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,
MNHQ

I do enjoy baking with DD, although we tend to always make the same thing...chocolate biscuits. It does make a huge mess of the kitchen though!

Sometimes I make double batches of the mixture to freeze some to make it easier the next time.

We are a family of keen cooks and regularly make cakes, biscuits, puddings and homemade pizzas. Our favourite cakes are carrot, chocolate cola cake (which is lush) and lemon drizzle.

On the healthier side we also do roasted veggies with olive oil, herbs, and garlic, lots of salad with each meal and stir fries. DCs love helping out and are more keen to eat the food that they have helped cooked. Cooking is a great creative activity and hopefully a life skill that they will use in the future.

we love to make our own pizzas followed by yummy shortbread.

artwise we love foam painting!1 so much fun.

cant go wrong with rice crispie cakes!

we love craft activities too!

I love doing theme days with the 3 dcs when we get a chance in the holidays. For example, we'll have a 'pirate day' and start by building our boat, raising the mainsail (a sheet) and establishing roles on board.

Then make hats, and decorate them, so that the captain, first mate, cook and ships boy are clearly marked. Maybe make a parrot as well.

Then we'll make pirate biscuits - bake round shortbread or chocolate biscuits and decorate them to look like pirate faces - and maybe cook a pirate lunch together, which we eat on board our ship.

Followed by some more craft activities, like making a telescope, binoculars, treaure chest etc basically anything that can be made out of egg boxes and kitchen roll tubes

And we play games like 'captains coming' and learn a jig and sea shanty.

Even more fun when they have friends for the day :)

We love doing paper mache, we made an angry bird recently!

Mine love to make cookies - especially double choc chip ones & they also like to make muffins or cup cakes as cup cakes are fun to decorate with icing and sprinkles. When we get baking we tend to make a big batch.

Baking is a big part of our holidays as my mum did a lot of cooking eith me and I'd like our kids to have those memories too. We do all sorts, cakes, biscuits, even tried Boston Baked Beans with our 9 year old. One of our favourite non-baking activities which cost nothing was to squish up a load of polystyrene and pretend it was snow. Yeah, it was messy but it cleaned up pretty quick and we had such a lot of fun making it snow indoors.

My boys love baking, especially cakes and biscuits (although my youngest spends more time licking the spoon that anything else!). My 7 year old is just starting to progess to more intestesting (and helpful) baking and is getting quite good with a piping bag now! Boys love cooking as much as girls :)

We love to make cupcakes, with lots of sparkle and sprinkles x

I have just started my two baking so we are on the jam and treacle tarts at the moment, but they love every minute. So if the weather is not to good this weekend may see if they want to bake some fruit scones.

There's nothing like the feeling of having made it themselves that baking gives children.

If the weather is dry we love going for walks to feed the ducks (if we can find any)

Love to ask what my children ant foe Tea,we then go shopping for the Items and spend time cooking them,grating veg and slyly putting Into the dish when there not looking

My little one is only two and he loves to bake fairy cakes with me, it's so hard for him to understand why they're not ready the instant we put the mixture in the cases though!

We love making scones. Especially when the kiddies have to mix the mixture with their hands. x

We love to bake! Everything we can find although gingerbread and fudge cupcakes are a favourite of ours. We follow Ingreadient but not so much of the rest, we are more let's see what happens if we do this bakers!

We cook together a lot and the kids help with the easy bits of making dinner (they fight over stirring pasta bake together) and bake quite often. I make pizza dough in the bread maker which is pretty much idiot proof and they love creating their own pizzas. They both (3 and 5) know the basic sponge recipe and this is this week's creation - they decorated half each but went a bit crazy with jellybeans.

We make homemade pizza and cupcakes on our bakedays

my two again love breaking eggs and our current favourite easy recipe is a very very quick peanut butter cookie 3 ingredient one.
has eggs to crack- both children happy.
very sticky and sensory mixing- both children happy.
-no flour so grandma gets to eat them as well as both children. everyone happy!

We love making rice crispie cakes, cupcakes, pancakes, and traybakes. If were not baking then me make cards

DS (6) likes making scones the best, although the kitchen is usually covered in flour by the time he is finished. He likes decorating fairy cakes more than making them. He also loves it when I make gingerbread men because he puts the faces on them. He likes to make them into Star Wars characters by giving them icing lightsabers etc.

DD (18 months) is a little young, but we will probably make chocolate rice crispie cakes in the next few months.

I love baking, the only trouble is I have the waistline to prove it!!

All my children love baking, it's hard to know what to pick out but ds sticky date breakfast muffins are a firm favourite.

We still love to get out the board games, scrabble is a hit except that now they are all beating me.

We have decided to take part in this year's Sugar Challenge, though this has proven fairly tricky with our love of baking biscuits. However, we recently found, by halving the amount of sugar the recipe suggests, they still taste just as yummy. In fact, they taste even more buttery.

We are still obsessed with making gingerbread structures.

Be it houses, castles or animals... We have had the bug since Christmas and its showing no signs of stopping.

It's great for groups of children as well and tasty too!

My DD loves to bake bread and cookies from new kids cookbook we had at Xmas. A recent hit was gingerbread cookies - decorated with white piped icing and delicious to boot!

My little boy loves to paint and create collages with glue and pieces of scrap material