About this game

A bear starts next to a picnic blanket with a ball of honey 30 centimetres across. Roll it over a cookie and the cookie sticks. Pick up enough cakes and cups and it can take a loaf of bread, then an apple, then a garden gnome.

Bigger things are in the way until the ball grows. Hit a beehive too hard and a few things fall off. Cats and dogs chase a small ball, and rabbits and sheep run off once the ball is big enough to pick them up.

The ball keeps growing. Out past the garden fence are ducks on the pond, a farmyard with pigs and tractors, a village with buses and houses, and dinosaurs in the far valley. The bar at the bottom shows what comes next, and the top shows how big the ball is: as big as a cat, a cow, a school bus.

When time is up the ball floats into the sky and you see how wide it got, up to three stars, and what stuck to it.

Good for

• A reward at the end of the week
• Talking about bigger and smaller, and centimetres and metres
• Wet lunchtimes