To ask for your help....

[Thatsnotapotato]

My eldest DC (I have 2) will start school next year (as in Sept 2018).

I've had a bit of a battle with PND since he was born and I'm really feeling very down at the moment about how it has affected these early years with my DCs ( I am having treatment for that). I have found making a timetable or a plan to focus on really helps me, which in turn, helps everyone around me, and I would really like to make the most of this next year before we're bound by the rules of the school timetable. So I need 52 activities to do, one for each week, for the year ahead that we can do together (and with DC2, aged 2) in tow.

I'm not thinking big massive trips etc, just activities/things I can do on one day every week. Forest walks/making things etc....

Any ideas?

I asked the DC's what their favourite activities were from when they were tiny, and their list included making paper toys from a book we got from the library. We scaled them up and used wallpaper.
They liked den building indoors and out, and making sandwiches and jelly with bits in. and activities in the library which included mask, puppet and hat making.

Rock painting is a new thing which you could do! www.familiesonline.co.uk/life/news/could-rock-painting-be-the-next-craze-to-hit-the-uk

Thanks everyone, these are really helpful!

Download the National Trust 50 things to do before 11 app. It's free and the list is achievable. Plus there's no pressure as there is no deadline to get it done.

Start your own small veg patch with things like carrots, peas etc. You can plant together, water, pick and eat.

And please please (coming from someone who had severe pnd) it's not a failure if you don't stick to the timetable.