Here is a set of cards that you can have up your sleeve while running a junior chess club.  Sometimes you have a spare player -- and sometimes players get a bit bored playing the same old faces each week #8211; so here are some ways to mix things up. 

Draw a card for everyone to have a go at when they arrive, or draw one later for  one or two players who are at a loose end. The number of possible ideas is enormous, but these have been tried and tested.

I've left out perhaps some of the better-known ideas, like blitz chess, doing tactics puzzles, and crazy lightning.  In the unlikely event that you haven't heard of these, you will find them on the Internet.   

I don't think any of these ideas are completely original, but I don't know where they all came from.  Credits are due to Gerry Quinn (Detective chess<>), Jeff Coakley (Winning Chess Exercises<>) Steven Addison (100 other games to play on a chessboard<>) David Pritchard (The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants<>), Raymond Smullyan (The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes) and Martin Gardner (Mathematical Carnival).

Suggestions and comments welcome #8211; then soon there might be another set.

P.S. Print them on card or onto labels; A6 labels can be stuck to the A5 playing cards made by Stratus.