Seven FAB activites for children during the Christmas holidays

My daughter has four weeks of Christmas holidays.  Every year I’ve worked the holidays, so I’ve never really had to deal with keeping her entertained.  However as I’m only working two days a week now and hubby’s just been made redundant we aren’t for one minute going to spend £45 a day on holiday club - no matter how much she begs to go - LOL!

So being a good thrifty mummy I’ve scoped out the local bowling alley, it turns out you can bowl for £1.95 if you go between 10am and 12pm. An ice rink opened locally for the holidays but it’s quite expensive so we might have to give that a miss or see if they have a reduced rate time.

So that’s at least four or five days of the holidays covered!  To pass the rest of the time I’ve been scouting the Internet for ideas which are crafty, thrifty and fun and here’s what I’ve found.

1. Hot Chocolate Cones from A Simply Divine Christmas are just wonderful and will make lovely presents for cousins and friends.

2. My favourite thing from being a kid, making peppermint cream sweets - they rock!

3. Martha Stewart as always has some great things to do (seriously her staff must never sleep!)

4. youcanmakethis.com has some lovely projects and the instructions are easy to follow.

5. Salt Dough Tree Decorations Lily loves making these at holiday club so I thought we’d have a go at home, dough and glitter making a giant mess - what’s not to love?

6. As my daughter is just getting into sewing and I have some red felt material left over from the Christmas play outfit;  I thought we could make some mini Christmas stockings for the hallway decorations.

7. And of course the most important thing to make over the holidays, A Gingerbread House! Here’s a great recipe/instructionsfor a Gingerbread House, but I’m nowhere near that good at cooking or craft so I’m going to buy a kit from Tesco. Here’s the terrible effort from last year, we had lots of fun making it but it looked terrible.  At least it tasted pretty good 

If you have any ideas or tips, please post me a message - I’d love to read them!

This post was written by Liz, who blogs at Violet Posy. She is wife to Paul and mother to Lily a gorgeous five-year-old princess and Betty the mad gigantic black Labrador puppy.

Photo credit: Martha Stewart

Comments

[Susanna (A Modern Mother)]

We tried the salt dough ornaments today, they were FAB! Thanks for the list.