Family Days Tried And Tested

Digging in the archives I’ve selected over 100 different boredom busting ideas for the kids to try out during the school holidays… Indoors & out, sunshine or rain, here’s my choice to keep the kids entertained…
1.Make your own fairy doors..

2..Make a box dolls house using samples collected from B&Q… Be your own interior designer!

3..Make your own pine cone hedgehog pets.

4..Have an indoor campout..if you haven’t got a pop up tent then build an under table den..

5..Make donuts for the fairies using Cheerios & icing.

6..Take a train ride.

7..Set up a marble hunt in the woods.

8.Make your own Tree folk.

9..Have a cake decorating competition, buy value cakes for approx 60p each and decorate with icing and sweets. The winner of ours got a half an hour extra bedtime pass.

10..Make a milk carton bird house/feeder.

11..Tin can lanterns. Fill an empty tin with water and freeze, once frozen carefully use a hammer and nails to make your own patterns, once finished run under warm water to release the ice and pop in a tea light. ( best suited to older children, take care of sharp edges)

12..make a chocolate brownie, creme fraiche and fruit pizza.

13.Watch trains passing.

14..dig for hidden money at the beach (draw a square and bury coins to be found)

15..play elastics.

16..make a Reading hammock with a long piece of fabric.

17..Take a boat ride.

18..watch planes from the end of a runway..

19..Design your own clothes and use your phone camera to help you try them on.

20..Make a fabric or rope swing.

21..Become an outdoor artist.

22..Go stream fishing with nets and jars.

23..Build boats with wood offcuts from a saw mill and a bag of nails.

24..play in puddles.

25..Have a wheel barrow race.

26..Make some toilet tube tunnels.

27..make a jar fairy house lantern

28..make a matchbox art box

29..make matchstick aeroplanes.

30..have a mini marshmallow tealight toasting session.

31..Have a look at some art and try recreating it.

32..Experiment with eggs.

33..make an outdoor Lego Playstation.

34..Make an outdoor art Playstation.

35..have a mud tea party.

36..make an Elmer elephant from a milk carton.

37..make a woodland tripwire course.

38..get the kids to wash up.

39..make some giant Mikado using breadsticks and melted chocolate.

40..make an outdoor Reading area using a bed canopy or sheet.

41..put on a puppet show with your own lollipop stick puppets.

42..sail some cork boats

43..make an outdoor treasure table to put things you collect whilst out.

44..make a milk carton watering can.

45..bury your own time capsule.

46..have a kite retrieval challenge, make some simple kites with paper and string and throw them into the trees for the kids to climb and retrieve.

47..make a ribbon wind sock using a plastic milk carton.

48..make your own junk band.

49..create your own Man V food tea.

50..decorate some paper lanterns (3pack at Poundland)

51..make a sheet den by hanging a broom or stick in a tree using strong and hanging a sheet over it.

52..make you own picnic pots using jars.

53..try your own flower petal art.

54..make some fabric fairy wings.

55..make a mountain out if a molehill.

56..discover old treasure (you can buy old coins on eBay to drop to be discovered!)

57..make fun shaped pizzas.

58..do a penny search in the grass.

59..make some salt art bottle using salt and chalk.

60..make carrier bag kites

61..Make breadstick sparklers

62..Hunt for autumn colours

63..make a conker abacus

64..carve stick toadstools

65..go rainy day lilo surfing

66..make an autumn crown

67..make paper doiley ballerinas

68..make limpet shell mushrooms

69..make spooky eyes from toilet roll tubes

70..make an autumn lantern

71..build an under table bear lair

72..make some stick stump robins

73..Have a picnic supper before bed

74..go on an alphabet hunt

75..make your own beach art with a rake

76..make an under table house den with a sheet

77..Have fun with an empty picture frame

78..go waterbutt rolling

79..have an upside down back to front dinner

80..have teddy bear porridge

81..make a colour wheel with leaves

82..make some hazelnut owls

83..play in the park in the dark

84..make a homework station

85..take your duvets to the cinema

86..create a themed bath

87..do some extreme stairway boating (caution needed!)

88..Set up a bed outside for a duvet day!

89..Watch finding memo from a boat

90..search out fireflies, secretly splash glow sticks in the trees

91..make a fruit pizza

92..make your artwork come alive with playdough

93..play glow in the dark swingball

94..have a half term budget

95..become housework hereos

96..make toilet roll poos

97..build a rope swing

98..have an autumn picnic

99..play shadows

100..search for skeleton leaves

101 have tea on the sofa!

Tags: craft, fun, half term, indoors, outdoors, play.