What d you do "with" your school age children in the holidays

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I am fortunate to have flexible working arrangements, which mean I get 3 full days pw with my DCs in the holidays. My DCs are 7 & 9

I have been looking forward to doing loads with them for weeks, but now it's here I find they're mostly doing things without me.

Yesterday I took them to the woods and we enjoyed following a nature trail together, but then they climbed some trees and spent some time running up and down hills (I tried to join in a bit) A lovely day, but I didn't really feel they needed me there (could have been a childminder IYSWIM)

Today they've been to a holiday camp at our sports club, where they've had great fun playing games, doing art and swimming, while I got some housework done and went to the gym. I intended to have "quality time" this afternoon, but they wanted to stay and play with their friends and I'm all for encouraging social skills, so we stayed and I read and had a coffee. Again, a nice day but...

Tomorrow they want to play out on their bikes with local friends. I could be at work

Don't you have jobs in the house to catch up on anyway?
Scrambling around in the woods sounds like quality time to me, don't knock it.

geocaching!!! go on,google it!! perfect activity for all ages

I wouldn't force it TBH. maybe just arrange some fun things to do and they'll want to do them at some point. just part of kids growing up unfortunately

I used to do a lot of fun 'activities' with my stepkids, as they'd stay over in the hols but DH would be at work. a few ideas:

write a story together, print and illustrate it.
make a board game and play it.
make posters on a particular subject, and go to the library to research it (managed to do this despite my DSDs not liking 'schoolwork')
treasure hunt.
simple stuff - swimming, tennis court or whatever. maybe get a new sports kit, you can get really cheap cricket/baseball sets?