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My two do scrap books of places we have been and things we have done.  They collect leaflets and such like and stick them in the scrap book and sometimes write about what they have done, which they can take into school for news time.

OH has a thing about travel games so we have loads of those.

Angie

I have a rule (which is usually broken by my husband!!) that the TV/video player can only be brought out of the car into the tent on the third consecutive day of rain!!!

A lot depends on the age of the kids - for toddlers we always had a special set of duplo carefully packed in a lunchbox just for holidays.

For older ones, games such as Rummikub are great becasue the playing pieces are tiles rather than card and so are not damaged by damp.

If the weather is not too cold, dress them in swimsuits and flip-flops and send them outside. (Much easier to dry skin than lots of damp clothes in a damp tent!). If they need convincing, then suggest a mud/water fight, and/or give them a bottle of shampoo to go and 'shower' in the rain! (You can always warm them up in the real showers afterwards!). Hopefully by burning off their energy outside, they won't be bouncing off the tent walls inside!!