Holiday at Home

choccymoose

Rebecca01 wrote: »

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.

I love geocaching as does my family, there is an app for the iphone and blackberry. Google the geocaching forums and there is lots of advice on there. Its a really cheap but fun day out, kids don't realise how far they are walking either :T

Lilly11a

not that cheap just for the week but you can get annual national trust membership for an adult and two kids for around £55.00. This will give you lots of days out for just petrol money (take a packed lunch)

uk_american

If your girls are into arts and crafts...at around ages 8-12 in America, my grandmother gave my two cousins and I a load of large cardboard boxes, scissors and tape and we created a 'mansion' in the back garden by combining up the cardboard boxes into little rooms that we could crawl into and sit in. We spent the rest of the afternoon 'decorating' the rooms with paint, stapling tissues to the 'windows' as curtains, etc. It kept us out of her hair for an entire day, although my grandfather moaned that we used up an entire roll of *his* masking tape. It was a springtime activity.

For a winter one, we had cardboard boxes, scissors, glue and old magazines/catalogues. We spent hours 'furnishing' our cardboard houses. This one works well if you make each room out of a shoebox and then staple them all together, or for the older ones, they can have the complexity of subdividing a larger box into rooms.

Neither cost much money but 20+ years on I still remember the fun we had on those days.