What’s everyone doing with their dc over half term?

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What’s everyone doing with their dc over half term?

No one else locking them in the understairs cupboard with a few spiders & ghosts for company then?!

Tell me more about the giant gingerbread men! Thanks.

Two DDs aged 7 and 5. Things we have booked in or planned are:

An overnight visit to stay with family

Dentist appointments 🤣 (I always book their check ups for a school holiday)

A cinema trip

One of their friends to come over for a sleepover

Plus on Halloween we'll make some party food, give out sweets to trick or treaters and watch a "spooky" film.

Other than that.....not a lot. But DH and I are splitting our annual leave to cover the week and honestly the kids need a rest. I am quite looking forward to some lazy days at home reading, baking and sitting in our pyjamas with nowhere we need to be.

It's such a long half term isn't it, @GameOfJones. Lazy days at home are sometimes exactly what you need.

We stay in with Grandson ( age 10).. apart from a country walk every day..
We stay away from busy places.
Home educated ( ASD)... So we do the opposite to children who go to school.

Everyone is so busy, enjoy

DD is 6 and is doing a gymnastics camp in the mornings. Haven't booked anything in the afternoons as I'm not sure how much energy she'll have left. We have 3 new/refurbished soft plays nearby so we want to check out those. At weekends we've got a circus workshop booked, and we hoping to go to a theme park but haven't booked, we'll wait and see if rain is forecast

Pottery painting
Halloween tea followed by trick or treating with friends
community bonfire event by the seaside

two days of PJs, laying in and mooching as we all need a rest

plus usual hobbies are doing “spooky” sessions

DD1 (15) will meet up with her hobby group a couple of times and they also have a party arranged. She's going to a comic con type event (but lower key/local not quite like the big London ones!). Meeting another friend for bowling. She'll come on the family day out we have arranged with family. We'll all go to a couple of events at local churches. She also will have some lazy days.

DD2 (6, ASD) needs constant activities so as well as the stuff altogether we'll do playdates, swimming, gym sessions, the play cafe, SEN events, trick or treating. I've booked us all for some fireworks too.

Holiday club, we're working.

mum has 2 days off, dad has 2 days off, other days, Grandma (me!) is having them!

DS is 16 and has revision for exams after half term. His first set in Year 12.

We are going to the cinema and having a lazy one.

Just come back to the thread. Enjoy all 🙂

4 days at holiday club, one day at our local national trust garden (with a voucher), one day I might take them shopping (they keep getting taller!) and get pretzels. Maybe a trip to the cinema if the weather is bad, otherwise a park trip or two.

Just moved so it’s slave labour- breaking boxes and bagging pallet wrap.

Good luck Lapalma

Anyone going abroad

Yes. I don't like the heat so we went to Scotland in the summer and are going to Greece for half term. The temperature will be mid 20s so just perfect, not too hot. I am very much of the opinion that summer is for northern Europe and Spring and Autumn are for the Mediterranean.

Bits and pieces as I am working on and off too.
Ds been off for a week already and we have been to the Cinema, had lunch out, watched loads on Anime, cleared leaves
Next week he needs to do some GCSE revision but we are going shopping for new clothes for him and will have lunch out and then we are off to Center Parcs next Friday for the weekend

Enjoy both