What are you doing today with your children? (school summer holidays)

Becles

My boys went out to play this morning. They popped back briefly for a sandwhich at lunchtime, then appeared again at tea time. They're absolutely filthy and covered in cherry juice (loads of wild cherry trees in the woods). Good day all round

Spendless

dizziblonde wrote: »

I wish I was ever likely to be in that situation - but it appears I'm probably infertile.

Local leisure centre here's got a tonne of courses and stuff on - including kayaks and things in the pool... quite how they're planning on reconcilling the family fun with floats and things along with the lunchtime worker swim they've got timetabled in the same pool at the same time should be amusing to see.

Oh I'm sorry dizziblonde. I thought you were answering from a parent POV. Apologies.

gghh

Spendless, do you know why Harry Potter is rated a 12A?? My 5yo wants to see it (and so do I!!) but I wondered if it wasn't suitable for him?

Toonie, I love the scrapbook idea, might have to do that too! London Zoo is fab, we went there at half term, food and drink very expensive so take your own!

Spendless

gghh wrote: »

Spendless, do you know why Harry Potter is rated a 12A?? My 5yo wants to see it (and so do I!!) but I wondered if it wasn't suitable for him?

Toonie, I love the scrapbook idea, might have to do that too! London Zoo is fab, we went there at half term, food and drink very expensive so take your own!

Have you read the book? I'll try and be careful not to give too much away whilst answering your question. The 'inferi' coming out of the lake makes everyone jump. There are 1 or 2 'bloody' scenes (eg blood coming from wounds). There are also references to snogging and Harry being asked by Ron if 'him and Ginny have done it'. Ron's question is innocent but the audience got the double meaning. My 9yo didn't cos he asked why everyone laughed.:D Other than that I can't think of anything. There is a Harry potter thread running in the money saving arms where someone can perhaps think of someting I've missed (I did miss 5 mins or so taking my 6yo to the toilet.:rolleyes:). It is a long film and boredom factor set in for my 6yo, luckily the film livens up towards the end.

dizziblonde

gghh wrote: »

Spendless, do you know why Harry Potter is rated a 12A?? My 5yo wants to see it (and so do I!!) but I wondered if it wasn't suitable for him?

Toonie, I love the scrapbook idea, might have to do that too! London Zoo is fab, we went there at half term, food and drink very expensive so take your own!

Haven't been to see it yet - OH WON'T TAKE ME (he wants to go see silly Transformers)!!! It's quite a dark book, and it doesn't really have as much action in it as some of the others do since a lot of it is setting things up for the final bunch of action in the next one. From what I heard (brother went to see it on opening day - had to go at 10pm cos every other show was sold out), if you're going just for the zapping each other with wands or quidditch scenes the other books have you're going to be bored, but if you actually know the story and what's being built up to it's quite good. And yep... the spoiler is pretty well publicised if you've got an internet connection you'll have found it hard to avoid.

gghh

Thanks, I have read the book (a while ago though) which is why I want to see the film! I probably want to see it more than my son does but I have no one to go with!! Am single and none of my friends are interested in seeing it!

clairec79

showcase cinemas have got free showings on wednesdays (10am) for kids - they have to write a book review - not brand new films - different one each week - will probably take the kids to that one week (likely a wet wednesday)

Library have craft sessions once a week - also free (first one tomorrow)

Tibbie's_mum

Today I printed loads of free colouring pages off the internet, and my 6yr and 4 yr old must have spent a solid 4hrs colouring, the Xbox was forgotten and there was peace in the house for once. I cannot believe how happy they were to just colour, we're making salt dough tomorrow, anything creative seems to keep them amused.

karren

ive a 9 year old and 6 year old
on netmums there was a summer holiday planner so printed 6 of and ive jotted ideas down
friends are helping with the children on weds and thurs so on fri, im having the children around so thats a free day and im doing hotdogs which are cheap.
library have free things over the hols
free swimming
cheap cinema trips
im hunting out themed days ie they have a e.l.c castle so thats being put up and they can make things for that, ie cannonballs etc and
princess day for little girl and her friends, get them to dress up and be a princess for the day and do cakes etc on the theme??? im going to have to bribe the 9 year old to either take part as a prince (which i so know he wont, he will probably hide up in his room
then next week is another story lol

xmaslolly76

In an ideal world i would remove their batteries and have peaceful life during the rainy days lieke today lol.

In reality we have joined the swimming promotion thats on at the moent where the kids can go free for the next 2yrs and there is also a book club at the local cinema the kids have to write a review each week on a book they have read they get entered into a competion and at the end of the hols one lucky person wins years free cinema tickets my lad won last year yay!! they can also go to watch certain films at discount rates it wont be the latest ones usually last years block busters but the kids still enjoy it :-)