Holiday at Home

lindens

A picnic is always fun when you are young. They can help with preparing the food and even if the weather was bad we would have our picnic on the living room floor! we would lay out a picnic rug and still use all the plastic/paper plates etc.
on the same theme, an indoor disco, shut the curtains to make it dark, have a dancing competition, play some cheesy tunes that have well known dance moves to go with them.

Seanymph

How about a treasure hunt?

You could do it with photographs - either indoors or out of doors - pick things they'd recognise, the bathroom cabinet, a phone box on the way to school - back it up with directions to read.

Put a letter in each location that spells a treat - or a treat in each place (like a face pack, or dvd or something) that leads onto a treat for later.

dibuzz

It all depends on what sort of things they enoy, the spa day/make up thing would have my daughter running for the hills.
Our school holiday activities were more picnic in the park sort of things, always accompanied by a football for the youngest 3 and a book for the eldest who loved the climbing frames etc but didn't enjoy a kick about.
We camped out in the back garden a few times too and cooked breakfast on a camping stove.
More than anything, just have fun together, they grow up far too quickly.

Rebecca01

Do you have a smartphone ?

If you do, Geocaching can make walks alot of fun. We have found a few without using our phones aswell , just by getting the directions off the Geocaching website.

My family all love it and they get so excited when we find a well hidden cache. You can even hide one yourselves and see if anyone finds it.

suki1001

Rebecca01 wrote: »

Do you have a smartphone ?

If you do, Geocaching can make walks alot of fun. We have found a few without using our phones aswell , just by getting the directions off the Geocaching website.

My family all love it and they get so excited when we find a well hidden cache. You can even hide one yourselves and see if anyone finds it.

I've heard of this, it sounds like really good fun. Can you use a blackberry, we don't have an iphone.

Rebecca01

I am not sure, I know there is an app for the android phone but I am not sure about the blackberry. There are GPS devices that. An be bought but not sure of their cost.

It can be done without them but it can make it really difficult depending on where the cache is hidden. We have found about three just using location and clues off the website.

barbarawright

I use to love the blanket-over-the-table = tent thingy when I was their age. Why not let each of them control the activity for a morning or afternoon and give them a budget of £5 or whatever - you could plan ahead and look in charity shops for old board games or puzzle books and stuff. I liked quizzes too - you could print out a few quizzes from the net and have a tv-style quiz for them. Do they have friends near enough to visit to join in the treasure hunt so you could have teams?

VfM4meplse

Baking? Making mosters / animals out of popcorn?

SkipE

Do you have a charity shop nearby? Give them a fiver each tell them that they have to come up with a whole outfit and then have a fashion parade later on. Mum has to join in and they have to do their own hair and make up.

Brighton_belle

Do you have a camera or can you get some cheap disposable cameras so they also act as photo journalists for the week and at the end of the week make a newspaper of their week with all the things you are planning?
You could have the following sections, depending on what you had done:
travel
sport
fashion
the natural world
'news'

Would they be interested in putting together questions to interview you, or a neighbour or something about perhaps your childhood or something.