Woohoo!! Pancake Day is right in the middle of the half term holidays!! Make it last the whole day with our child friendly pancake day activities – take a look at some ideas here and then cook up a storm whether they be savoury or sweet … or maybe both!!!
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world —there are probably some near you right now. Download the free Official Geocaching app to your phone and start finding.
You can find out more about Geocaching in Wakefield here
It’s a bit cold to be camping out at this time of year so why don’t you camp in! Set the kids to creating a den or tent indoors. Use the dining room table or the backs of the sofa to create the tent and away you go!
You could also have a little Hygge time too – take a look here for some ideas
Check out our February Half-Term Boredom Buster for the national days happening over the week and have a go at enjoying a themed day!
You can download a PDF version here
Mix up your daily exercise with a Strava map art walk: all you need is the Strava map app on your phone and the kid’s imaginations! It’s a great way to get the kids engaged in a walk and running around creating their masterpieces.
With no home school to be getting up for the kids can have a bit of a later night, wrap up warm, take some hot drinks and take a night walk to go stargazing, we love the free app Star Tracker so we can tell which stars and planets we are looking at!
I am a huge fan of kids festivals (bit biased as I work at them too!) and there are so many things we can do to create the festival vibes at home! Get the face paints and fancy dress on, see above for some camping ideas, decorate the garden with bunting and lights if you have them and then watch highlights of your favourite festivals online! You can catch most festivals on YouTube, or take a look at the BBC iplayer for some great Glastonbury highlights! Big Fish Little Fish do weekly Sunday Kitchen raves, we loved their session at the Camp Bestival Stay at Home Sleepover last Easter!
You could also hire a hot tub or bouncy castle as a treat for the kids for the garden to give a real festival feel!
As there has been no Olympics this year why not create your own? Pick a country to represent, dress up in their colours, create your own competition numbers and start your competition!
You could try one of the below events
You could buy cheap medals online to present to the winners!
During lockdown 1.0, Covid-19 rock snakes popped up in every village and town! and this has continued with lots more being hidden in communities!
We love finding painted rocks and hiding them in a new location! We’re going to have a go at painting some this half term too!!
You can spend the whole week in Disneyland, a day trip to London or even a virtual trip to the National Coal Mining Museum. The Vlog of the cute baby animals at Temple Newsam is one of our favourites! For lots more ideas of virtual day trips visit our dedicated blog here.
When I heard about the idea of a virtual cookalong from our friends at Ryedale Mumbler I thought it sounded a great idea! My daughter and her friends are really into cooking and before lockdown, they had planned a bake sale which sadly we had to postpone. The idea with the virtual cookalong is you all make the same recipes linked via zoom – (e.g. quiche and a pudding, we have some recipe ideas here) then you zoom again (or stay on) for the kids to eat together. A great way for the kids to see friends! you could also create a theme for the cookalong and dress up if you fancy!
Another idea I heard from a friend is a zoom sleepover! This might be one for the older kids but apparently, they all zoom and play games, listen to music, get ready for bed, have a virtual midnight feast and then go to sleep!!!! Anyone else tried this?!
For more inspiration of things to do over February Half Term click here.