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Spare clothes….. check.

Presents…. check

The poinsettia (which will NOT fall over in the car)…. check

Something to stop the kids from killing each other and pulling on your last nerve… thanks to Fly Thomas Cook, check!

Whether you are jetting away to see family and friends this year or are facing several car journeys whilst doing the rounds, the Thomas Cook Kids Club have some great activities and games to keep your little ones occupied.

The Fly Thomas Cook Kids club is an online resource with downloadable and printer-friendly activity sheets to keep children occupied and entertained during travel. Split into 4 sections, Before We Go, At the Airport, On the Plane, and At the Beach this site is packed with dot to dot’s, downloadable travel stories, mazes, colour by numbers and more. There are even memory card games which can help the kids learn another language (everyone should be able to say “ice cream” in more than one language).

And the best part? They are free!

As well as these fantastic sanity saving games and activities, Thomas Cook Fly have included some great easy to read information for the grown ups. There is a section on travelling with pregnant / with a newborn, teaching kids to prepare their own luggage, involving your kids in the holiday destination and more. All great tips which can be adapted for use at home and away.

We are not travelling this year but I’ll be using some of these puzzles to keep my eldest occupied during the lull between Xmas and New Year!

Travel safe all and have a lovely Christmas and New Year!

When Claire from Bottle PR asked for people to do some arty Xmas stuff on fabric I thought “why not?”. I like messy arty stuff, Kieran adores it. A few days later these 3D fabric paints arrived in the post:

HUGE panic, I don’t have an iron, I’ll mess it up, I can’t cope well with anything that contains glitter! After Claire talked me down and reassured me that they didn’t need ironing and would just set in about 4hrs, we got to work.

[slideshow id=11] When I say “we”, I mean Kieran, aka Mr Independent. At 5yrs he was more than capable of designing his own Xmas tshirt and had a fantastic time doing it.

The end result….

It has indeed set overnight and has been great fun. I would say though that avoiding huge blobs is the better idea as otherwise it takes much longer to “set”.

There is plenty left over and we are going to hunt out some more from this range, which is available at John Lewis and Hobbycraft, because there is no end to the projects we can do, festive and otherwise. Kieran wants to get some plain fabric bags to decorate and put some home-made biscuits in for his Aunt’s, another lovely Christmas idea.

Great fun and a new way for Kieran to create, I can see us doing many more projects involving Dylon in the future and look forward to playing with the other items in their art & craft range.

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FREE downloadable travel activities for children

3D Fabric Paints from Dylon