How do you keep your children entertained during the festive holidays? Share with NOW TV - chance to win £300 NOW CLOSED

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The couple of weeks (or so) holiday from school at Christmas time can be a long slog once the ‘big day’ is out of the way, especially if the weather is not very kind.

NOW TV would love to know your top tips on keeping the children entertained during the winter school break - do you brave the sales, snuggle up for a movie afternoon, encourage long wintery walks or dig deep and go to soft play? How about some baking or crafts? What about older children? Do you limit device time or allow them some extra time with their tablets? When do you get any holiday homework done? What do your children like doing in the Christmas holidays?

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Baking, crafting, games, a grotto visit, a nice walk followed by hot chocolate and great Christmas movies!

Stick some upbeat festive tunes on, me and my daughter have a good dance, she can be dancing for up to an hour, is good excercise too great when the weather is not so great!

Visits to the park followed by fav films.

Take them to laserquest. We all run around; they get tired, I get fit; win, win.

Very hard to drag them away from the TV but try to get out on adventure walks - does us all good

My son loves 'horrible histories' so I expect it will be lots of that and then going to see family and friends so that he can burn off loads of energy playing with his cousins or friends. Failing that you can't beat popcorn and the quilt snuggled up watching elf or another Christmas movie

We watch christmassy films or do some baking

Over the xmas holidays we definitely make more of an effort to spend time by watching xmassy films and snuggling up with lots of treats

I try to get them to do some baking but it's hard to get them off their electronic devices now that they are older. They do still enjoy a game of football though

Holiday homework asap so that you can have lots of fun! Pick a movie each per day so that you can all have some tv time and above all stop bickering with trying to maintain some routine.

We try to go out as much as possible. Having a zoo membership helps a great deal

lots of festive crafts

Let them decorate plain biscuits with tubes of icing, they love it

we have a family movie each evening, crafts and baking during daytime and I also allow some extra tablet time

Snow is a godsend for keeping the little ones entertained even though it makes travel a nightmare. Some time on the sledges, building snowmen and a wee snowball fight is always good.

In the house, doing the decorations, baking christmas goodies and watching christmas films all help.

Wrap up and go for walks - snow an added bonus
Watch some classic films together
Play lots of board games together as a family

We go long walks with the dog. Sledging and building a snowman if we get snow. Lazy mornings and movie days. We also love the time to play all the new games that Santa brought.

We try to get outside and spread out activities with staying in :)

An activity advent calendar, with baking, craft, going to the beach, watching favourite film, choose what you like days.

lots of visiting family and friends

Walks, we have a park literally at the bottom of our road, and will be exploring there again, I get them in the kitchen baking, and then we will use up all the bits of all wrapping paper to do craft projects, if after that, they still want something to do, they can help with the housework!

Keeping warm, makeing decorations and we do love a panto.

Nothing better than a wintry walk followed by hot chocolate and a family film!

The Christmas holidays for us are about being together, my husband is in the Forces and so away a lot, if he is back for Christmas it’s a very cherished time and we really don’t need a lot to make us all (3 girls and 2 adults) happy. We like to cook, play board games, go for walks and enjoy wine (hot chocolate for the kiddies) and snuggle at night!

Crafts and Activity books... Oh, and a cheeky film time to time :)