What do you do with your kids on weekends?

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We do football on a sat morning but feel we should do more. Just pottering in garden today!

I was wondering this. I've been ill all weekend and feeling huge guilt for not doing more.

Limited funds so we chill in the garden on a day like today.

Life can't be all play and busy and 'what are we doing today'.

Sometimes it's just catching up with housework and washing and everyday things that need doing.

Football, rugby, homework, film watching, board games. Rarely days out due to all the mornings having a sport.

I don't like to have my weekends scheduled to the max. I'd just mix it up each weekend, a trip to the park, a playdate, helping with gardening etc. Pottering is fine imo.

We were at a theme park yesterday so today is playing in the garden while I cook and bake and potter

Cafe trip or maybe a lunch out, ballet classes, family events or meeting friends, festivals or events in town, swing parks (dc are 6 and 4), playing in playroom/boardgames together, watching a film on Saturday evening if there is anything good to see. Baking sometimes or cooking together. It's always too short

No set pattern to our weekends, could be a quiet day at home for everyone to recharge, sometimes we visit family or friends, sometimes go out to the zoo or park, pop to the shops, do the jobs that need doing that can't be done during the week. Plus homework, and birthday parties if there are any.

Ours do football/dance class on a Saturday morning and thats it for scheduled stuff, and I wouldn't want anything more. We walk to the pub with friends in the summer, friends parties, homework, housework and getting them to help tidy, sometimes do a day out on a Sunday, sometimes DH and I are away for the weekend and kids go to his parents, sometimes nothing at all.

Sometimes people make their non busy cleaning days sound scheduled like "today we're clearing out the loft".

Varies really. We had a non-stop summer and we're adjusting to DD being at secondary school now (she is 11, DS 8) so had a quiet one, other than having 2 friends over for a sleepover with DS for his belated birthday treat.

We are often seeing family (both sides live nearby) but sometimes we go to museums or exhibitions, or for a walk.

Kids are at nursery/after school clubs 4 days a week and we both work FT hours so weekends are mostly for downtime. Elder has football club for a few hours but is clear he doesn’t want to do anything else, younger doesn’t want to do any clubs.

This weekend was potter about and tidy the house, build Lego (birthday present), jigsaw puzzles, homework, football club, a bit of TV, park, garden. They need the downtime more than they need another structured club.

Often we’ll have a day out (museum or NT place usually, or walk in the woods) on a Saturday, but not always.