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 bake different types of cake depending on what ingredients are in and what we fancy, as well as biscuits and bread. Beyond baking we also like crafty things, so painting and drawing and making things out of whatever we've collected up.

I bake cupcakes and cookies with the kids, or their Grandmothers recipe for banana loaf.

Me and my older children like making fairy cakes and ginger bread men/women! my older son likes helping peel potatoes and carrots whenever I'm cooking although he won't go near an onion! (He didn't believe they made you cry - but does now!)
We also love making our own pizzas with Greggs stottie bases the children love choosing their own toppings and designing them.
My youngest son loves playing with the pans and kitchen utensils while we crack on but this half term coming am gonna let him get his hands into the pies so to speak!

My little one loves making pizza and rainbow jelly. She loves to help out with dinner.

I love the fact my boy loves to cook, we have great fun together making all kinds of things. I'm not much of a baker myself but we do make some decent pies for which my lad really enjoys writing words and messages into the pastry before we cook.

anything and everything - but especially pizza so much fun choosing individual toppings - lots of slicing, grating, chopping, mixing and it is always eaten up.

DS loves experimenting with adding different fruit to a standard sponge cake mix. The mango cake is delicious, the pear cake maybe not so good :o

We love making home made pizza and bun cakes,my little boy loves the mixing and decorating.

My little boy loves doing bug hunts in the garden and seeing how many worms he can find when we dig over his veg patch and also likes pilling up the carrots when ready,also loves going blackberry picking and on rainy days loves playing with his train set or painting pictures or making collage with leaves

Bike ride with a picnic at the end.

Homemade pizza and sausage rolls

We don't really cook or bake together but I do try to get my boys involved in tasks by telling them I need their help. It can be putting laundry in the washer or tidying up toys, they like to feel like I need their help. As long as they are involved and they are kept busy they are happy and we find ways to have fun and productive days.

I don't think you can let the weather keep you in, there is usually something that can be done outdoors regardless of the weather.

We love to make cakes and cookies and always use Flora Buttery because it makes them nice and light and it's easy for my son to stir in the mixture, it's frustrating for children when butter is so hard it won't mix in. We often make sponge cakes with raisins or lemon and cookies with a mixture of seeds and chocolate chips.

Dd1 is a very keen cook and baker. She's 9, and likes to bake unaided now. She received a Mary Berry cookbook for Christmas that was her favourite present! For my birthday last week she made me a passion fruit cake which was delicious.
Dd2 is 7 and is much less confident in the kitchen. So together she helps me make the weekly cereal bars and prepare meals.

DD(6) loves making pizza with her dad. And one of her 'jobs' on Sunday is to help me make the pudding for after our roast - crumble, eve's pudding etc

She loves making cakes (especially the decorating bit) and we've started to try to recreate our favourite things we've had when out and about.
For instance, we had the dentist after school yesterday and had a cheese scone in a cafe on the way home. This weekend we're going to buy the ingredients and bake our own cheese scone.

My fail safe is making salt dough. The kids love making it then playing with it. I always also have stuff like icing sugar and sprinkles to decorate biscuits.

Easy one-bowl bakes for us:

• brownies
• banana cake
• bread dough

Have v happy memories of baking with my mum when I was little making and decorating fairy cakes too.

We love to make in the holidays. Dd makes a lovely coffee cake, sometimes we make brownies or chocolate cornflake buns, but often we just get out one of the many recipe books we have and choose something new to try.

We like to bake, and easy recipes we like are fairy cakes, and banana mini muffins.
We're also a big fan of traditional board games and can sit and play them for hours!

My toddler likes baking buns. Which means I make buns and toddler licks bowl clean

Fairy cakes, with icing. Or any cakes. Although my 4 year old's main priority is being able to crack the eggs, lick the bowl, and eat the products of his (minimal) labour. My daughter is a bit the same.

easy one bowl cake recipes.
it is enough effort baking with a toddler without any 'extra' fussy steps. and the results are equally scrumptious. .naturally
as it is we are measuring(>cleaning up), pouring(>cleaning up), mixing(-->cleaning up) .....

We love baking bread, cakes and biscuits. For her recent birthday my daughter got lots of baking equipment - cutters, icing bags/nozzles and we've had great fun trying all these out!

I have a recipe book from my childhood where most of the ingredients are margerine, golden syrup, cocoa powder, flour, eggs and milk so I can usually make whatever the children want from things I already have.
They quite like making biscuits with cookie-cutters and before Christmas they add ginger powder and a bit of cinnamon.

When they were younger- about age 2-4, I'd usually have some dough ready to go in the fridge as they'd be quite happy cutting biscuits out while I did other things in the kitchen.

My favourite baking activity with my children is baking biscuits, we all love them and it's so fun and easy to do together.

We like to make simple biscuits or tray bakes - the best bit is decorating them with whatever sprinkles, icing, flakes, glitters, silver balls and sparkly spray is in the baking drawer.

DS would happily play lego or cars with me endlessly, but I get a bit worn down by that so we do bake normally once a week (gingerbread men that we decorate are a favourite, but also cakes and other biscuits).

We'll also draw, paint, do play doh etc but nothing beats getting out for a good walk in the woods, whatever the weather (in fact mud and puddle splashing makes it even more fun).