14 brilliant ideas to keep your kids happy all summer long
14 brilliant ideas to keep your kids happy all summer long:
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Picture the scene: It’s the school holidays and you have six wonderful weeks stretching out ahead of you. Before it all began, you had it all worked out. Pinterest-fuelled visions of creative crafting sessions, cupcake-baking, bike rides and treasure hunt walks in the woods. Instead, it’s the end of day three and you’ve watched all 8 Harry Potters and the three-year-old has glitter in every orifice. Playing at home is glorious – but let’s face it, spend too long within four walls and it can all go a bit awry. There’s only one solution to survive the summer hols with your sanity (and your house) intact: Take them out. Yes, we know that getting a child under 3 dressed is akin to wrestling an octopus into a carrier bag; your 8-year-old claims he’d rather play Minecraft than set foot outside and the 15-year-old seems to think virtual friends are cooler than real life humans. But once you’ve mustered up the energy to wrestle with clothes, Kindles and recalcitrant teens, you will never regret getting them out of the house. So what to do now you’re out? Here are 14 foolproof ideas to entertain your kids this summer. Better yet, if you have Kids Go Free* promotional packs of Milkybar®, Smarties® and Rowntree’s®, kids go free to hundreds of days out across the UK along with the purchase of a full price adults ticket. 1 Indoor skiing with a difference Prepare to discover indoor skiing revolutionised. If you haven’t heard about Chel-ski yet, you have to check it out on YouTube to believe it. Described as ‘Where London meets the mountains’, it’s effectively a giant treadmill that rotates fast while skiers try out their best moves on the constantly moving slope. It’s the ideal way to hone your existing skills or pick up some new ones and is great for building stamina and muscle memory. And the best news is it is included in the Kids Go Free* promotion. There’s a mirror to help you perfect your technique and a viewing gallery too, so you can watch everyone else stacking it before it’s your turn. Visit chel-ski.co.uk for more information or the handy Kids Go Free* venue finder 2 A Treasure hunt If you are struggling to coax the kids out the door, a treasure hunt always works (well, almost always). Just give them each a list with items on it – a forked stick, a feather, a red leaf – and they zoom out to get hunting. Take that to the next level with Huntfun’s professional treasure hunts held outside at landmarks and locations across the country. There are 200+ locations to choose from, all outdoors (and included in the Kids Go Free* promotion) and all getting little eyes to open up to things they might not have noticed before. So much fun for all ages and fresh air and exercise while you’re at it. Visit huntfun.co.uk/bogof for more information. 3 Tower of London With a Royal Wedding just having happened kids will be hyper aware of the princess and princess of the realm. Make the most of their newfound enthusiasm, and the fact that it is
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The Great Gildersleeve: The Grand Opening / Leila Returns / Gildy the Opera Star
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.