What does your child do

[Neon7]

I have a 7 year old. Schools out, soft plays closed, weathers not great in Scotland so a lot of time is spent indoors other than a walk to the shops.

What are your kids doing during this trying time, how are they spending their days?

Specially interested if they don’t have a sibling their age. My other child is one.

Thanks

puzzles, drawing, jewlery beading, playing with siblings, "fashion shows", reading and acting out stories, board games, making a den,

and a slightly embarrassing amount of TV

DS always wants to be out, even when the weather is rubbish. It's great to tire him out but rubbish for me as I hate being cold/wet.

We always go for a walk or to a park for about an hour and a half in the mornings and in the afternoon he either plays in the garden or we play indoors with puzzles, drawing, playdoh, maybe bit of tv

He is 2 though so may not be applicable to your situation.

I take mine on 2-3 hour walks most days which includes a fair bit of tree climbing in the dry but just walking in the wet. We have been monitoring the local tadpoles, now froglets.
Orienteering is good too(look at British orienteering website - many courses free to print just now) or would geocaching appeal?

Lots & lots of Lego, then more Lego....
Drawing crafts etc
I read to them a lot.

They use the trampoline most days (we’re in Scotland too & they have perfected waterproof wearing trampolining )

More Lego & tabletop/board games

I’ve got a four year old. When weather is not good we do basic crafts - he likes gluing things, cutting things. We play cars a lot. He has a Brio mechanic set to build planes or cars with.

He likes physical games too, building dens, eating food in the den, hide n seek (all played with me!). We have some water books which he runs a pen over and pictures are revealed underneath. He also likes scribbling oh wipe clean books. The ‘sleeping’ game entertains him endlessly - I pretend to sleep, he keeps trying to wake me up. Skittles, throwing a ball around together. And TV of course.

My 5 and 9 year old like parks. Woods. Days out a farm and playing trains