Tell npower your top tips and ideas for enjoying the summer school holidays - you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED

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The team at npower would love to hear about your top tips and ideas for enjoying the summer holidays.

npower say "We know that the summer holidays can often be stressful and finding activities to keep your children busy can be a challenge so we’d love to hear your hints and tips for a fun-filled stress-free summer. We can’t wait to hear your great creative ideas for getting through those 6 weeks come rain or shine."

With 6 weeks or more off in the summer, finding ways to keep your DCs entertained can sometimes be a challenge. So, what are your top tips for planning summer holiday activities? Do you like to do some research and advanced planning? Or do you prefer to be spontaneous? Does the weather affect your plans at all? What top tips do you have for having fun whatever the weather?

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MNHQ

Find out about workshops at museums and galleries and have some educational fun!

Cinemas, arts and crafts, farm trips, joining sports clubs, and of course, holidays!

I think a mix of actively doing things and just "being a bit bored" is nice.

We do trips to the beach, museums, cinema, puppet theatre, etc. but also let the kids get on with things. They might moan at first but then mostly come up with the most amazing games, building space ships with every available chair and old car seats or building all kinds of dens.

We also try and do a little bit of reading/writing/counting. They love that though, so it's no hardship.

We try to plan a mix of low cost and more expensive things. I always check the calendar of events published by the local council before the holidays start, to use that as a starting point.

Tesco boost vouchers get used a lot for meals out, cinema trips etc.

I love spending time with the little ones but have struggled with entertaining them as everything costs so much money. We recently joined the National trust and you can now pay monthly so for £8 a month for a family you can go to any of their properties which are always great just for running about. We also do lots & lots of geocaching

Do lots of research in the winter months of free and/or cheap days out, these could include the beach, local parks where you can have a picnic, feed the ducks etc. ££ doesn't equal fun.

Go to the park and walk in the woods.