Looking for a fun idea for your kids Easter Egg hunt this year? Then how about using the family fun game Ultra Dash from Interplay to add to the fun. You can add chocolate treats to the targets for children to collect as they dash about following the flashing colours adding to their fun. Also a great game during this stay at home isolation spell that we are having
The Ultra Dash game comes with five multicoloured targets that are bright and easy to see. This game is ideal for either indoors or outside in the garden if the weather is pleasant enough. You simply place them on a flat surface either on the ground or on an easily reachable surface.
The Tagger is an ergonomic shaped stick that you hold and requires 3 AA batteries. It then acts as your main tool in the game as from here you can control the number of players, timed countdowns and which game mode you wish to play.
It’s also is your main game controller that you hold during play and the top flashes various colours, each matching the colours of the targets and determines where you need to place the tagger. It also records your score on how accurate you are in placing the tagger into the correct target.
There are three modes of game play:
- Beat the Clock – A race to hit all five targets as fast as you can which you can either play alone or compete against others by taking turns and checking your scores.
- Target Tally – Choose the length of your game whether it be 30 seconds or a minute and see how many targets you can hit in that time
- Relay Race – split into teams and take turns of hitting five targets each before passing to the next player in your team.
As a fun idea for Easter we put chocolate bunnies into each target for the children to collect as they played – off course this was a hit and encouraged them to keep playing for longer! I also found that by playing in the garden, the children were clearly keeping active by running between the targets and being competitive as they are, beat me in the the time challenges.
You can see the game in action in this short video clip we’ve made:
If you are looking for a fun game to keep the kids active then this would be great especially in the current climate. It could be a long Summer if school remains closed until September to Ultra Dash is the idea way to have fun and keep fit!
You can also check out Interplay on their social channels to see Ultra Dash and other great play ideas that they have. They are on Instagram, Youtube and Twitter.
All reviews are my own and my family’s opinions. We are not paid for reviews although we do receive the product to try out and enable us to write the review.
The Fairy Garden comes with the pot, all the accessories and grass seeds, you just need to add a small amount of soil. It is designed to be kept inside so you can watch it everyday, water it as necessary and cut the grass if desired.
Miss M really enjoyed putting the garden together, there are also some plastic flowers on stems to push into the soil and the last job is to sprinkle the uncovered soil in grass seed. As a twinkly final touch there are some glittery stars to make your garden sparkle.
With this set aimed at age 4+, you would need parental assistance to put this together. Miss M is 8 and enjoyed it but did need me to guide her and assist in a few small areas like assembling the house and putting the washing line together.
The kit comes with practically everything you need to produce these little creatures, all you need to add is some bottled or rain water. You get a water tank included to grow you Triops in along with a sachet of triop eggs, triop food, sand, pipette and a spoon.
The set is recommended for 7yrs plus and 8yr old Miss M was eager to try it out. It is very simple to set up and simply requires the water to be added to the tank along with the detritus (dirt and eggs) sprinkled across the top.
It’s then a case of waiting…. and I have to admit after about 4 or 5 days I thought nothing was going to happen, but then about a week later I spotted some small white flutterings in the water. We then all eagerly came down each morning to see how much they’d grown and loved seeing them swimming about in the tank.
5 yr old Mister B loved their beady black eyes which are really quite prominent. Miss M loved the role of feeding them just a small shake from the food sachet provided every few days. They have soon grown and we can see so much more detail on them. We have three and they love swimming around together. We have also added the little packet of sand to the bottom of the tank for them to scurry about in.
This has been a fascinating activity to have in the home and we are still enjoying them day to day and can’t wait to see how big the Triops finally grow to. Apparently they lay eggs in the sand which you can dry out and reuse to hatch another batch of Triops, so that is something we may try again afterwards. Triop World is a great way to get closer to nature and actually a bit different from the normal activities we have at home so I think this has been a great educational success and something I’d recommend trying out.
