An answer to the "I'm bored!" holiday child

Children are amazing - on the one hand, they can keep themselves occupied in the strangest games, on the other they can be bored, listless, unenthusiastic and bereft of ideas. Particularly during the holidays. Here is one solution that worked last Bank Holiday Weekend.

We had been on an outing the day before, the evening's discussion on what or where to go next had come up with no helpful ideas or solution. My daughter knew she wanted to do something - but just couldn't come up with anything that inspired her.

I was pretty desperate by the next day.
"Good Morning, have you had any idea by now what you would like to do?"
"No!" was the answer.
"In that case, this is what we are going to do.
"We are going to take a maximum of five Lego figures and a camera - and photograph their adventure exploring Milton Country Park!"

To my utter astonishment, barely had the words left my mouth, and my daughter had dashed upstairs, found the dusty Lego box and was excitedly choosing which Lego figures to take along.

We spent over two hours wandering through Milton Country Park. We aroused strange looks and passing children would wonder "Dad, ist that a Lego man? It is a Lego man!" And their parents would hurriedly rush their children by to avoid the deranged people we were.

The full adventure story of Lego Family's Day Out in Milton Country Park" can be found in the slideshow below. If you cannot see it, go to the album at https://picasaweb.google.com/107595387761034666575/LegoFamilySDayOutInMiltonCountryPark



And if you are wondering which age groups this might work with - my daughter's 23! (And I enjoyed it too).