Things to do with the kids- on a TIGHT budget?

cleggie

thanks Elliebobs. I have looked into the cheap skate, but its 8pm-9.30pm and far too late for the smaller one.

But i reckon that i have got half term covered now!

Mon- Treasure Trail (£5)
Tuesday- day at friends house playing wii games (£3 to take nibbles)
Wednesday- spendig the afternoon with friends, although not sure doing what, depends on weather (£0)
Thurs- cinema (Kids AM- £3.50)
Friday- Stay at home day and general chill out day.
Saturday- Boring food shopping day and then go to the park
Sunday- Either go out to the park and play footie with the kids, or have an arts and crafts day at home.

YAY!

SDG31000

Mine DS's are now 12 and 15 and the idea of actually spending time with me is one that causes this face :eek: , but when they were younger we used to have country themed days. So we would chose a country and then paint flags, cook food from there, learn how to say hello and goodbye and easy things like that. The library and the internet came in very useful.
Also I turned the house into a cinema. The living room was Screen One and my bedroom Screen Two. The kitchen was the concession stand and I made popcorn and hot dogs and bags of sweets. This worked well when the weather was terrible and they were fighting like cat and dog. One watching their favourite film upstairs, one downstairs and me in the kitchen eating the leftover sweets.

mandragora_2

cleggie wrote: »

Thanks SO much for this!! Fab!

You're welcome Cleggie - I really hope you and others get the chance to look at and, hopefully use, some of these excellent activities. I'm not sure about Plymouth, but a lot of the extended schools co-ordinators in Devon are being laid off, and it is such a shame - lots of fantastic ways for kids to have great activities to do over holidays, for not very much at all, and often for free. Hopefully the schemes and activities themselves will still run, but it's going to be a lot harder to find them from the summer onwards.

katie89

Hi - I work for a cinema and would just like to advise you to pre-book the kids half term shows - it tends to sell out really quickly! You can go in days in advance and prebook, as opposed to booking online and paying a booking fee.

cleggie

SDG31000 wrote: »

Mine DS's are now 12 and 15 and the idea of actually spending time with me is one that causes this face :eek: , but when they were younger we used to have country themed days. So we would chose a country and then paint flags, cook food from there, learn how to say hello and goodbye and easy things like that. The library and the internet came in very useful.
Also I turned the house into a cinema. The living room was Screen One and my bedroom Screen Two. The kitchen was the concession stand and I made popcorn and hot dogs and bags of sweets. This worked well when the weather was terrible and they were fighting like cat and dog. One watching their favourite film upstairs, one downstairs and me in the kitchen eating the leftover sweets.

hahahaha...my 11yr old is starting to get like that! Thanks for the tip- today we are having chinese day! We are having HM chicken chow mein for dinner and the kids are upstairs online researching the language!

mandragora wrote: »

You're welcome Cleggie - I really hope you and others get the chance to look at and, hopefully use, some of these excellent activities. I'm not sure about Plymouth, but a lot of the extended schools co-ordinators in Devon are being laid off, and it is such a shame - lots of fantastic ways for kids to have great activities to do over holidays, for not very much at all, and often for free. Hopefully the schemes and activities themselves will still run, but it's going to be a lot harder to find them from the summer onwards.

Hi Mandragora- yeah its the same here in Plymouth, cuts everywhere you look!

katie89 wrote: »

Hi - I work for a cinema and would just like to advise you to pre-book the kids half term shows - it tends to sell out really quickly! You can go in days in advance and prebook, as opposed to booking online and paying a booking fee.

Thanks Katie- think i am going to book Voyage of the DawnTreader which is on Kids AM this week.