101 Things to do with children

If you are stuck for ideas of what to do with your children during the school holidays then take a look at our 101 things to do with children below.

1	Arrange a play date with friends
2	Make cakes or cookies and decorate
3	Make popcorn
4	Bake bread
5	Make ice cream
6	Paint a picture using finger paints
7	Make a den indoors or outdoors
8	Go on a train or bus ride
9	Have a film afternoon, close the curtains, turn up the sound and eat treats
10	Go to a local play park
11	Go to the park and find different objects to draw and talk about when you get home
12	Play a ball game
13	Fill the paddling pool with shaving foam and slide into it
14	Blow bubbles
15	Create indoor or outdoor treasure hunts
16	Play hide and seek
17	Place cushions on the floor and imagine you are on the train to the zoo, what animals do you see?
18	Dress up
19	Make a volcano
20	Make homemade videos
21	Make sandcastles
22	Do a jigsaw puzzle
23	Play with toys / games which have not been played with for a long time
24	Go to the woods
25	Make ice lollies
26	Make sailboats and race
27	Make paper aeroplanes
28	Play skittles
29	Make jewellery out of dried pasta
30	Make paper plate masks
31	Face painting
32	See what pictures you can see in the clouds and draw them
33	Play hopscotch
34	Skip
35	Play Eye spy
36	Make a mask
37	Play Frisbee
38	Camp in the back garden
39	Plant seeds in the garden, water regularly and watch them grow
40	Make papier-mâché balloon air models and paint
41	Decorate old t-shirts
42	Make friendship bracelets
43	Have a picnic in the park
44	Go to the cinema
45	Go to a theme park
46	Make gingerbread
47	Go swimming
48	Make and fly a kite
49	Make homemade jam
50	Do relay races with a friend / sibling
51	Visit a museum
52	Create your own scrap book throughout the holidays
53	Visit a farm
54	Play with play dough or make your own
55	Ask to pick some petals in the garden and make your own petal perfume
56	Go out for a bike ride/scooter or roller skates
57	Visit a historic place
58	Wash the car or a bike
59	Make some finger puppets
60	Make a theatre to act out your finger puppets
61	Go to a local river to feed the ducks
62	Find a park/woods with a stream and play pooh sticks
63	Create your own pirate ship with cardboard, old sheets and possible bits of wood
64	Create your own karaoke
65	Play party games e.g. musical bumps/chairs, dead lions
66	Create your own pin the tail on the donkey
67	Make different hats out of paper/card/material, you could be kings and queens for the day
68	Make an obstacle course and then compete with a friend
69	Make some medals and rosettes
70	Sit and read a book
71	Spend the day with a different relative or friend / perhaps a sleep over
72	Have a disco, turn out the lights and put some torches on and dance to music
73	Do some finger/hand and foot print painting
74	Create a large bubble bath and put bubbles everywhere
75	Make superhero capes….  Get some old shirts of a grown up and paint and create
76	Make some artificial flowers out of tissue paper
77	Visit your local coffee shop. Ask to take away some coffee beans, they make great shakers in an empty bottle
78	Put your waterproofs and wellies on and go jumping in puddles
79	Paddle in the paddling pool
80	Make a banana split
81	Make fresh fruit smoothies
82	Visit a zoo
83	Make paper aeroplanes
84	Have a pyjama day, stay at home in your pjs and just relax
85	Visit somewhere where you can pick your own fruit and vegetables
86	Go bowling
87	Dress up as ghosts with old sheets
88	Make some funky glasses
89	Play charades
90	Make homemade pizza
91	Make space ships and rockets out of cardboard boxes
92	Make a daisy chain
93	Play card games
94	Grow some tomatoes
95	Make paper hats
96	Sing nursery rhymes
97	Make Grass Heads
98	Go fishing
99	Have a water or pillow fight
100	Make a family tree
101	Have a photo taking competition