How do you make a 5 year old boy's day?

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Just that really . I'd like some ideas (preferably cheap and simple) for making a 5 year old boy smile.

Train/bus ride?

Take him to the pound shop and tell him he can have anything he wants .

agree with smallships - DS is nearly 4 but a train journey and a picnic would do it for him

plus the chance to buy a small treat of some sort

• let him stay up later than usual
• let him choose what to have for dinner and help make it/go and buy ingredients
• picnic at the park

Great ideas. Any others for things I could do after school? He likes making things at the moment, but that's v trcky with 2 younger ones to look after as well.

and thank you for replying

A letter or parcel in the post addressed to him?

Would he be interested in a postcard from overseas? I could send him one of our village in Switzerland.

If you live in London, a trip on the DLR. He can sit up the front and be the driver.

Let him dig buckets of earth down in the cellar and heave them up on pulleys into a skip. We are currently offering this service to various visiting children, they are very impressed. And meanwhile our cellar is getting dug out nicely.

My ds is just 5 and his idea of heaven is me saying yes to everything. You could indulge him the short time after school and between bed. And throw a kinder egg in for extra points. My ds also thinks its the best day if he is allowed a picnic on the floor of the lounge in front of tv for his tea, followed by 100s and 1000s on ice cream for pudding.

Hope that helps.

We're not in London, but I'll bear that in mind for the next time we visit. The older 2 would both love to play at driving a real train . Maybe I'll send him something in the post, he'd love that. I have on occasions left him notes in his bed.

I think it's hard being the eldest of 3 very young children and he doesn't get as much of our time as he'd like. That's the one thing I find it very hard to arrange for him .

My ds is only 3 but was delighted the other day because he got to get chippy chips for tea

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My 6 year old is also the eldest of three and it's hard to do things he really likes when his younger brothers are around smashing up his lego etc - so my suggestion would be to try and arrange one afternoon when it's just you and him, and do absolutely anything at all. DOn't know if you have any friends/relatives who would look after your little ones for a couple of hours, but it makes each child feel really special to have even a short bit of one-on-one time with one of their parents.

Yeah, I know Baron . No willing babysitters and an exclusively breastfed baby makes it v hard. I can send him out with dh occasionally, but I want to do nice things with him.

ooops MmeLindt that's a very kind offer .

lol at digging out the cellar.

DS is almost 5yo and he loves picnics in front of the TV. "as a very special treat".

Lately he is mad for the Panini football cards. They cost CHF 1 a packet and keep him amused for ages. And at the same time he is learning his numbers.

What a lovely thread! ds1 is 4.10 and has 2 younger siblings, including exclusively bfed dd (9w), so I sympathise! I don't know how practical it is where you live, but ds1 has been doing castles at reception so when we have a day off I've taken them to one of the many round here - his face is just alive with excitement (plus dd sleeps in the sling so we all get a bit of peace and quiet!). I've taken pictures whenever we go, and made a photo book on snapfish and had it sent to him.

If you send me your address, I will send him a postcard.

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