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 |