What's your favourite activity to do with your grandchild?

Putting on shows. I'm the script reader, they are the actors/animals.

Lots of the above until quite recently when they've really taken to the cinema. Dgd (9) is becoming quite the film critic and envoys the after-film discussions as much as the film itself.
A few months ago we saw the new Jungle Book. She'd never seen the 'old' version so I borrowed the DVD. She declared that she thought the new version was much better as she didn't like the silly marching elephants. "Elephants should be dignified!"
We've watched 'Lion King' together so I'll be interested to hear her verdict tomorrow when we see the latest one!
Dgs is happy to tag along but doesn't get so involved. Both enjoy the festivals of short films staged a couple of times a year at the local centre for contemporary arts.
Also, both are museum fans and are keen to get back to the V&A!

I'm surprised no-one has said "handing him or her back" !

Seriously though, I love any outing with them, especially taking them to places they haven't been to with their parents.

I'm also a great believer in getting children used to going for long walks with the promise of a treat at the end.

Usually my grandchildren visit us, several time a year, they are cousins aged between 5-9 and often come together. We structure their days - indoor activities - I have a big dressing up box which contains all kinds of fun hats, clothes and accessories, they adore dressing up and concotte all kinds of costumes; cooking and baking and making perfumes from flowers and herbs in the garden. Playing cards; drawing at the kitchen table; beach walks - looking for shells and stones; country walks especially with activities ie hurdles,climbing frames etc; looking at wildlife and taking home finds. The cousins all love watching films together as a treat. Also they love nothing more than going to a restaurant or ice cream parlour, we do this once or twice.

Spending time in the garden with a mini watering can, looking at the butterflies and bees on all my plants, feeding the birds and seeing them feed their babies.

1. Finding tiny crabs in pools on the beach
2. Reading
3. Making immaginative crafty things

JenniferEccles
I never want to hand my grandchildren back, just as I never wanted my own boys to go back to school after their holidays. We had such fun, they were (and are) wonderful company and I loved them all to pieces.

Bradfordlass

I always loved the school holidays, lots of happy memories.

My DGCs are mostly all grown up and at work but when they where younger they loved camping with their grandpa,they would pack up on Friday after school and go off to Horseshoe Pass and camp in the old Abbey grounds until Sunday late afternoons we never saw them during the summer they where always off somewhere exploring.
Now I only have my GGD aged 3yrs 6mths and she likes to go to our local Park to see the fairy woods and then visit the little tea shop for juice and a cup-cake the other two are just over 1yr so are only just walking so next year we will be busy I think.

Just talking to them,

I find my DGC an endless source of interesting offbeat, and informative conversations. My 9 year old,DGS's knowledge of animals, from germs to pachyderms probably rivals David Attenborough's at the same age. while DGD (12) has inherited the dry Yorkshire wit of her other grandma and a wide view of the world.

I have long given up expecting mine to hobnob with me. They are all young adults and I can occasionally learn their ideas and activities from facebook, and from their fathers One granddaughter's work has inspired me to investigate the liminal experience in art and has helped me with related ideas.

glammanana that sounds lovely.

Cuddling up in bed reading books or pretend play with fake food and puppets.

Jigsaws and Fortnite with the older ones. Story time with the little ones.

Jigsaws - even if half the pieces are missing when they go back in the box !

Cuddling with youngest DGD when she creeps into my bed in the night. Telling her I love her and she answers, 'I love you too,' in her sleep.

Playing on floor with giant train track with large selection of Thomas trains and accessories. He is so sweet he says Nanny you can have this Thomas to play with..

I’ve introduced my grandson to stamp collecting. He is an avid bird watcher so decided to collect stamps with birds on them. He brings them over and we use the internet to identify the ones we don’t know and he is cataloguing them in a stock book for the moment as he finds sticking them in albums tiresome. Other than that, we mostly cook and play board games with our grand children.

We've just discovered LOOK 4 A BOOK
The idea is that you hunt out books that you've finished with, place them in a bag with a note and hide them. My grandchildren love hiding books and taking photos to leave on our local Facebook group as clues. They have found new books too. It was a race to read them and go out to hide them again!
An almost free way to encourage reading and exercise.

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