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Great Family Days In

Over 75 Ideas for Rainy Days, School Holidays and Everything in Between
By Claire Balkind
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Great Family Days In by Claire Balkind is a practical guide filled with 75 fun and creative activities designed to make the most of quality family time at home. Whether the weather keeps you indoors or you’re looking for engaging ways to entertain children during holidays, this book offers a range of ideas from art projects and simple science experiments to screen-free games and mini competitions. Activities are easy to set up, require minimal resources, and can be adapted for different ages and interests, helping families build happy memories without needing elaborate plans or expense.
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This book is ideal for families with children seeking enjoyable and stress-free ways to spend time together indoors. It caters to parents and carers who want accessible, creative ideas for home-based activities that are suitable for various ages and can fit different timeframes, from quick fixes to longer projects.

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Ideas, activities and crafts for making staying in the new going out.

Ideas, activities and crafts for making staying in the new going out.

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Family days in are the new family days out.

Wet weekend? Home for half-term? Great Family Days In has got you covered with 75 tried and tested activities that make the most of spending quality time together.

From Achievable Art and Whizzy Easy Science to Screen-Free Game Time, chapters are organised to help you easily find inspiration for activities that will fill your day with fun. Whether you're creating your very own melted-crayon masterpiece or blizzard bottle, or conducting your first FamFest or mini Olympics, Great Family Days In is a one-stop shop for ideas, showing that you don't need fancy plans or money to keep your family entertained at home.

These beautifully illustrated activities do not require any specific skills or hard-to-get resources. From thirty-minute time-fillers to ideas to last the whole afternoon, activities can easily be adapted to suit any age, interest, or timescale, making it easy to enjoy and relax into the process of creating and building memories together, whatever the outcome.

Claire Balkind, founder of the hugely popular Family Lockdown Tips & Ideas Facebook page, shares fuss-free games, crafts, challenges and more that will keep children and adults of all ages entertained.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529055528

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 October 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bluebird

Audience: General / adult, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 534g

Pages: 224

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Activity Books and Kits Arts and Crafts Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Claire Balkind Cooking & Food Drawing, Colouring and Painting Books for Kids Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Claire Balkind is a History Teacher and has worked in education since 2007. In March 2020, she set up the Facebook group 'Family Lockdown Tips & Ideas' which has an online community of over a million members worldwide. In June 2020, she was awarded the Prime Minister's Points of Light award, which recognises outstanding UK volunteers making a change in their community, for her work with the group. She lives in North London with her two daughters, husband and cat, Milo.

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