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

Cooking in general, especially pizza, and scones.

We love baking together, it's so much fun. My dd makes great pizza bases and loves making different shapes to bake with the leftover dough.

Biscuits, my daughter loves the rolling out of dough and cutting them out into different shapes.
She is learning to make pancakes now which is our favourite Sunday breakfast
This week we are going to bake cheese straws.
For special occasions we like to whip up a chocolate cake with all the licking of bowls that goes with it!

I cook and eat. If I make jam tarts than anyone else will be very lucky to taste them as I would tend to eat them within a couple of days. It's not good for my diet but it's great for my happiness! :-)

My DS who is 12 loves cooking, but doesn't have a particularly sweet tooth. He enjoys making and rolling pastry, making homemade pizzas and lots of non-baking cooking, particularly anything involving frying! He enjoys weighing and measuring, and I trust him to use a sharp knife and he is actually very helpful in the kitchen. He chops onions better than I do!

My DD who is 7 loves baking and has a very sweet tooth! She most enjoys icing and decorating cakes and eating the results. She also likes turning the stand mixer on and off....endlessly. I make banana loaf often (always seem to have leftover bananas!) and she enjoys helping with that too.

Ah ...how frustrating. I typed a big long post and lost it. We love to cook and all the children get involved. It is a great activity for teaching them about textures, hygiene, smells, flavours, health and safety, sharing and teamwork...not to mention actually cooking itself! We love to bake flapjack and we always use Flora not butter. We make a different sort every week and the children take it in turns to choose. They have little chef outfits which they wear as well- cute!

When we aren't baking the bigger ones love crafting and drawing and my toddler loves to hoover!

They are very creative and love to make up shows and perform them as well - very entertaining.

I love to bake with my 2 bigger DSes (DS3 is only 11 months so not quite big enough to help yet). We have tried a few things over time, but our favourite is banana cake - it uses up 'old' bananas & eggs from our hens, it is delicious & it has fruit in which I hope makes it healthy Their favourite part of baking is always licking the spoon & bowl clean, though!

We also enjoy doing little craft projects - so an old polystyrene box that came as part of a parcel was turned into a pirate's treasure chest & a roll of wallpaper became the sea to sail their toy boats on.

My boys also enjoy playing in their playroom (with DS3 in his playpen for a while so that the bigger 2 can play with fiddly toys without having them eaten!). They enjoy playing with cars in there, as well as Happyland, their toy kitchen, their rocking horse & much more. We have just repainted it to make it a bit more attractive - hopefully!

I (once!) made cake pops for the kids which DS1 helped coat with chocolate. He's since told his after-school childminder that he helped make lollipop and now keeps coming home with biscuits on sticks from her house. I can only hope she doesn't mind the repetitive baking!

Torches are the new entertainment in our house. Father Christmas brought both boys (2 & 4) mini torches in their stockings and they love drawing the curtains and using them inside.

My two DC love to help with baking. Gingerbread or cinnamon biscuits are probably their favourite to make as they can get involved in the mixing and cutting choosing their favourite shapes. They then get the extra fun of decorating them.

Junk modelling and painting their creations is probably their favourite non-baking activity.

Making gingerbread men, cookies and muffins are firm favourites in our house, but just as popular is cutting up old magazines and sticking things and making big picture, My boys quite like making rooms inside old shoe boxes using cut up old argos catalogues

Simple baking. No oven as mine is dodgy.

Clear kitchen table and just craft.

My children have developed a love of anything brightly coloured , thankfully none of them react to e numbers , we all love making cakes , buns and biscuits ... but most of the times the boys have now become like the friends of the Little Red Hen .... not as eager to do all the work but will happily eat all of the results .... here is a photo of our style of creations , a brightly coloured rainbow cake ... Luckily my DD and I still make the effort , a great family time together ....

my son and i love making and decorating cake pops! I had some new baking equipment for christmas so my son and i have been putting them to good use over the past few weeks! x

We enjoy making simple rice crispy cakes; use up uneaten chocolate, melt it and add margarine and a bit of golden syrup add the rice crisps and the kids stir it all up and put it in cases. A couple of hours in the fridge (if they don't eat it all) and they set nicely. yummy.
Play dough is always a favourite, and can be used for older children in a more educational way, for example make body organs!

Swimming is a big thing for the family. To have fun and confidence in the water. I love baking and I think it rubs off on the Kids, they suggest baking as an activity. They love eating the results as much as I do! Cup cakes are a favourite because of all the different variations of flavours and of course there is the ever popular, and messy, decorating of the little cakes!

I like making flapjacks, cupcakes and biscuits. We also love getting messy with craft items, making pretty sparkly pictures and models out of toilet roll tubes etc

we love to bake little cupcakes and then take ages decorating them

Love baking fairy cakes from my mums old recipe book, its quite old now from 1970/80s that the most used pages are starting to fall out:( but they are fall proof recipes :)

My DDs and I love baking! At the moment making and decorating 3D cookies (we got some giraffe and dinosaur ones for Christmas!) is the favourite thing to do. We also like making cupcakes and comedy face bread rolls!

*i meant we got giraffe & dinosaur 3D cookie cutters!

We love baking cupcakes but also gingerbread cookies. Keeps the kids occupied and they learn to be creative.

we make shortbread

Our favourite baking is making our own pizzas. It's like 3 different activities in one....making the base, rolling it out and then putting toppings on, and ofcourse eating it!

We love to bake Chocolate cake what better why the beat this cold weather than Chocolate cake

We love to bake Mince Pies or Scones during the winter months and as they're dads favourites they go down really well.
I also play Minecraft with both my boys, I say play, I'm more of a hindrance haha. They don't care though as they love sharing the time with me together.