Avoid Christmas injuries.



Christmas Lights and Christmas Ornaments with Cool Light Effect by ParentingPatch

Of the 350 reported fairy light injuries, most occurred whilst decorating. Injuries include people falling while putting up the lights, children swallowing the bulbs, and people getting electric shocks and burns from faulty lights. Lights can also have fatal consequences with an alarming number of deaths caused by people watering the tree with the lights switched on.

Accidents can be avoided by ensuring your fairy lights come with a safety mark, such as the BSI Kitemark. Only use lights outdoors if they were intended for that purpose and turn them off before you go to bed at night. It is also recommended that you replace your lights every three years and keep them out of reach of children

Around 1,000 people each year suffer Christmas tree related injuries. According to RoSPA, these injuries usually occur while fixing lights, stars and decorations to the higher branches. Other injuires include pine-related eye injuries as people reached for presents.

Thinking of Presents, people often trip over toys and electric cables. Other Christmas Day accidents include people cutting themselves when they try to open presents too quickly and people accidentally stabbing themselves with scissors, which they’ve used instead of using a screwdriver, to assemble toys.



Christmas Pudding by Matt Riggott

Holiday season is a time to break with the diet and indulge. Just as long as you don’t over indulge. Hospital admissions for alcohol related accidents and injuries go through the roof as people drink 41 per cent more in December than the monthly average.

It goes without saying you should never drink and drive.

There’s also a risk from eating the festive bird. Around 30 people die from food poisoning in the UK each Christmas. 80 per cent of people wash the turkey before cooking it, spreading germs to kitchen surfaces. It also takes hours to cook a turkey properly. Undercook turkey and you could contract salmonella poisoning. And one in five of us risk food poisoning from eating turkey leftovers which have spent longer than the recommended two days in the fridge.

For advice on staying safe see
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Healthychristmas/Pages/Christmasinjuries.aspx

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Thinking of planning a pre-Christmas mystery party for your children?

 

ITM Games have games suitable for children and teens.

For children aged 5 to 9 there is 

"The Mystery of the Missing Reindeer"

 

The ITM Games range of children's mystery games are especially designed for little ones. They provide children with an entertaining mystery to solve. The guests play games, construct crafts, solve clues and puzzles.

The Mystery of the Missing Reindeer is an Invitation To Mystery Children's Game for 6 Players

T'was the night before christmas and the elves are making the final preparations at the North Pole. Suddenly there is a disaster. Someone has stolen all of Santa's reindeer! Join the elves as they travel to rescue the reindeer in time for the Christmas deliveries.

This game is aimed at children aged 5 to 9 years, although it can be enjoyed by younger and older guests. To save Christmas, the kids must solve puzzles, play games and assemble easy craft projects as they try to solve the mystery and rescue the kidnapped reindeer.

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For Teens try "Who Slayed Santa?"

 

It’s Christmas 1979 and School is nearly out….

The year, and the decade, was about to end with a Christmas disco to remember.

It was 6pm as the gang assembled in the foyer to check that everything was ready. The first thing they all saw was “The Winter Wonderland” display erected in the school foyer. It depicted Santa Claus and his Reindeer. Only now the display was covered in red paint……… Who would possibly do such an act of vandalism, and why?
 

This role playing game is suitable for ages 11 and above and is available 6 players (6 girls) or 9 players (5 girls and 4 boys)

 

 

Purchase & Download – 6 Players (6 Girls)
Purchase & Download - 9 players (mixed – 5 girls and 4 boys)

 

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