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If the forecast is to be believed then we are going to have a fairly wet long weekend with our kids - we will turf them out in the wet to explore all the puddles but anyone got any good children entertainment for in the rain?

Thanks

try fishing in the puddles

floppy

We spent a good couple of hours during the Whitsun Monsoon playing the following for which you will need small whiteboards (Early Learning etc);

Down the side of the board write the following; boys name, girls name, animal, food, tv programme or film, town or city, song title (you can add others if you want, we're not too strict on this!).

Now one person goes through the alphabet silently in their head and another says stop. The first person then says the letter they got to. Everyone then has to get all the subjects starting with that letter. When the results are compared you get 10 points for a unique answer and 5 points if someone else got the same answer so the more unusual the answer the better.

OK, so it's not rocket science but it kept our 5 and 8 year olds busy for a while.

Jumping in puddles.

That's what I used to like to do when I was a kid anyways

Hi Suttons

We find that Top Trumps are great with our 4 kids (aged 7-12) there are so many different ones now relating to programmes, films, authors and as I remember from when I was a kid the cars and football ones so there really is a set to suit everyone. They're also really useful on long car journeys as well.

Uno is another card game that we all love and because it uses colours, symbols and numbers can be played by young children as well.

We have a box for wet days/evenings with cards, colouring things and some travel board games and even when we've had to rely on them for long periods of time we've not had anyone complain they're bored. I think the key is making sure you've got plenty of choice.

Helen D's suggestion is good as well it's a game that a wide variety of ages can play.

Quote: Originally posted by lorrnev on 29/5/2007

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dont know the names of them all, but last week tesco was doing the travel versions of games like connect 4, 2 for the price of one.

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