summer holidays - nothing for todlers

[riab]

having a rant here, has anyone else found that stuff just STOPS for toddlers in the usmmer holidays?

I have every single dmamed leaflet and timetable produced by surestart and the city childcare link and there is NOTHING!
In term time there are:
6 playgroups, one craft activity, two tumbletimes, one music session, one mini gym session per week within walking distance all for under 5's and really for toddlers so the age range is about 0-3.

This summer for the entire six weeks, there are:
5 bookstart events - no good for an active 15mo who tears books up!
2 playdays
1 trip to seaside

and thats it!!!!!

He's already bored and i'm going mad
for the netire summer

round here every thing is for over 6 my ds is 4

Oh yes there are millions of things for over 8's and hundreds for over 5's!

Yes, same round her too. All the term time activities end. These are replaced ith summer activities for school aged children, and the preschoolers and toddlers are left out.

We are luckiy though. DD's dance class does continue through the holidays. Yeah

The local sing and sign lady is running a set of drop in sessions (older siblings welcome) during the school holidays.

It doesn't bother me now I have two children but when dd was a baby the first lot of school holidays were hard.

Move to Norwich!
We have Kidzones run every Wednesday - which are free. Theatre in the park for kids - which are free, and lots of things on at our Forum - also free!
My two and 4.5 and 2 and if it wasn't for these things would be totally bored since we can't afford to even drive to the coast at the moment.

maybe because the people who run them have school age kids and don't want to work then. I agree it is a nightmare trying to entertain them in the long summer holidays. My 3 year old twins ask every day "is it playgroup today" - they have no concept of how long 6 weeks is.