The summer holidays can be great times to bond with your children and develop their faith. Here’s how…

Things to try this summer - Keeping your children busy in the summer holidays

It’s summer, so here’s some ideas of some ways to have fun together:

Library books – let’s start with some free stuff - most libraries do a reading challenge over the summer, so pop in and sign up and have fun reading some new books! Once you get home, make snack and drinks and declare a Book Hour.

Do a game swap – meet up with another family (or two) and have a games afternoon then where you each learn a new game, then swap games.

Open ended play – instead of buying expensive kits buy items which can be used for all sorts of things. I make a small kit of this to go on holiday, trying to ……