Short breaks in Hertfordshire – CHIPS

CHIPS (Broxbourne & East Herts) online offer has included no cost fun activities such as:

• Online games, activities , challenges
• Recipe of the week - Every week a contest/challenge takes place with a recipe or a lego model for children to make. Families are then invited to share the results with pictures
• Competition of the week - Easter was fun! and there was making a Lego model, a junk model and the best train track layout. Thanks to easter egg donations from #Waitrose, CHIP staff were able to deliver sweet treats to children and their homes
• AC Education -online training has produced a document ‘Understanding Anxiety ‘.to help parents understand and support their children’s anxieties around the current situation
• Time capsule - encouraging parents and children to record what activities they are doing during this period and their feelings , to look back on in the future

The team of course make regular telephone calls to the parents to check in on them.

Details here on how to contact CHIPS   https://chipsplay.org/contact-us/ 

and more lockdown tips on their website here

https://chipsplay.org/about-us/lockdown-ideas-and-information/