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We've got some boredom-buster ideas for these Winter holidays!
The school holidays can be long and it can be challenging to come up with activities to keep everyone entertained, especially when it’s wet and cold outside. We’ve come up with some great ways to keep everyone busy, without the hustle and bustle of indoor play centres!
Jump in the kitchen
Make this cob loaf with egg salad for the centre. Kids can get creative with decoration it in the shape of their favourite animal; try a bear like we have, cat, rabbit, lion or dog!
Ingredients
- 8 free-range eggs
- 1 brown onion
- 1 zucchini
- 200g baby spinach
- 3/4 cup sour cream (you can substitute with mayonnaise, natural yoghurt or cream cheese)
- 1 lemon
- chives
- Abhi’s spent grain sour dough (or any round whole loaf of bread)
- veggie stick kit
- 2 nori sheets, hot dog roll for decoration (optional)
Method
- Bring a medium saucepan of water to the boil. Add eggs and cook for 6-7 minutes. Cool under running cold water. Reserve 1 egg for garnish, pell and chop remaining. Add chopped eggs to a large bowl.
- Heat a large frypan over medium-high heat. Dice onion and grate zucchini. Add to pan. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes until onion is softened and transparent.
- Add baby spinach to pan and stir to wilt. Add cooked veggies to bowl with chopped boiled eggs.
- Zest lemon and finely chop chives. Add to bowl along with juice from lemon and sour cream. Stir to combine.
- Set over to 180ºC. Trim top off bread loaf to create a lid (or bear’s face). Remove bread from centre of loaf. Tear apart and toss n a lined oven tray with oil, salt and pepper. Bake for 20 minutes until golden.
- Place base of cob onto a large board. Position top of cob above base forming the bear’s head. Trim hot dog rolls and place under head to form bear’s ears and arms. Wrap arms and ears in nori. Cut shapes from nori to form nose and mouth. Add reserved egg slices for the eyes. Spoon egg mixture into cob base. Slice up veggie stick kit and serve with egg salad cob with toasted bread.
Want to make this at home? We used 12-pack Free-Range Eggs, Veggie Stick Kit and Sour Cream from the Dinner Twist Marketplace.
Frame It!
Head down to your local second hand store and pick up a few picture frames. Print out a few of your favourite family pictures or frame your kids art work that has been sitting in the back of that cupboard (you know the one!).
The kids can use their imagination to decorate the picture frames; if you’ve got a photo their favourite trip to the beach glue on some sea shells or sea glass that they collected, use old buttons for a mosaic look, or simply get enough picture frames and paint each in a different colour for a rainbow affect.
What you need:
- fine-tip markers
- paint and brushes
- scissors
- glue or tape
- decorations
- printed out pictures or kids artwork
Cardboard Craft
Cardboard craft is a really great way for kids to be creative while also considering environmental impact! Kids can create their own animals, houses or towns for their existing toys, rocket ships, the sky’s the limit.
Use this as an opportunity to teach kids that they don’t need new things to have fun; they are use something that would have been recycled and give it a new purpose. Good for you, good for the environment.
What you need:
- old cardboard (food packaging boxes, delivery boxes, cardboard tubes from paper towel or toilet roll)
- paint and brushes
- scissors
- glue or tape
- decorations (you can use things from around your home such as old streamers or ribbons, Christmas decorations, pipe cleaners, pom poms and googly eyes)
