Great Cheap Things To Keep The Kids Quiet at Easter Hunt

lucymay_2

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We do a Welly Walk having previously hidden some ribbons for the kids to find. 5 ribbons equals 1 small egg. Adults get hot cross buns or easter biscuits. Good to do as a get together with other mums and kids if someone is willing to host it!

nicoliyah

For Londoners the Geffrye museum in Shoreditch is excellent, they often have exhibitions and loads of activities for kids. The shops great too, they have original gifts for all pockets.

We also do an easter egg hunt every year, everyone brings a small selection of eggs, one of us will take the kids off for ten minutes while the rest of the parents hides the eggs, the kids love it! You don't have to do it at any ones house, we all go to park (which saves any bodys house getting trashed). I always think of the easter egg hunt as the first day of spring. :j

superchick0812

got 2 vouchers from pack of shredded wgeat and took he kids horse riding. Usual cost £18.50 each for a 1 hour lesson so saved loads. You can aslo try tennis, martial arts, badmington

ExiledWool

Are you in North Liverpool area? There's Formby Point where you can see one of the last strongholds of the native Red Squirrel. Walk a little towards Ainsdale where there is the coastline conservation centre.

And for the whole country, weather permitting of course, get on your bikes with a picnic on your back and pedal as far as you can. Amazing what you can find on a bike.

troubrs

If you live in Essex, a new park & ride has just opened in Chelmsford - off the A12, junction with A414 at Sandon.
It opened on March 31st & is going to be free for the first 3 weeks (then £1.50 per adult). For my kids, a trip on a bus is a real treat & we went last Saturday (even if it did mean driving further to get to town than usual just to get the bus!)

Becles

Walk round different places spotting things. It's free!

If you live in modern housing, go to some older houses and ask the children to see how many differences they can spot - chimneys, waste pipes on the outside, wooden doors and window frames etc. Or vice versa if you live in an old house.

Prepare a walk and a tick list (use pictures for little ones). You can make it easy such as a cow, a tree, or more complicated with specific breeds of cow, species of tree etc.

Go to a rocky beach and see how many creatures you can spot in the rockpools. Ditto ponds, bogs and other damp places. Take a jam jar and catch things to examine and sketch, but remember to put them back before you go home.

Get them into OS ways by letting them pick a recipe, going to buy the ingredients and help them to cook it. Don't forget to compare the price/quantity with the ready made version in the supermarket

SpanielsGalore

Winnie the Pooh fans could go to Ashdown Forest (East Sussex) and play Pooh sticks on Poohs favourite bridge !


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full-time-mum

Primary Times is a magazine for parent, teachers and children. It is sent home from our school every holiday and has lots of articles and sometimes competitions. The best section, however, is "Great Days Out". Not everything is free, but in our area, there are always lots of activities at our local museums and country parks which cost very little.

You can view all areas on
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ysoskint

some (not all) cineworld cinemas offer films for £1 for the children on Saturday mornings, adults go free. It's brilliant, my OH and I take our 2 children and pay £2. Pop into poundland first and stock up on popcorn etc. It's not the newest films (at moment its charlie and chocolate factory, wallace and gromit, and dreamer at my local one). But hey it's a quid!!! We drive to Bexleyheath cinema, as the Rochester one doesn't offer it!!!!

Seesaw_2

The best £2 I have ever spent- this is a huge old quarry site which has been transformed into the best adventure playground ever - there is a huge childrens area, then after a short walk you come across various other pieces of equipment like zip-slide etc. There is also an adults assault course which we didn't reach because we ran out of time.

Bring a picnic - there are no catering facilites on site (although there are toilets). Also wellies and a change of clothes as they have a small stream running through the park which the children are encouraged to play in - with stepping stones, thick mud puddles etc.

We stayed 5 hours and paid £2 for parking (on the way out). Around 3/4 hour from MK.