i want to make a memory today - suggestion??

Ooh I love spontaneous trips and activities. The best one we ever did was getting up in the morning, booking onto the afternoon ferry to Brittany, grabbing passports and an overnight bag and going to Morlaix for two nights when our DTs were 2 years old. I had got up in such a bad mood that morning and DH said 'let's go to France' - so we did!

Sorry, here's a clickable link on that:

www.latourex.org/latourex_en.html

I think you are all experimental travellers at heart. See here for your next missions...

www.latourex.org/latourex_en.html

There's also a Lonely Planet book of Experimental Travel - out of print I think but you can pick it up cheaply 2nd hand via Amazon.

love this Iam

Love the idea of afternoon tea, & a proper teddy's tea party - I used to love doing that!

We do 'lucky dip hat days' - everyone gets to write what they'd like to do on a bit of paper and whatever comes out you have to do! Interesting that the kids stuff is often the simplest - it's much more likely to be dh & I who put random stuff in there
(Incidentally, it's also a great way of doing a 'jobs & fun' day - sometimes we pay that you can only put things in that'll last, say 30 mins. They dh & I will put some household tasks in, as well as fun stuff. The kids will do dull jobs without complaint when they know the next paper out of the hat could be a good one!)

Camping in the garden when it warms up a bit...

I am joking about the cellar guys, honest! I am a nice Mum and I do nice stuff with my kids all the time, regardless of whether or not the ungrateful little beggars will remember it.

Great thread, thanks for starting it.

One thing I do if we are kept in by crappy weather is an indoor picnic, properly pack the picnic basket and make flasks of hot chocolate, blanket on the bedroom floor.The children love it.

We have just got the car fixed and back on the road, so I think we'll take a drive to Ullapool on Saturday and get fish and chips. I know it's not spontaneous if I plan it, but will keep an eye on this thread for ideas to pick from to liven up holidays and weekends.

treasure hunt with some dc's friends, make a map etc

cheap or free --

collecting different leaves and bits and bobs from say forest then making a picture.

Making your own video - great for a memory box too

Some random things we've done that are fun, (our boys have had a tough year, so we have tried to fit in lots of good things alongside the difficult memories over the months)...

Letter boxing on Darmoor, like geocaching only low tech!

The boys being 'chefs' once a week, and making a posh meal for me and DP.

Camping as much as possible.

Planting trees, and fruit bushes.

Lots of dressing up, and having 'concerts', and discos.

Boat trip to watch dolphins.

Home outdoor cinema, in a field with a few sheets sewn together on a scaffold pole, and a projected film, hay bales and blankets to lean on, and a hotdog and popcorn stand, great fun!

Teaching them to sew, and to crochet on pins

Helping them to have a charity stall with home made crayons.

Crazy face/body painting.

Slack lining. I'm rubbish, but boys are getting good!

Making felt, collecting sheep wool from fences.

Making jam after picking berries, making wild garlic pesto, making elderflower cordial.

When me and DP were courting and skint we went to our local botanical garden (free) with 2p. We started walking and had to toss coin for left or right at every junction. Toss again if there was a straight on. We were in fits of giggles with people obviously thinking we were very sad, especially doing the same loop multiple times but we also went to parts of the park not previously seen!

(Minus moo and her cellar!)

My battery will probably die typing this but I've asked this to go into classics, lots of great suggestions free, cheap and paid ones. Nice to reminisce and in light of the dull cold time we are having with some nasty threads on here. I have put my case forward.

Tomorrow I'm taking my eldest and youngest out with a bucket for treasure hunting- that's a great one!

Buy mini versions of biscuits and iced gems. Make tiny sandwiches. Put apple juice in teaset teapot and have a proper bears picnic. Dd used to beg for this.

We also like going to exhibitions and having random competitions, I am stealing ugliest baby!

Love some of these ideas

Lovely thread, great ideas!
I surprised my DD by taking her to a local funfair today - not as great as some of the things mentioned but she had no idea we were going and was so excited!
We had a great time

Fab thread! For those (like me...) with small children who would not be conducive to a lovely afternoon tea then a trip to the local fire station could be a good idea. I rang our nearest one to see if I could take my small boys and to my surprise the fire fighters couldn't have been more keen! We're going next weekend. The staff at the fire station said that unless there's a call out, they'd get one of the engines out for the boys to sit in plus let them have a go with the hoses. Amazingly this is all free of charge although we're going to make a donation to one of their charities. We haven't told the boys yet but I'm very over excited - and not just at the idea of the uniforms and the pole

This is a lovely thread

I hope I remember this in years to come life is way too short

I do know that Yellow, I was joking.
But "making memories" smacks of Facebook boasting. Just do nice stuff with your kids as a matter of course. We jump in puddles every day walking home from school, we go for bike rides most weekends and evenings too in the summer, we camp, look at stars, fly kites, eat chips on the harbour. Surely these things are just part of the fabric of life?

Brilliant thread! I'm going to do the afternoon tea idea.

On the first night of the Easter holidays the DCs and I 'camped' in the living room. Sleeping bags, midnight feast, lots of (but still not enough) cushions etc.

I had to give up geocaching because DD flatly refused to put anything other than 10p in the boxes.

My DM was awesome at this sort of thing when we were kids (the GC are now benefitting). One thing she did (I expect it was raining) was put all the chairs and tables in the hallway and put blankets on top to make an obstacle course.

Today I went to see my DNieces and was greeted by the younger one (5) in a homemade Knight of St George costume, complete with wooden sword tucked into a fetching pink belt. She handed me what looked like a piece of old bannister and ordered me to sword fight. So I did!

I like the idea of getting a train randomly to somewhere you haven't been before, with some sort of mission -- the ugly babies in portraits idea is ace!

Geocaching is fab! We went for the first time yesterday. Found 5 caches. Very exciting.

Ooooh, Geocaching!