What are your favourite baking and school holiday activities to do with your DCs? Tell Flora for the chance to win a £150 John Lewis voucher NOW CLOSED

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With warmer weather still far away, Flora would love to hear about Mumsnetters' favourite baking activities, as well as other indoor activities for you and your DCs.

Here's what Flora have to say: "We know that here in the UK, we're not blessed with the most predictable weather and as the first school holiday approaches and you’re still stuck indoors, it’s not always easy to keep dreaming up activities to keep the kids from climbing the walls that don’t eat into the household budget. Flora is here to offer a helping hand, baking with Flora Buttery is about having a good time, and not making the perfect creations – our all-in-one recipe couldn’t be simpler and needs just 15 minutes prep time, five ingredients and one bowl. Even better when you are all baked out and the tub is empty it can be used for fun, simple arts and crafts activities!"

So, do you have any baking activities which you love to do with your DCs? What do you like to bake? Are there any recipes you follow, or do you prefer to get creative while baking with your DCs?

If you're not a baker, do you have any other fail-safe activities for you and your DCs to do indoors? Maybe you like to work on arty projects? Or perhaps you've invented some games to play together?

Whatever your favourite activities are, Flora would love to hear about them.

Everyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will receive a £150 John Lewis voucher.

Please note your comments may be included on Flora's social media channels, and possibly elsewhere, so please only post if you're comfortable with this.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

My two love baking. This week I wasn't very well, so my daughter made me some ginger biscuits :)

we love making and decorating milk chocolate brownies.

We love to bake pancakes, rock buns and cookies. We like to have indoor picnics and play board games when the weather is miserable.

The DD's (6&4) and I like to make shortbread. It's really easy to mix and make and the biscuits are ready super quick which keeps them interested.

They do like cakes but they take too long for them to wait for a slice

Sometimes we bake cupcakes, but sometimes we just decorate biscuits... just usual digestive biscuits, and I'll let the kids go wild with their imagination. They've created dogs, houses and robots - mainly its the decorating bit they love!

Also - we have made robots out of stuff from the recycling bin. We used up cereal boxes, yoghurt pots, margarine tubs etc and stuck them together and coverered them in foil & created a little army of robots. That keeps them busy for an hour or so...

We love making Bread, all different shapes and sizes, weird and wonderful patterns, then we smear it in chocolate spread and pig out!

we don't do much baking but prefer drawing and painting and building stuff from cardboard

My 2 love their food, but often have trouble waiting !!!!! We always put on the timmer, helps them understanding. Pasta and sauce, broccoli, chicken pieces are often done for meals.
They love a 'baking day' and we can do cup cakes, cakes in special tin shapes ( I bought a silicone train one, which they love) , we have discussion on flavours which would go ( this idea is picked up from an app they love using on the ipad) once the cakes or biscuits are done we sometimes decorate, but not always as this is the 'high sugar kick', not advisable.
We have been trying cream cheese instead of icing.
They do love cutting shapes out of marzipan, which we put onto paper plates, or plastic sheets as presents for family and friends. Lovely at special times of the year : Easter, Christmas, Valentines, birthdays, Then we make gift tags and deliver........ getting some fresh air at the end of the day. Clearing up is often my job.

My daughter & I used to make the most simple yet amazing melt in the mouth cookies. These days, now she's older, she makes them with no supervision and only needs me for the oven. I love to watch her bake ??

We are not very adventurous (I'm not a baker) and tend to stick with gingerbread men, fairy cakes or choc-orange marble cake. For my kids it's all about the decorating - icing, sprinkles, glitter sugar .......

I make classic victoria sponge with my daughter, it's a lot of fun talking her through all the steps. I can pretend I'm Lorraine Pascal, my daughter doesn't know any different :)

We love making and decorating gingerbread men :)

We love making Scone Pizzas from a fab Ella's Kitchen recipe. Simple biscuits are also a favourite too - basically anything we can get messy with while mixing & anything which we can have fun shaping with our hands or using cutters with before it bakes!
Baking together is great fun - sharing the textures of all the ingredients is a good talking point & just enjoying the inevitable mess & leaving the tidying up until later. The extra bonus is that you can snuggle up together later to eat what you've made :) x

nothing better than baking days when the weather is cold outside, we love to make coffee kisses, victoria sponge and cherry scones a favourite with the whole family

we love making cookies and muffins great for the kids one of them all ways has a habbit of sneezing in the mix which I think she does it because the other one will never have any of hers lol

We love Face painting! :) my sons even attempt and join in doing eachothers and mine :) Helps them get creative :D

We love to cook Brownies and we have found a Healthy recipe too, so its not so sugary. we also love to go for walks in the parks, we go and pick berries and bring them home for desert making

My son loves making chocolate sponge cakes, and another favourite pass time is Scrabble, helps with his spelling though he does try and get away with some amazing made up words in an effort to win!

Love making just simple biscuits that we can decorate... Great fun! I do think all kids like breaking eggs though!

Me and the little ones both love making butterfly cakes, to accompany afternoon tea.

We get up to allsorts!
Last weekend, we got out the tea bags and make tea-bag stained treasure maps, made our own swords and treasure (with the use of silver foil!), and had a jolly good time!

Staying in can be so exciting-use a few sheets, a few discreet nails in the wall to make an amazing bedroom 'den'...use those christmas tree lights to make enchanting, and extra duvets and pillows to get comfy and enjoy snuggling watching a film or sharing secrets :)

making things with clay :)

DS and I love to make pizzas together...we try to come up with different shapes and colour themes. Our favourite is a dinosaur pizza.

I am a big fan of savoury cooking with my children, as well as the usual cakes and biscuits. I think it encourages them to eat better if they are involved in the preparation. My son's current favourite is ham and egg baskets. All you have to do is line a bun tin with ham and break an egg into it, then bake in the oven. Very easy and not much mess either!