FUN for kids & Grown ups!

We found these great ideas for weekends, for rainy days or just for when your kids are bored (and you parents as well).

What better way to start than a quick easy way to make homemade playdough. It's a lot quicker than getting the kids ready and going out to the shops to buy some over priced store bought playdough. You can also make whatever colour you (or your kids) like, and as much of the stuff as you can store. Enough to make whatever their imagination wants to create.


Everyone has a big box lying around, storing something that could probably be thrown away or given away to charity (no pressure!) Especially just after Christmas! This is a superb idea by a fellow blogger at picklebums entitled what to do with a big box. This will keep them entertained for hours, days, weeks. The box is always the best part of a gift!!!!

Do you have lots a broken crayons at the bottom of a drawer, toy box, (or handbag mums?) or better still loads of half full boxes of crayons that have been acquired from restaurants just sat in the back of the car? Well this will clear up the mess, be great fun for you and the kids and makes something great to play with. By making your own crayons. you can make multicoloured large single colour, lots of shapes, depending on your range of baking trays. Get baking crayons today and see what you can create.

This last one is great, I wish we'd done this when I was little, it would have probably stopped me getting into trouble doing a similar thing with wet toilet roll!! but this is great fun and and a lot less messy. Written by another blogger to give your kids hours of fun and get rid of that excess energy. Its called sticky spider web, you create a large spider web using broad sticky tape, across a door way or room opening. Then screw up old newspaper, magazines (just raid the paper recycling) and let your kids throw indoors without worrying about the windows getting broken. Great fun have a look and do it for the kids :-)

We hope you have as much fun doing all these things as we have finding them. keep us updated on what you've created on our comments section.