Cheapest ever way at keeping young ones quiet!

esmf73

Just had to share this with you all. Last week of school hols, my kids 5 and 3 are doing my head in! The eldest has even had his mattress off his bed this morning making a slide :mad:.

What have they done? Gone into a cloakroom sized cupboard (which is full of stuff!!!!!) and have made this into a little den, complete with windup torches and lightsticks I bought cheaply in Tescos last year!

I bet they play happily for hours - and I can give them lunch in their too - explorers provisions!

Em x:T:rotfl::T

tinkerbellsmum_2

lol i used to play slides down stairs on my quilt as a kid

my dd made a racing car witha cardboard box she loved it played for weeks with it till i got fed up of stepping round it and binned it she is asking for another box now.
we have also made dolls houses out of boxs to
must say they where the most played with toys

smithyjules

sounds great fun!i left my 2 year old "washing up" yesterday (just her plastic plates etc!) while i hoovered...i came back and she was soaked through but looking very proud.According to her she had washed her hair and her face and her feet!Now usually i would smile but feel a bit deflated after just cleaning the kitchen or whatever but this time i just looked at her and thought...what harm does a bit of water cause?and laughed my head off!(then used a raft to get to her!)

This morning she is out in the garden with a tub of water and some paint brushes "painting the path".Marvelous stuff is water lol!

thriftlady_2

smithyjules wrote: »

This morning she is out in the garden with a tub of water and some paint brushes "painting the path".Marvelous stuff is water lol!

My 9 yo daughter still likes doing that.

She's spent quite a bit of this holiday making fairy houses in the garden using twigs, petals, bark, leaves etc.

Sons aged 12 and 14 just move from TV to wii to PC:rolleyes:

cyclingyorkie

when my DD2 was 13 she was still making dens in the garden....

juno

You could make a gag out of some old odd socks. That would keep them quiet!

Gigervamp

Dens are great fun. I was looking back through one of my old school books that was like a diary, from when I was about 7, and almost every day I wrote that I was going to build a den and drew a picture of what the den was going to look like!

My kids used to love sliding down the stairs on the cot mattress.

jcr16

when i was little i used to love taking my matress of bed and slide down the stairs. it was so much fun. used to make my mum fuming tho.
so when my kids started doing it i could see why she got mad, but i could also rememeber the fun. so what did i do.......................




i joined in,lol.

My kids love making den's. they have bunk beds so often in the mornign when i wake they have got up before me and got all the duvet covers out the airing cupboard and turned their rooms into big den's,lol.

domestic_goddess

My two love making dens using blankets and the dining room table. They made one last week and i was just posting the photo of it on my blog when I heard a smash and I found my best crystal fruit bowl shattered all over the floor. Apparently they had decided to use it as a weight to hold down one of the blankets....

Bless them... at least no one was hurt (except for my lovely old fruit bowl!)

rachbc

Mine are especially loving sliding down the stairs in sleeping bags this week!

Claire_Bear

I used to love making a den from my mam's clothes horse and an old sheet, then would go and sit and do a colouring book or something. Stuff seems so much more fun when you're in a fort! We made an awesome fort out of stuff in our Halls of Residence a few years ago, bearing in mind we were all students You're never too old to build a fort