Product Description

At last, a book that gives mums a great excuse to turn off the TV and embark on some good clean fun with the kids, "Things to do with Mum" is brimming over with fantastic fun-packed activities that mums and children can enjoy indoors and out. The perfect gift for all mums who want to share some quality time with their children.This book shows how to: start your own slime factory; have a go at giddy running; make your very own teddy mascot; set sail with orange jelly boats; deck the halls with homemade garlands; have bags of fun with an old pair of jeans; cheer up your china; spook up your salad with avocado ghouls; whip up your own pick 'n' mix sweets; meet Mr Turf Top; and, rustle up a leafy autumn scene.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43371 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

How difficult can it be to play?
The retro-girl's annual style gives us all a yearning for a by-gone family lifestyle that never happened. I glanced at the list of activities and my mother and I had never done a single one! Didn't find the family outing that involved driving to the pub, the kids being given a coke and packet of crisps each to eat in the car while parents got wellied inside and then drove home!

The underlying tone of a woman's role being confined to kitchen experiments and sewing things is a bit hard to swallow too. I haven't seen the Dad's book but I bet he does really cool things like shooting pheasents and taking stones out of horses hooves with a swiss army knife rather than making a bath puff for granny and crowing cress in an egg cup.

Yet the book certainly fulfils a need in our family. Aware that our family tend to enjoy our leisure time solo - one child on the computer, another watching TV, Dad watching the football, me on the lap-top - we decided to introduce a time together. It needn't be expensive, I said, and ten minutes is fine. But we could never think of anything. We'd sit there and say, "how about ...?"
"Nah! It's too ....... "

We have lost the art of talking and doing things with friends, family and relatives.

So this is an answer to a prayer. It includes around 60 activities from the ones like 20 questions you can do walking to school/in the car to start your own slime factory and even make your own miniture garden.

At this stage the kids are skeptical. They'd still rather play World of Warcraft or Call of Duty on the computer. I'll try to update this review to let you know how I get on.