Making tents in the front garden with anything found in the garage
hide and seek, we used to play it with our cousins all the time but from what I remember we always hid in the top of the wardrobe…not very creative with our hiding places
Swingball and tennis!
Cops and robbers
Building dens
Buckaroo for me loved it as a kid even brought it for my 2 boys lol
going camping in the summer x
monopoly we had so much fun with that game
playing chips with my sister.. we would climb into pillowcases and put one over our heads…weird yes
I used to love going on bike rides
bike riding.
Hopscotch – I used to love it
Has to be ‘Kirby’! I spent hours perfecting my throw to bounce a ball straight off the edge of a pavement!
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Guess Who – hours of fun while its raining outside
I loved playing tether ball
I loved playing with my dolls pram with my friends xx
monopoly, sunday tradition to play after dinner
manhunt with all my friends in the neighbourhood
Hours spent cycling everywhere…
Summer holidays I remember – they were the best!
Riding round the streets on my bike
I used to love my Skip-it. (A small ball on the end of a piece of rope, you would put it around your ankle and spin it with that ankle and jump over it with the foot) Remember those? 🙂
British Bulldog – fond memories of playing it in the school playground!
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Playing hopscotch on a chalked grid with a stone!
Playing French cricket with my brother and nephews!
Skipping with a skipping rope was my obsession at school and I still remember most of the songs even if my knees aren’t up to all that jumping 😉
Home made stilts, don’t think I could do it now but would love to give it a try
the game of life
Cluedo 🙂
Kiss chase. Gaynor always let me catch her. That really should have told me something.
Playing british bulldog
Playing what’s the time mr wolf
playing football on the park
As a child I enjoyed Sunday evenings playing Monopoly with my family
Dudley Dodo . Its the only game we played as a familyk
Hide and seek.
The lava game, where the floor is lava and you have to save all your teddies!
Playing with LEGO
Baking days with my mum
Playing with my Polly Pocket campervan!
making mud pies
Finding my mother’s old archery set in the shed and shooting arrows all over the place – carefully- was great fun.
PLAYING MARBLES
Walking my doll in her pram
pogs 🙂
kirby and rounders.
Hopscotch
My childhood favourite game was playing buckaroo Always had me giggling
Haunted house but it took ages to set up and that was half the fun
I loved playing ‘Detectives’ with my friends (we spied on the neighbours down our street)
I just loved playing in the back garden! we had communal yards and about 7 families where always out playing when it was light outside! was great fun and lots of good memories.
hopscotch
I used to love playing hide and seek.
playing Monopoly with grandad
Playing scrabble. All the family would play – not together as there were 7 of us including mum and dad – and I would take ages to play!
Skipping and Rounders 🙂
Hide and Seek – great fun
Football on the green
Knock down ginger
Flying kites with my brother. It was rarely windy enough for us to do it so it was always special
Monopoly
Definitely dancing with my dad, I used to stand on his feet as we twirled around the room.
Skipping. we would do all the rhymes – we loved skipping x
My friends and I used to play two balls up against the wall, you’d have 2 tennis balls and swing your arm and bounce one on the ground then it would hit the wall, you’d sing songs as you go and would do it one handed, under your legs and behind your back. We were quite expert at it 🙂
playing badminton in the garden with my sister
monopoly – the whole family would play
Going out rollerskating with my pink and white disco roller boots on was a particular favourite of mine
My grandparents had a retro version of monopoly which we used to play when we went to visit
I used to play ball games with the dog who lived across the road
Playing Monopoly at Christmas.
I was very lucky and we had a giant snakes and ladders game in the garden that my Dad made, so we used to play human snakes and ladders! It never ended well, but was too big to upend the board lol… 🙂
Playground football – each and every break/dinner.
Collecting Pogs
Playing board games and singing together 🙂
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making an flying a kite made out of cotton and a plastic bag. Great fun and didnt cost much money
Monopoly was my family favourite and apparently I was very competitive!
Playing hide and seek with all the children in the road
hopscotch
My dad made me a netball post and I used to spend hours playing that .
Charades
Hide and seek
Monopoly it’s my favourite still!!! X
Love monopoly.
Playing football with my brother and dad
Playing football
What’s the time Mr Wolf ? Was the best game
I used to love roller skating.
Hopscotch in the playground
Loved a game of swing ball
Going down the allotments and sitting on a fence waiting for a train to pass and waving to the driver and passengers. It was so exciting when someone waved back.
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My pogo stick! Loved that!
Playing monopoly with my sisters
Playing a card game Pay Me during the power cuts in the seventies.
Head and handstands against the classroom wall in the playground at school!
I loved playing tig