Half Term Holidays
Well we are half way through the half term holidays and here are a few tips for the holidays!!!
Take in a free event
In London the Imagine Children’s Festival is on until Sunday 21st February at the Southbank Centre. Every day from 10.30am to 4pm kids can enjoy theatre, literature and music and take part in free workshops and activities.
Have a look at Free-events.co.uk and wherecanwego.com for more events going on in your area over the course of the week.
Watch a film
For a lazy start to the day, Vue cinemas host Mini Mornings every morning during the holidays. Both adult and child tickets are £1.99 (3D £2.79) for selected movies, so you could release your inner child for very little expense.
Odeon offers something very similar with Odeon Kids. Kids and adults can go every morning during the school holidays at a slightly higher ticket price of £2.50.
Go bowling
Head over to your local Tenpin from Monday to Friday and get a cracking Eat and Play deal. If you go before 5pm, kids can get two games of bowling and a burger meal from £8.99 and you can get the same for £13.99. Deals vary between bowling alleys so check the Tenpin website before you go.
Learn a new skill
There’s everything from free scales and fins pet workshops at Pets at Home stores to digital art drop-ins at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Hobbycraft also runs free workshops for kids in some of its 81 UK stores over the weekends and during half term. Check if your local one is running one.
Alternatively stay in and pass on your own skills (think instruments, drawing, cooking) to the kids.
Get sporty
If the weather holds up, get them outside for a bit of a kickabout. Find out where to get free holiday football coaching at various skill centres throughout England.
Or if the kids prefer a spot of tennis, clubs up and down the UK offer free weekly tennis coaching lessons in public parks and free ‘walk on and play’ in certain courts.
The National Trust has a number of cycle routes for families too as well as some great walks including walks for little legs so that the young’uns don’t get too tired.
Councils across the UK offer free swim programmes for certain residents, so check out your local council’s website to see if you or your children are eligible.
Soak up some culture
There are free museums up and down the country just waiting to be explored, and many of them host special events for children during the break.
If you’re in or around London, there’s plenty of children’s theatre to keep them entertained too. For example, if you go and see Old Mother Hubbard at the Little Angel Theatre you can get tickets for £10 each for performances between Monday 15 and Wednesday 17 February.
Get cooking
Make something with your child, a cake, pasta dishes, something fun they can get involved with. The meal will be twice as enjoyable.
Get creative at home
You don’t have to go on a grand adventure to have a memorable day with the family. Find something you can all do together like play a game or do a project which the whole family can get involved in.
It can be as simple as grabbing some old scraps and getting crafty. There are thousands of projects available online, including ones that can be made using household junk.
Enjoy the half term with the little cherubs and do write in or send us pictures on our facebook page, as to how you got on.
The Team at Childcare International.
