Ideas for entertaining 9 yr old grandson

We did some cooking: tomato, onion and cheese flaky pastry whirls; but the most fun was quite unexpectedly, using my walker to zip down the slope to the drive!

Make Pom poms with a Pom Pom maker
all my grandchildren liked that.
Make marble runs out of tubes
Build the biggest Lego tower you can
Sticker books great fun
Maze and puzzle books
Keep balloon in air without letting it touch the ground
Hide things around the house to be found
Hope you both have fun

Salt dough. Dry very thoroughly. Paint and decorate.
Plaster of Paris. Clean out all your kitchen cupboards and drawers. Old photos. Write up a story of your life and illustrate. Music - jazz, classical, etc as many types as possible using utube. Kim’s game. BBC catch-up has some great film by Gordon Buchanan of raising and releasing brown bears in Russia, very educational and inspiring with more energy than other similar programmes. By the time he helps cook, eat and wash up every day too, the time is going to fly by.

My gs will kick a ball back and forth for hours, or we kick it into a bucket in turns, he loves cooking especially enjoying making his own pizza, scones and Rocky Road. We always do a bit of pond dipping, we play Bagatelle, 20 Questions, do jigsaws, paint, draw, model with home made play doh, leaf printing, do a bit of planting and bug hunting in the summer. table tennis in the garden in the summer,, he also loves watering all my house plants, playing with and sorting my button tin, playing with toy cars and garage (all from charity shop) eating.....he loves a chimpanzees' tea party which is just a selection of goodies laid out on a big plate to choose from, we always settle down for a hour TV in the afternoon with a cuppa and a biscuit. He's adorable.

Oh yes I forgot..... A really BIG cardboard box kept him happy for literally HOURS!!!

I recently did t-shirt printing with my granddaughter and hers looked much better than mine! Buy an inexpensive plain t-shirt and use sandpaper to print on it. It's really easy, check it out on YouTube

Playing clay and building blocks is also a good idea. Children usually tend to do it every time until it's perfectly made. Also, they are very eco friendly, you can find it on Amazon.

A dart board on the garden shed was very popular when my boys were that age . Fun and educational at the same time .

Oh dear - I have just realised that this is a ZOMBIE thread ( as they say on Mumsnet)

My grandchildren love making up a story. One of them begins with "once upon a time" and maybe continues with a prince, a little boy or even a zombie. After one or two sentences, the next one has to take over and so on and so on. The stories become increasingly bizarre and there is much laughter and many attempts to get them back on track. This game has occupied at least an hour each time we play it.

What does that mean?

What does what mean? I suspect that is a question to NotAGran55 rather than to me. Yes, what the hell is a ZOMBIE thread?

Doesn't it just mean an out of date thread that has been resurrected ?

It means a thread which is old but you can still add to it and therefore, living but dead !!

Although actually, it's not dead at all and I'm grateful for all your ideas and will certainly try the sandpaper printing onto t-shirt idea.

So keep the ideas coming please....