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Quote: Originally posted by Angela77 on 06/2/2009That looks really interesting surfspud. Sorry if I sound thick but what do you do with it exactly?

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Thanks very much for all the suggestions certainly given me some ideas??  Love the FIND IT by the way!

Elaine x

We have 2 boys aged 4 and 11 (so 3 and 10 lat year when we went to France).  I know this goes against the whole camping thing but we got them a portable DVD player for in the car (very long journey) and that was a godsend one story evening.  They both sat and watching a film (with headphones) til it passed and then were straight back outside playing in the playground area with 20 other kids from various countries.  They spent most of the week there and even if we went out for the day they'd be checking to see if they could get back in time to see their friends. It was lovely as playground was right opposite our pitch so little one could play with the other kids without realising he was being watched like a hawk the entire time and made him feel very grown up.

We also take lots of books and the usual stickers and colouring and a little penny floater football and usually connect 4 (even if little one isn't sure how to play he likes to make patterns with the counters and keeps him entertained).

My two are now 15 and 12, but when they were younger, and even before we went camping, I used to spend the week's leading up to our holiday packing a backpack for each of them.  I would get them maybe a colouring book, a drawing/writing pad, new pens/pencils/colouring pencils, a handheld battery toy, a comic, a new book, etc.  They were not allowed to look in the bag until we were just setting off in the car and it was a big part of our holiday.  They then had stuff to do wherever we were heading and anything they bought themselves while we were there, went in the bag to bring home.  As they got older we still take writing stuff, they now write a diary of the holiday, a new book, comics have become magazines and I sometimes buy them a new DS game, but it still works well for us