School holidays... beating the bordom

These all sound great for your younger one, but maybe a bit childish for the older one?

clothes pimping and jewlery making are probably chool, but i don't know about treasure hunts and kitchen crystles.

in the same vain, but a bit more grown up, see if you can find some scrap metal or wood and have him make you some outdoor furnature?

otherwise, simplify. You say he's academic? go to the library and get a couple of good books? dean koontz and stephen king or something... have friends over to play video games and muck around in the back yard, using aforementiond scap metal and wood and build a forte or something... or piles of dirt to make bike tracks (depending on how much room you've got)

ben-ja-men that sounds like a really fun idea i shall look into it.

polarity as ever you confuse me with with your techy stuff(yes even with links to it) i am going to blame the lack of coffee

Seb really good idea, there is one spot where the 'not so nice children who all look the same' hang out... does anyone have any hand grendaes? i would love them to find them. only joking of cause

Fox its been a while hope your ok. I have tried mentioning books to my oldest as they are doing a reading thing at the librabry. he just gave me the "What are you on about woman" look. although he is very into darren Shan not sure on the spelling. although he likes the idea of the crystal growing stuff.. he's very sciency bless him. He's very into things that don't take alot of effort and he's not even a teeneger yet

shadow puppet shows are the best.
A lamp, a horde of toys or cardboard and a white sheet and you are laughing.

i'm very well!

just tell them to clean their rooms, and they'll go find something to do themselves... that's how my mum always fixed us.

Fox i did that one at the weekend... now their rooms are spotless... ok so it did take a couple of days hehehe

shadow puppets... fantastic idea

they actually cleaned their rooms? woah.

how about origami? did someone already say that..?

Ooh! Ooh! www.craftster.org

what about cooking and baking ? thats always good cos you can eat it at the end!!!

p.s. did anyone say that??

i may have to wait until polarity King of origami comes round, i'm complete rubbish at it.

they could always spend obscene amounts of time on HoP

why not play a game of hide and seak.....................they go and hide for say 6 weeks and then you find them just in time for school

Water fight!

Water Fights at Froggies are really something lol,, you don't just get wet,, you get WET

spoken like a true expert

Yup As i said,, really rather very wet What you can't see though is the equally soggie froggie hehe

Froggie, don't worry, looks like your place is going to be heaps of fun this summer!

Sorry, Froggette, I've been away teaching poi workshops to kids on a campsite

Will start compiling stuff for an email as soon as I've had some sleep

when i was a kid me and mates used to go on loads of cycle rides which was awsome even tho we never really went far hehe.

could always send them to one of my fencing courses hehe giving kids swords is always fun trying to stop them crippling each other is the hard part.

hugs
Spike