{"id":433,"date":"2021-02-06T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T07:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/06\/10-fun-ways-to-entertain-kids-over-half-term\/"},"modified":"2021-02-06T08:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T07:11:02","slug":"10-fun-ways-to-entertain-kids-over-half-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/06\/10-fun-ways-to-entertain-kids-over-half-term\/","title":{"rendered":"10 fun ways to entertain kids over half-term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Escape that Groundhog day feeling by trying out our creative tips on cooking, crafting, \u2018camping\u2019, and chucking stuff at Dad<\/p>\n<p>Christmas, Easter, Bonfire Night and Halloween \u2013 the events that usually punctuate our year \u2013 haven\u2019t felt sufficient in the pandemic, so in my family we\u2019ve gone all out for occasions that would usually pass us by. Cultural appropriation maybe, but it has livened up Groundhog Day dinner times. We had a <strong>Di<\/strong><strong>wali<\/strong> party in November, taking advice from an Indian friend on how to do it right, and cooked pakoras, wore new(ish) clothes, played games and covered the kitchen with fairy lights. For <strong>Burns Night<\/strong> my four-year-old helped make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamieoliver.com\/recipes\/fruit-recipes\/frozen-cranberry-cranachan\/\" title=\"\">frozen cranachan<\/a>, we ate haggis, played a bagpipe Spotify playlist and recited poems, including a welcome address penned by my seven-year-old, whose lines included: \u201cI don\u2019t know why but my dad is wearing a skirt \u2026\u201d (In lieu of a kilt, a peach silk number had to suffice.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2021\/feb\/06\/10-fun-ways-to-entertain-kids-half-term-cooking-crafting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/039ab74ecd8b8d078b553e15c017f1dde48e1ed1\/0_413_6191_3715\/master\/6191.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8b38fdedeef43c9642ef95c5debbb436\" title=\"10 fun ways to entertain kids over half-term\" \/>Escape that Groundhog day feeling by trying out our creative tips on cooking, crafting, \u2018camping\u2019, and chucking stuff at Dad<br \/>\nChristmas, Easter, Bonfire Night and Halloween \u2013 the events that usually punctuate our year \u2013 haven\u2019t felt sufficient in the pandemic, so in my family we\u2019ve gone all out for occasions that would usually pass us by. Cultural appropriation maybe, but it has livened up Groundhog Day dinner times. We had a Diwali party in November, taking advice from an Indian friend on how to do it right, and cooked pakoras, wore new(ish) clothes, played games and covered the kitchen with fairy lights. For Burns Night my four-year-old helped make frozen cranachan, we ate haggis, played a bagpipe Spotify playlist and recited poems, including a welcome address penned by my seven-year-old, whose lines included: \u201cI don\u2019t know why but my dad is wearing a skirt \u2026\u201d (In lieu of a kilt, a peach silk number had to suffice.) Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escape that Groundhog day feeling by trying out our creative tips on cooking, crafting, \u2018camping\u2019, and chucking stuff at Dad Christmas, Easter, Bonfire Night and Halloween \u2013 the events that usually punctuate our year \u2013 haven\u2019t felt sufficient in the pandemic, so in my family we\u2019ve gone all out for occasions that would usually pass &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/06\/10-fun-ways-to-entertain-kids-over-half-term\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 fun ways to entertain kids over half-term<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}