After 18 weeks of home-schooling, the prospect of another seven weeks of school holidays, without the opportunity to travel may be a tad daunting for many parents.
WAYS TO KEEP THE KIDS HAPPY AND BUSY DURING THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS
MORE outdoor activities with children since the lockdown?
Have you found yourself doing more activities outside with your children during lockdown? Have you made the most of those daily walks? Have you maximised your garden or outdoor space if you have one?
Hiking with children: what helps?
Do you enjoy walks as a family? Thinking about taking this to the next stage and increasing the length or difficulty of the walks perhaps? Plan out your route, pack up those backpacks and get hiking.
Playing An Escape Room At Home With Kids
Escape rooms are largely rising in popularity. Just ten years ago or so, escape rooms were pretty niche and relatively unknown in the UK. But now, the escape room has become an awesome option for days out with family and friends, parties or team building.
Construction Play with Caterpillar Toys
Do your children love construction play? Our youngest love anything involving diggers, sand, mud and construction…as well of demolition of course!
Summer Games for the Garden
With all the nice weather we’ve been having during this lockdown period, and, given that no one will be going very far this summer, I’ve been thinking about garden games.
Beauty in isolation: me time or just more time?
I think it’s fair to say that at the start of 2020 few of us anticipated being confined to ours homes for weeks on end. Few of us anticipated that schools would be closed and lots of people would either be working from home or furloughed…I mean, had we even heard that word before?
Can Video Gaming Be Fun for the Whole Family?
We are not a family who play video games. We do not have a games console in the house, which, these days, seems very rare. Many of our children’s friends play video games, and if they don’t, their parents do