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.

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Thanks and good luck,
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They both love cooking, it's just finding the time to do it. When we do bake we like trying different recipes depending on the mood, it does mean we have to keep a wide range of ingredients in though. We're trying quick recipes at the moment latest being a chocolate mousse, although I'm sure we ended up with more ingredients on them than in the bowl! Oh well the messier the better. Simple recipes with a few ingredients are definitely the best

I'm not that good at baking, only ever attempted to make cupcakes, recipe given to me by a good friend who is excellent at baking. I'm much better at cooking meals.

i like to make sticky toffee pudding - it's about the only thing i don't burn in my cake repertoire!

I love to try and get my children out and about as much as I can so we go forwalks up the coast or into the countryside with our dog or we go cycling. If the weather is bad, I love to do art and craft activities with my children or bake scones, tartlets or biscuits.

We like to make cookies together

We make brownies, scones, muffins and DDs favourite, home made pizzas. She loves rolling out the dough..

Other than that we paint and play with play doh and make dens with the clothes horse.

Sounds really quaint in a digital age, but we like to spend a few hours sorting through our old photos and putting them in some kind of order. On a bleak winter's day, it is therapeutic to review some lovely holidays and days out in the better weather!

Although we enjoy baking buns and cakes, these days the emphasis on healthy eating.

We have started making more soups, using ingredients found in the fridge and veg basket. Adding a few different herbs changes flavours, and makes interesting soups.

My grandchildren also enjoy Origami, finding instructions on the internet.

Though we're not very good at it!

We like to make chocolate brownies together and then go to the park.

Gardening

The little ones loves making cookies of all shapes and decorations

My cildren are older now, but I was never great at baking. We did lots of other crafft activities though, such as painting and papier mache.

Love baking cookies and cupcakes

Our son loves cooking, even just helping to prepare meals. I think this is a great foundation for his life. As a treat, he does love to bake cupcakes & cookies, but they never get a chance to cool because he can't wait to taste the fruits of his labour!!

I have always cooked with my children and other peoples and I keep a folder of well tried recipes cut out from magazine, downloaded or given to me by friends. I always try to bake a range of foods so that children learn to cook more than cakes and biscuits

We try to make a rainbow cake every half term (7 thin sponge layers, coloured with food colouring). It gets better each half term but our still a long way off being perfect. It has become a tradition (running joke) and we spend a day researching and planning our new approach, a day baking and testing. Then finally we evaluate (laugh). Dc will have left home by the time we achieve it!

We've set up a craft box at home, something to be used on a rainy day and a distraction from games consoles and tablets

Things like pipe cleaners, tissue paper, brightly coloured paper etc. the children love it and its great for family time

We have a Bero recipe book from many moons ago that we like to use - but of course we have certainly adapted the recipes to us. We love to make butter cookies and flapjacks, banana bread and recently cheesecake.

We also make fat balls for the birds - especially at this time of year

Picking berries/ strawberries and making jams with the children. Something I did as a child

We love making cornflakes and rice crispy cakes, so simple for the kids and so yummy x

We make scones on a weekend for my parents, this weekend was cherry scones though most ended up in my daughters mouth

My Hubby & I recently discovered the joy of making Bread & we have had so much fun introducing the little ones to the many types & flavours.
For example cheese & bacon bread where we cook the bacon (supervised of course), grate the cheese & put it into a pocket inside individual rolls after the proving stage, then wait for them to rise & then bake them...... & finally we all get to eat them

A couple of years ago we decided to let my youngest daughter bring 4 of her friends round from school on the last day that they broke up for the christmas holidays. We got loads of baking stuff in and the girls alongside one of my older daughters made lots of lovely goodies to take back home including fairy cakes and ginger bread men. It was so nice for them as they were already excited at breaking up from school and me collecting them all from school in the snow, so each time they break up for a school holiday now we make it a bake off day with sophie and her 4 friends. They get to take home whatever they make and its nice getting them all together.

A recent favourite has been nutty biscuits or cookies.

My children love to use a mortar and pestle for the nuts or seeds. They are also quite good at bashing a bar of chocolate in a bag, in a tea towel with a rolling pin.
It can be a complete mess and there have been arguments about who has 'done it properly and sensibly'. Did either of them do it properly or sensibly? No. Maybe I should just let them do rice crispy cakes.

we love baking cupcakes and putting different icing on each one - they taste yummy and the kids have fun making them