Summer holidays

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Aibu to wonder how your summer holidays are going for you and what you have done if you have young children (under 12)?

I am really enjoying the holidays with my DC who are 6 and 8. They are at a lovely age where they are not demanding toddlers but they want to hang out with me!
Paid activities have included the cinema and then pizza at a cheap local place, a family farm with those bouncy pillows and play equipment etc, a local inflatable park, 2 days of outdoor activity camp, and coming up 1 overnight stay in London in a zone 3 bnb with a kids bus tour of the main sights.
The rest of the time we have gone to local parks, beaches and forests, had play dates, gone round grandparents, and today we picked blackberries and baked with them.
It's been fun, I'm looking forward to the next couple of weeks then I think everyone will be ready to go back to school.

Amazing thanks.
We have been to Devon in the heatwave, Legoland, Norfolk - Broads, Bewilderwood, beaches and London. DS has done forest school and play dates with friends. We have been to a lovely wedding, seen family and been out for meals.
Have glamping still to come.
So lovely to have normal life back although miss going abroad.

They're not too bad for us. We have 2 dc, dh is a sahp and I am a supply teacher so don't work during the holidays.

We don't do much to actively entertain our dc and instead encourage them to play with friends, read, watch TV, play on the PS4 for a bit etc etc because I believe that they should be able to find their own entertainment, manage their own friendships and learn that boredom isn't necessarily a bad thing. I also think that they should be allowed down time too.

Having said that, it is important to do things as a family so so far this summer we've been on a short weekend break, had a couple of daytrips to local castles and NT/EH places and we're off to see the world on Friday (a Gaia exhibition is coming to the city closest to us). We've also baked and cooked together.

Our dc, 9 & 10, generally get on fairly well so are happy to play together as well as separately with their own friends so have done a lot of playing out in the garden and on the street.

We have spent very little apart from the £500 for the long weekend away.

I'm WFH so they are having to entertain themselves a lot of the time. They are 7 & 5. I've booked quite a few days off though so we can do things and am taking longer lunch breaks so we can get out each day. So far we've been glamping in Scotland, visited family, visited friends, had friends and family visit us, kids have done a gymnastics day camp, all their usual extra curriculars, been to the farm, different parks, cafes for lunch, been to the cinema. Got another long weekend planned 200 miles away visiting family and a day out with a friend planned.