How do you bring a smile to a grandchilds face.

Show them pictures of Daddy when he was a little boy!

They particularly like the one of him at about 2 in a heatwave by the paddling pool, clad in nothing but a pair of beloved red wellies🤷‍♀️

That one always goes down well with kids, mine always liked The House That Jack Built, but you need a good memory😂
Another good one is The Twelve Days Of Christmas.

Tell her that most of her family and cousins will be at her 18th birthday dinner on Saturday they don't all get together often anymore.🎂🥂🎁🎉🎊

Actually, any corny joke goes down well with them,I save the ones from crackers for them.
A bit of chocolate usually brings a smile as well.😄

Oreo last year I took my granddaughter an Easter egg that I found well after the event, I think I must have bought too many for my minded children and there was one left over. (Still in date though).

She was so excited she couldn't speak!! 😃

tanith - that’s true. My oldest grandson will be 21 next month and I’m trying to get all 16 of us together!!!!🎂🎉🎈

Ask them if they want to have tea at GM and GF’s house tomorrow. My GD was ecstatic when I asked her this question earlier today! ❤️

To make grandchildren giggle - we turn on video of 1960s dancing/ rock and roll, we all rock out, sing and dance around.

V3ra awww🥰
Isn’t it lovely that little things please young ones so much?
I remember being over the moon if mum brought me a comic home and some sweets.

Spike Milligans. Ning Nang Nong always does it for mine.

Mine love Guinea Pig olympics on you tube or silly dancing. They like rude noises too! They are still small though.

Any of Nick Cope's CD's if we're in the car, especially The Baby's Done a Pooh for my GD. (and The Pirate's Breakfast for me.)

Gdcs are coming at the weekend. I had 6 leftover chocolate Christmas tree decorations, so I’ve hung them in a huge houseplant - more of a mini tree really - that still has lights on.

It won’t take them long to find them, upon which I’ll say - with my best ‘oh dear’ face, that I don’t think it’s allowed to eat them now - they’ll have to wait until next Christmas.

That should raise a big smile - they’ll soon realise that Granny is pulling their legs - just for a change.
They’ll have to eat their dinners first though!

Ask Alexa to play the Laughing Policeman

Play Lego with him. Or rather, let him tell me what to make out of Lego, so he can tell me how I've done it all wrong.

Erm...anything bum related, within reason. Tummy raspberries.

Chocolate - and my cats

Blowing up a balloon and letting it go without tying it up. Letting him have three biscuits when Mummy is not here. She only let's him have two Also, anything to do with bottoms. He's four.

Playing the Beatles Hello Goodbye in the car and all singing along.

I have boxes of toys books etc that I change every week when they come to ours there is always something new to play with.
They love new toys or games and the toys that are too familiar go to charity.

When we go to their house I help them with their school readers. They laugh out loud when I am telling them a story and I change my voice like a character in the book.

Yes,hubbie noticed GS makes up the rules on every game to suit himself.Devious little wotsit!

Love all your ideas,thanks for replying. I'm in two minds about Alexa.H loves telling her to play Crazy Frog song which we join in with but last week he told her to fart and she went on to suggest every different sound a bottom can make.Of course he thought it was hysterical.

Playing this game has them rolling on the floor laughing. Even better, it was $3 in the charity shop🤣

My youngest GD told me the other day that Daddy's house was 'a mess'. When I pointed out that mine was much worse, she said, 'No your house is 'creative'! She loves making things out of the cardboard, paper, plastic containers etc that I save and I always have glue, sellotape, scissors and paint. Unfortunately I also find it hard to throw her 'creations' away! The other grandchildren also tend to leave things here because they know they will not get binned!