What things do your kids think are a real treat that are really quite simple?

[TitsalinaBumsquash]

My kids today have been over joyed at a "camp" made from putting two sheets up either side of thier bunk bed to enclose the bottom bunk.

Also havng fresh bedding on thier beds they think is a treat even though it gets done every week.

Things like putting on music full blast and having a mad dance they think is great.

What things do your kids think are fab even though they are uite simple and sometimes every day sort of things?

Feeding the dog

Holding the dog's lead

Washing up

Being allowed some of my perfume or lip gloss on

Seeing me on the top of her bunkbead (especially seeing me trying to get down!)

Blowing bubbles

Chalking on the patio - sometimes with chalks, sometimes with flinty stones

Standing on a chair and stirring something on the stove

Washing the car/watering the flowers - loves the watering can and the hosepipe

Opening post

dd (aged 8) thinks doing the ironing is a treat, she also thinks apples are a treat - she gets 3 a day.

Going to stay at her Gran's house.

Charity shop book buying.

Flying the kite

Hot Chocolate

Going out in the rain

Playing in the garden - we lived in a highrise for 3 years so it is a luxury staying somewhere that has a garden

Picking fruit & veg from the garden

Sharing food (i.e. eating mine)

Chalking on the patio

Seeing the upstairs neighbour

Pancake breakfasts

Pyjama / nude bouncing on the trampoline

Apples straight from the tree

Hot chocolate

Opening the dogs crate in the morning

Liking the bowl after cake making

Helping to put soap / fabric conditioner in the washer and turn it on

My Ds loves boiled eggs and soldiers (better than chocolate!)

Doing the hoovering for me (he keeps asking to clean the toilet )

Going on a bus (or train)

Jelly and Ice Cream - or Ice Cream and "squirt" as they call it - those different flavoured syrup things for putting on icecream.

dd ADORES feeding the ducks and pigeons in the park

Helping me chop vegetables for dinner

Making a tent in the living room with a blanket between two sofas

Getting in bed with me at the weekend in the morning and being allowed to watch a DVD in bed

Pouring her own cereal

Chopping her own fruit and then dipping it in a yoghurt

Being allowed to stay up late and watch a'grown up' programme on t.v (such as X Factor, Strictly Come Dancing etc)

Trips to the local park - we don't do it often because of work/nursery so when we do it is seen as a major treat

Making fairy cakes
going for a picnic to the park
having ice cream cones with sprinkles sleeping in one anothers rooms
having a cinema day at home
doing a fashion show including mummy and daddy
water fights
making a meal themselves , albeit sandwiches etc

My boys love "picnic" meal times. I find it's the best way to get them to eat new foods as well!

Eating any kind of fruit
Helping me hoover
Helping to wash up

This thread is fab!

Ds nearly 6
DD 3.5

Using the electric carpet sweeper (they fight over this!).

Going to the 'big' Tesco

Having a 'little party' in ds' bed at bedtime

Strawberries

Playing music in the car

Baking

Going on public transport

Having anyone stay (doesn't matter who it is)

Drinking their juice from posh sherry glasses at Sunday lunch

Going to a cafe

Actually, if they are so easy to please, why do I try so bloody hard all the time?

de shelling pistachio nuts then eating them
putting the soap tablets in the washer
getting the post as soon as the postman puts it through the door
watching the window cleaner from inside the patio doors, especially when he draws smiley faces with his soap
watching me having a shower, especially when i draw smiley faces on the shower screen in the steam

Stickers and a piece of A3 paper.

Having a friend round.

Getting the paddling pool or the sand/water play table out.

Gardening.

Going to Grandma and Granpa's for a few days without Mummy or Daddy. Now that one I really like!!!!!

Dd - 5 years

Cleaning the bathroom (!)

Having drop scones at the weekend.

Baking and licking the bowl.

Dancing, and more, people watching her dance.

Looking out of an open window.

Scootering anywhere.

Being in the garden.

Strawberries from grandma's garden, in fact anything from Grandma's is pretty cool. Grandma rocks.

Jumping in muddy puddles

Playing 'Going to africa' -- underneath duvet, practicing being quiet and hiding from lions and tigers. (and then have a nap, because it's tiring on safari

Going gorilla shopping

DD loves washing up and all of them love a cheap can of smartprice shaving foam to play with in the bath.

They also like sweeping with a dustpan and brush and wiping radiators with a baby wipe .

DD - 20 months
Strawberries
If I join in with the game of feeding dolly/teddy, very exciting if mummy pretends to eat the imaginary food.
Pushing dolly in her toy pushchair
Putting dolly to bed
Putting bubbles on mummy's face at bathtime
Helping cleaning the bathroom (I'm sure this one won't last)

having lunch or dinner on the lawn as a "picnic"
helping me to make cheese and pickle sandwiches
helping me make bread - especially kneading the dough
watering the flowers
playing with insects in the garden
having her bath
going to the swimming pool
going on the bus
wheeling her dolly in the pushchair around the supermarket
jumping up and down on mummy and daddy's bed
having a "great big cuddle"

I had to persuade ds to lick the bowl out last time I made a cake. Un-natural child!

Things ds (6) regards as a treat:

Bouncing on Mummy & Daddy's bed
Going on a bus. Or a train.
Being allowed to feed the cat.
Picking the cat up (I am always trying to STOP him doing this).
Designing posters and sticking them on the walls with blu-tac. VERY exciting if I let him put them up in the sitting room.

Hot chocolate with squirty cream.
Frijj milkshake
fizzy pop
apple pie
jam roly poly and custard.
A new tooth brush
making their hair spike up in the bath.
using conditioner on their hair.
Clotted cream scones
Mum playing tig/hide and seek.

I am going to print this thread and keep it for ideas!

What a lovely thread!

Puddle jumping

Fresh peas from the pod (letting her do it herself)

Having flowers in her room

picking blueberries

Getting to take a doll or a matchbox to the playground

tent in the living room

feeding the ducks

we caught a frog (saved from lawn mowing) and kept if for a day and she talked about it for weeks!

Ice cream in a glass topped up with lemonade.
Getting a letter through the post.