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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Whatever your tip or best advice for other parents, add it below and you will be entered into a prize draw where one person will win a £300 voucher for the store of choice - from a list.

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Theater and cinema, lots of TV!

Always get them involved in arts and crafts at xmas time, easy passed onto friends and family as presents

We do a variety of activities together.
We make dough and and then mould into shapes and bake it hard and then paint.
We gather natural objects and make monsters with them.
We go swimming regularly and come home to have hot chocolate and ‘chill’ with a hot chocolate watching tv.

We make cakes, decorate a gingerbread house and other arts and crafts, they play on the computer, watch a film together and we go out for walks in the park with friends.

A couple of nice longwalks every day - good for releasing excess energy for both the dog and the kids, then at home lots of craft stuff as they both love painting and making things, baking and then some afternoons snugggle up on the sofa and watch a film.

lots of crafts and baking

Welly boots on and get them out in the woods collecting things
Then bring them back and make some sticky pictures... paint pinecones etc.

we love doing baking, going on forest walks, snuggling up with christmas films and popcorn and wintery family football games followed by hot chocolate!

cheap christmas craft from bargain shops, movies, we are lucky to be near a zoo and have membership so can always go there, also my son loves bird watching so walk in the woods etc

Country walks, crafts, board games, movies, visiting family and friends, and make sure the kids get their homework done before Christmas Day so it is out of the way and they can enjoy the holiday

I love playing board games with the family, doing things together wether that be a walk or a king etc

Plenty of kids movies on the TV Box (Frozen, Cinderella etc)

Definitely Olaf's Frozen Adventure

My trick is to wear them out so that they are tired. We do soft play and board games. In between Christmas and New Year the kids are too busy playing with their new toys.

Pantomimes, Christmas films, arts and crafts, invite their friends over!

Lots of arts and crafts which usually involves lots of glitter and sequins. We also love to have family movie time complete with snacks and drinks.

Ohhh and of course playing and setting up all the new toys.

I absolutely love finding christmas films and programmes to watch and even better if they are from my childhood. Snuggling up on the sofa cuddling my children and watching them is just bliss

We bake.

I fill a crafts box throughout the year to give on the 1st december - that's keeping my son busy this year but we are only on the 3rd!

We tend to the movies at our local shopping outlet complex, go for walks along the beach all snuggly wrapped up, bake cupcakes and muffins at home and just generally get cosy on the sofa and watch telly.

We are fans of movie afternoons wrapped in throws on the sofa with hot chocolate

We have all the days on and off - some snuggle days and some homework days xx

The house is usually full of visitors and relatives which keep them entertained

There's lot on the TV so some nice films do fill in the afternoon. If the weather is dry then it's lots of walks to get some fresh air as well.

Walks, crafts and we usually visit a few of the local museums.