Best option for Saturday morning childcare?

[BigWellyLittleWelly]

I work weekends and DH is finding it more difficult than he thought to cope all day on his two days off work with a 3yr and 7mo. To be honest I see his point so we have decided to try and arrange childcare at our home for Saturdays 9am - 1pm. DH will be around in case of emergencies but will be able to get on with jobs that need doing around the house and work in the garden without two small antihelpers.

I am not sure of the best way to advertise this or even who might be interested, or how much it would be for two children per hour?

Opinions much appreciated.

I would get a local babysitter

Am sure a local teenager or student would be good especially as your DH would be around

Thank you for answering, Would this be something I could approach a college about perhaps?

Advertise and see who answers? Could try sitters / local au pair network / local nannies / local mother's help etc. My guess would be £10ph but depends where you live etc - you might be able to pay less.

If your DC go to nursery then you could see if any of the staff are interested in a bit of babysitting.

Would deffo try your local college

As it is only for 4 hrs and your husband will be around this may be the sort of thing a college student would be interested in.
Maybe you could ask at your local collage and see if they do a child care course as if so it may be just the kind of thing one of those students would be interested in.
I did this when I had my twins 2 yrs ago and also had a 14mth ds(as well as 3 older dc), our nearest college found us a lovely student who came up and gave us a hand for a few hrs each wkend for about 4 months, it was great experience for him as he was able to use it as evidence towards his course work and he was a real help for us. We paid him 7ph to do same hrs as you (but always rounded it to 30 plus lunch). He now comes and babysits for us in the evenings if ever our nanny is unable to.

No idea why my pound signs are comming up as ? in diamonds

My DS's nursery is open on Saturdays - there might be one local to you that is?

So do I just ring the college (I've just checked and the one near us does a lot of courses) and ask if they have a student childcare noticeboard?

DC do attend nursery but not on Saturdays and to be fair judging on our weekday rates it would be £12.50 each per hr rather than £10 per hr for both.

Thanks for ideas, it's not something any of my friends have done.

Where are you living? I'm a nanny and would be happy to do something like this, there are lots of babysitters/nannies who advertise on gumtree and childcare.co.uk.

Could they go a drama group. All around 3 hours sat am here.

Our nursery staff babysit for about £8 per hour (i.e. outside nursery time). I don't think they would charge more for 2 children.

Km I'm in Norfolk

I'll ask at their nursery too. I had looked at drama, dance and gym but after three full days at nursery both girls like a slow paced Saturday morning!

Is that rate for a nursery worker based on what the nursery charges? As I'm 100% certain that isn't close to what the staff are actually paid. I've yet to find nursery work over minimum wage. So most nursery staff would be delighted at £10 an hour.