How do you spend rainy and cold weekends ie winter with your kids?

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We’ve loved summer, spent most of the time at the outdoor pool and playground or the zoo as we’ve got membership. I’ve got no idea how to translate that to winter…what do you do that’s as fun as swimming outdoors or the zoo? Its not the same in poor weather…I was thinking about a leisure centre membership like David Lloyd but wow, it’s a small fortune!

In proper crap weather we try to do one of the following at the weekend (but we also tend to have one lazy day too)

going out:
Swimming
Cinema
Bowling
Trampolining
Ice skating
rock climbing
Museum
Gallery

staying in:
baking
Crafts (loom bands etc)
Painting
Drawing
Lego
Chores and homework if we get really stuck 😁
Oh and also a bit of screen time.

(Luckily we live a bus ride away from a centre that offers Trampolining, ice skating and rock climbing)

We still try and get out as much as possible as well. We like winter canal walks and a nearby woods.

National trust membership, they often have indoor picnic rooms, activities on for kids indoors, trails in the gardens and that sort of thing. Take a picnic and then the cost of membership is well worth it

Thank you everyone

really good ideas here!

@WantingARefund we will definitely be taking up a lot of this! Thank you

Looked at Whipsnade and it’s really good value for a membership, thanks for the suggestion