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

We like to make banana loaf cake, easy and quick and a good use of the bananas which have gone a bit brown . I struggle with crafty type ideas so have scribbled down a few ideas from this thread-thanks!

Ice cream cupcakes always!

My kids still love to bake and their fave is brownies, nutella brownies to be precise. They are very skilled now after making them for so long.

me and my little boy like making splodge cakes, 3 flavours, 3 colours in one cupcake, very yummy, quite easy bt its enough to keep him entertained for that short time. he also likes licking the bowl on any mixture we/ i make... TEAM WORK THAT!

My little one loves cooking and is great at it. She can get a little too enthusiastic though, and has a habit of making up menus that can be a bit too challenging. A recent one included osters for one course and very ambitious desert. She loves to be involved in the kitchen, and will happily undertake the tasks I'm not too keen on, like peeling. On cold, wet day the 2 of us love nothing more than cooking up a feast.

cookies as they easy to make and kids like making them in different shapes and decorating them

Lemon Drizzle cake, each of the kids love the fact once we put the final icing on we decorate it with different designs and edible sprays ... sometimes you cant tell what it is but they love it!

We do messy play with cornflour and water - amazing stuff!

We love banana cake, biscuits and fairy cakes

My lot love to make funny face cookies,with smarties and edible coloured icing,we make them for the 1/2 term club and sell them for 10p each in the afternoon, all the money goes to a day out at the end of club to pay towards cinema outing etc,we also make pizza's and fairy cakes with names on for birthdays for the children who have their birthdays in the holidays.

we love making things, so activities such as sewing and knitting are going on in our house when the weathers bad.

My kids just love making a mess! Not just any mess but a tornado of destruction throughout the whole of the house come rain or shine! I just take myself of to the kitchen and bake a yummy cake to sit and have a cuppa with before the tidy up begins.

We like to make homemade pizzas so the kids can choose their own toppings and they get excited to eat their own creations

Home made pizza. Dough is fun and easy to make and then they can put all their favouite toppings on themselves! Homemade triple chocolate loaf cake goes down well too!

Top Hats, always the staple standby enteraining cooking for kids!

I am only recently getting in cooking, and started with Sushi and baking bread. Got to start somewhere!

I love to make cherry shortbread as a fun rainy day activity :)

Our favorite bake day recipe is chocolate brownies, with plain chocolate chips and a white chocolate drizzle on the top

my two are still quite little and with lack of space in our kitchen we can't really do proper baking together, I do however let them help mix the ingredients for cakes and biscuits and then we all decorate them together in the front room.

we love painting with brushes, hands, feet, cars, trains...anything thats laying around and my little girl loves sticking things onto card (and her brother) to make it pretty.

i think our main indoor activity usually entails building intricate track systems with little mans train sets and then letting Thomas and friends go about their business on them!

My youngest son loves to make chocolate cake and banana loaf. My eldest isn't so bothered about baking but does enjoy eating the results!!

"...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" that's what wellies, gloves, scarf, hat and warm coat are for!

but, to the point. mine are 5 and 8, so we usually make simple biscuits together, to be cut into fun shapes, then decorated with icing and different toppings - hundreds and thousands, chocolate buttons etc. once cooked.

then build a den in the front room, put a film on, and hide in it eating them all me not the children

We love baking cookies. But another activity we like is using playdoh to create stuff. It's also something we use for DS's therapy so that's good for that too.

All bran loaf
Tana Ramsey Lemon Drizzle
Choc fridge cake
Mars bar crispie cake
Fruit or cheese scones

Otherwise we see a family theatre show and get outside! We are in the National Trust and a RSPB so make use of those.

My youngest particularly loves cooking and baking with me - he says he wants to be a chef, (and lots of other things)... but he also loves making things, he loves crafts and drawing and art - so as long as he has plenty of craft materials, he's very happy.

DS loves baking cookies. We bake so much, I can't keep up with eating them all. He does occasionally want to make cupcakes, but he is mainly about the cookies, and choosing out of his big container of cutters which shapes we are having today. He also got a lovely set of stampers at Xmas that you stamp messages onto the cookie dough with - e.g. Home Made, made with love etc.

I don't measure, so our cookies come out differently here and there, but always good. I actually think it's really great that DS (4) knows just by looking how much sugar to flour etc to use. We don't use eggs as we are vegan, so it's really easy just to do smaller amounts as I don't have to balance amounts according to egg usage, we just judge flour to sugar ratio. He loves rolling it out, and feeling the dough in his hands. Mainly he loves eating the dough though. And putting floury handprints on his mother.