If we have a quiet weekend, we adore playing board games, and whole-family paper-based games, like Beetle-Drive.
Here is the Pancake edition of Beetle-Drive, which I made up to play at Cubs (whilst other Cubs are taking turns cooking the pancakes over the camping gas stoves).
There are two versions of the game to download, the relaxed one - no adding up of scores, just a prize for the 'most pancakes completed during the game', a prize for 'the best drawing skills' and a prize for 'the most delicious sounding topping suggestion'. In our 'plastic-free-where-possible' Cub pack, the prize would be a tube of Smarties (which come in cardboard-only packaging) to be taken home and eaten, or, if they have the willpower, added to a just-cooked pancake on Shrove Tuesday.
There are two sides of the 'relaxed' sheet to print out, with 4 games on each side. Our Cubs completed 4 games (at most) in 45 minutes of playing, (whilst they weren't cooking or eating) so I would probably use a single-sided beetle-drive sheet in future.
The other version (below) has a space for scores. Some play Beetle-Drive as a series of games with a set duration, e.g. ten minutes and require a score to determine winners/losers. When the whistle blows after 10 minutes, the scores are added up and the highest scorer moves up one table and the lowest scorer moves down one table. As the tables are set out in a circle, some do eventually end up back where they started and there is no 'failure' table right at the bottom, fear not! The overall winner(s) would be the top scorer(s). There are two sides of the sheet to print out, with 4 games on each side. So a double-sided sheet would last 80 minutes.
Again, in our 'plastic-free-where-possible' Cub pack, the prize would be a tube of Smarties (which come in cardboard-only packaging) to be taken home and eaten, or, if they have the willpower, added to a just-cooked pancake on Shrove Tuesday