School Easter Holidays – The Inspiration You’ve Been Looking For
It’s only day 3 of the Easter holidays are you’re potentially already tearing your hair out. We’re predicting that for many of you the children are running riot and you’re fresh out of ideas on how to keep them entertained for the next two weeks. You’re reading this blog because you are frantically searching the web for inspiration.
Well fear not, panic over, you’ve found it! Prepared to be inspired and rescued from Easter school holiday mayhem with our child friendly activities and ideas that should help to keep you relatively sane and keep them engaged and happy.
For those of you living close to Shelfstore HQ in Maidenhead – we have…
Norden Farm:
Norden Farm have the Easter holidays covered with their Springtime Festival. It seems there is something to do every single day. Running from Monday 7th – Saturday 19th April, for pre-school to year 11, there are family shows and film screenings, as well as a family friendly café and arts and crafts activities from £2 – £4 per person. For more information see their website .
For the green fingered:
The Easter holidays don’t have to be filled with activities that are only suitable for the kids. There are plenty of things to do that will interest both adult and child. Wandering around an English garden is most certainly one of them. Most of Britain’s gardens are in full bloom at the moment and we are lucky enough to have some of the best in the world open to the public. Harper’s Bazaar have showcased a list of the top 5 to visit located up and down the country, so there should be something for everyone. http://ow.ly/vyTna .
Shelfstore’s local garden from that list is RHS Wisley. Wisely have plenty of activities on for children this Easter and the garden is looking fantastic. Comes highly recommended http://ow.ly/vyTW0 .
And of course, other gardens to visit close to Maidenhead include Savill Gardens and the wonderful, Cliveden.
Day out with the kids.co.uk:
If you don’t already know about this website – www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk – then this may explain your current hair tearing out situation. It’s excellent, full of great ideas that will get you and them out of the house and you can pretty much find anything to do in any location. All you have to do is choose a region on their website. For the Maidenhead page click here .
Arts and crafts – a project for the week:
If it’s a home based activity that you’re after – arts and crafts are a sure fire way to keep the noise levels down for a few hours. How about giving them a project for the week? How about designing a new storage system for their bedroom?
A set of shelves for them to design and then paint in the colours of their choice!
The design part may need some help from an adult – you’ll need to use our online design wizard to create the shelving structure and then order it. With next day delivery your shelves will be in your little one’s hands by the following day and ready to be painted. With a little newspaper and a lot of courage – hand your kids the paint brush and away they go. For some tips on paints to use with Shelfstore shelving, please see our blog.
So there you have it – plenty of ideas to keep you going until Easter. Best of luck!
By Tony Fitz-Costa – Check me out on Google+.
Shelfstore is a system of creating furniture, shelving and storage solutions around your ideas – in any size, and to fit your space.
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