City Adventures

`Learning to explore and value one's neighbourhood, through fun and the creation of excitement, adventure and challenge is an important process' - Roger Orgill, Sports Council, from the Foreword



City Adventures is a street-wise city adventure book, designed to stimulate the ideas both of young people and of those who work with them. The author aims to open people's eyes to the enormous potential of the urban environment, and shows how to use it imaginatively and creatively.





Dave Ruse, who has spent most of his working life in youth organisations, has put together nearly 300 games and activities. They include games for indoors and outdoors. Some use simple found objects, like a cooker made from a tin can. Other activities use an everyday object like a camera on an adventure such as treasure hunt or spy catcher. Some activities need no equipment at all, only planning and ingenuity.





All activities can be used as educational tools to develop physical and mental skills in using the environment. There are games for group co-operation or competition, or for individual growth and development. Or you could use them simply to have fun.





The author's positive attitude to urban life is reflected throughout, and City Adventures will be an essential source of ideas for youth workers, teachers, play leaders, club organisers and anyone working with young people in the 9-18 year age range.





This book is an essential source of ideas for youth workers, teachers, play leaders, club organisers and anyone working with 9-18 year olds.





Dave Ruse is the author of the well-known Canoe Games.