School Holiday activity suggestions please

[cookie1]

Perhaps some puppets of some sort. Either finger puppets or simply faces drawn and coloured and put onto sticks. They could do the characters of a fairy tale, and then put on a puppet play of it.  No need for a theatre, just stand behind a lounge chair.

[Cornish Cream]

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Make a bird food cake with leftover kitchen scraps to hangout in the garden,thread monkey nuts to either give the birds or hang on the Christmas tree.Make popcorn but serve it plain or thread to hang on the Christmas tree.
Will keep thinking
Nearly fogot.A Yulelog but not a food one a log out the garden and decorate if.Spray collected pinecones with paint.
Play "Pooh Sticks" .

[chrissa]

Play "Poo Sticks" .

Please explain !

[Cornish Cream]

Play "PoohSticks" .

Please explain !

Poohsticks

[chrissa]

Oh, CC,  I had a completely different picture in my head 

[Halex]

My cp is into making his own comics at the moment.

[droverjess]

Thanks everyone. I knew what you meant CC.
However we've had so much rain it'd be suicide to go near running water just now!

[astarra]

Pen, paper, sissors, glue, old cataloges......makes a mess but keeps them occupied for hours (well mine, anyway.)
shaving cream on a table or tray and let them play in it...nice clean table after and smells good too...
mud pies outside... maybe not 

[Yvette]

Movie day

[obbie]

water bombs outside

[Cornish Cream]

Oh, CC,  I had a completely different picture in my head 

[Lucyluu]

If you cut about four pages of A4 paper in half, then cut 1 piece of A4 card in half you can make a holiday diary. Fold the card and paper in half  then simply staple the paper together or if you have access to a sewing machine sew down the middle of paper. Then glue the outside pages of the booklet to the inside of the card to make a small note book. If the children are old enough to write or draw the can put their holidays or any stories in the book. If not they can put stickers on the pages or paper cut outs.
My mum and I used to teach craft to the children at afterschool care and this was one of the top favourites

[astarra]

Being 6 and 9 (did I get that right??)  they should be able to occupy themselves a fair bit...
few more ideas:
- trips to the local library for books etc
- sketching
- sack races in pillowcases
- scrapbooking
- fingerpainting
- playdoh

[deedub]

What about Hama beads? Kids can make all sorts of things with those. Not sure if you have Ikea near you DJ but they sell the beads & boards much cheaper than the official version & they work just as well. You could get kids to sort the beads into colours, that would keep them busy for a few hours!
http://www.hamabeads.com/

[droverjess]

Thanks again. Will see what am allowed to do but at least I now have lots of suggestions.