How do you get your children busy and active over the holidays? Tell us for a chance to win Ready Steady Mo!, signed T-shirt PLUS £100 John Lewis vouchers

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Ready Steady Mo! is a fun action-packed rhyming picture book that will get kids reading, and running too.

To be in with a chance of winning the book, signed T-shirt and a £100 John Lewis voucher, just tell us - how do you get your children busy and active over the holidays?

This discussion is sponsored by Hachette and will end on 31 August

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We head to the park a lot and try and get out on as many walks as possible.

I fully engage with local council activity programs which can include things like kayaking in the swimming pool at the leisure centre, archery, fencing and climbing walls. They love it! Also I get them involved with the organisation Adventure Plus which organise outdoor activities and Adventure holidays.

Sign up to. Local council sports days - cheap fun sessions from den building to basketball . Go swimming . Walk when you can

We've taken our twins out on their balance bikes alot. They love it and its great exercise. When its raining we've spent alot of time at soft play centres or just turned on the music and danced around the house!

i hide the tv remote!

we try to arrange play time with their friends, trips to the park, walks out and about and lots of play time in the garden

We have a mix of very busy adventure days and some quiet recovery days.... trying to build memories but also give us all time to recover and have quiet times.

We theme each week, and create lots of 'missions' or 'adventures' especially for long walks! Luckily, DS loves being outdoors and is at an age where he can give us ideas of what he likes to do.

I get the kids to write on bits of paper everything they would like to do in the holidays, and I write down what I would like them to do for household chores (I do put fun things down aswell!!). We put them in a hat, and we take it in turns to choose a bit of paper everyday.

Lots of different activities - go out to different places nearby, go for walks, play in the playground. Just getting them out and about but making sure we are all together - so they see us all getting exercise together.

We have to be outside for a chunk of the day- so sometimes going to the local park and taking a picnic and some bikes and balls is enough. We are lucky to have NT membership, and there are often brilliant play grounds for the children there

Lots of different ways but Pokemon Go has helped this time! We also like to go out on the canals for a lovely walk.

Lots of picnics with a change of route to the beach. We live abut 10minutes walk away but if we go to some of the favourite spots thay can be anything up to 30 minutes walk. Then loads of running around , beach games, sandcastle building and the walk home means some very tired children who are off to bed really early allowing mum very large, smug, self satisfied glass of wine to relax.

This summer has been fab, because the olympics is on the tv. That has had an impact and my kids want to go out more and try new things and new sports activities.

We arm ours with nerf guns and set them free in a field.

It's total chaos but it guarantees children that are happy to go to bed

We make a plan for the week ahead and combine as many physical activities like walking and bike riding with more leisurely days like beach days. We always have a Plan B for inclement weather.

Since anything remotely energetic is looked on with scorn by my eldest two (11 and 15) I have had to get sneaky with hidden activities, such as...Hide the game controller and watch them hunt for it while giving "helpful" hints e.g. "I think I saw the little one with it in the garden" - this has the added bonus of them exercising their jaws and tongues through endless moaning about their little brother being in their room etc. Getting them to walk to the local shop on a shopping errand with the promise of being able to spend the change on their favourite chocolate -knowing there won't be enough change as the chocolate is no longer on offer. Byuing a single small bottle of a well known soft drink instead of one each - then placing it on the lounge floor and announcing a "free for all" where the winner takes all, stand back and watch what follows i.e. an extremely energetic mixed martial arts contest involving various copied moves /techniques from WWE wrestling , street fighting (various movies and video games), boxing, judo and Tae Kwon Do (olympics) - added bonus of jaw and tongue exercise ("you're the worst father in the world.."etc) and furious stair climbing , door slamming etc.The possibilities are endless with a little immagination.
My younger two (eight and four year old boys) are easy - they are naturally active
( so, so active. So very, very active) and it is infinitly more challenging to de-activate them! Still only two weeks summer holidays left.

we go to the parks lots and have bike rides and roller skate together :)

Limit screen time per day.
Plan an outdoor activity each day, even if it's raining.
If you don't have a dog , borrow a neighbours, great way to explore new parks, woods and get some exercise.

No problem. I don't drive so if they want days out, we have to walk to bus/tube and plenty of walking throughout the day.

Get them to draw up a list of activities they would like to do for the following week and see is we can tick them off depending on the weather.

DD is at holiday club for much of the summer holidays so doing lots of outdoor activities - clearly evidenced by the muddy mess she is in when I pick her up! When at home we go to local park frequently, walk the dog, do trampoline competitions, obstacle courses in the garden, Gruffalo hunting.....we love being outdoors and having a dog helps.

We have been swimming at least once a week and spend all day in the garden if we are at home. He loves Rugby Tots so we use some of the activities we do there to keep him moving. Dog walks twice a day also keep us all active.

The beach, the beach! My toddler will spend hours playing running races along the sand, finding shells and stones for the bucket and playing with her body board in the sea. We spend some time every morning and every afternoon doing something active - I think toddlers need time every day to run off plenty of steam and discover new things outside.

We like to get out to the park everyday. We also go swimmimg and play in the garden if the weather is nice