The oldest child in each family will bring home an empty matchbox this week – you can work as a family to do the challenge.  The challenge is to put as many different items into the matchbox as you can. You want to look for things that are as small as possible but you can only put in one of each item. For example, you can put in one grain of rice but not a spoonful!

Please don’t put in:

• anything perishable – e.g. you can put in a dried flower but not a fresh flower as it won’t survive.
• anything which is too tiny to find and count (e.g. a grain of sand)
• anything which will crumble away – e.g. you can put in a coffee bean but not an instant coffee granule.

Bring your matchbox back into school on Friday 1st October. On th ebox, please write:

• the P1-7 child(ren)’s name(s)
• their house
• the number of items that are inside.

Everyone who brings their box in will win points for their house and the winning boxes will earn extra points.

Good Luck and Enjoy!