Activities for kids in the fog?

[LivingInTheFog]

Where I live it is foggy and will be for the next month or so. About 8 degrees. DS (11) wants a birthday party. I have said we will have to wait and see. There's no way we can invite kids inside but we live in an apartment block and share a garden with the neighbouring block. If we stand at our door, we can see the outline of the end of the garden. It's not long, nor wide, just foggy! There's. 6x6 patch of grass which can't be used as it's damp and muddy and a path (1m wide) leading from our front door, past the other house to the road.

There are two 11 year olds, one 8, one 7, two 3 who all play together in the garden. If I were to invite a friend from class that would be another 10 and 7 year old. (Allowed, we can meet up to 10 people.)

Beyond serving cake, what could you do to make it a bit more "party-like"?

I would put picnic blankets down and do a barbecue if you can.

Hotdogs, jacket spuds in foil in the coals, s'mores for pudding.

Obviously that would rely on having adult help to wrangle the 3 yr olds away from the barbecue.

Battery powered strings of fairy lights from poundshop would look nice on a foggy day, lanterns too if you can.

You could go with a bit of a camp out theme, so get them to build dens/forts.

I won't have adult help and we're not allowed to barbecue in the garden. I say garden....it is literally a patch of grass (with a sandpit in the middle) and a solitary tree. There are no other plants to scavenge branches or whatever from. I could decorate the tree though hadn't thought of that!

Ok then, rethink 😁

How about a big plastic tarp to cover wet grass, with blankets on top for kids to sit on, that could go in one patch of the garden and they can eat/chill out there.

If you can borrow a couple of thermos's from family/friends you can do hot chocolate and give them a couple of cans of squirty cream and bags of marshmallows so they can load them up with sugar.

Little kids would be happy with a load of balloons to chase around and the sandpit.

Older kids would they like a football match, rounders, cricket....

Were you planning to feed them at the party?

If so hot dogs could still work if you have a food flask, just cook the sausages, put them in the flask standing on end and then take some sliced finger rolls, ketchup or whatever down to the garden with you.

How do you know it will be foggy for a month?

We're 6 days in bar an afternoon on Sunday when the sun was enough to break through. This morning I can see the neighbour's house, the lane and the outline of the house the other side of it. Beyond that is a wall of grey! It's like this every year, and the forecast is the same for the next two weeks.