The Easter holidays are nearly here and it’s time for everyone who has to look after children to think
about how to entertain them while school’s out. Kelly Apter enlists the help of a few friends, young and not
so young, to Check out the best of what’s on offer.
re you old enough to remember that
great kids~ programme. Why Don't You
(just .s'n'itelt riff-your television set and go and do .S'Unlt’f/Ing else less boring instead)? That TV classic was great because it understood just how frustrated and downright bored children can get during the holidays. But what does that have to do with the average List reader. you may be asking. Well. even if you've decided not to become a parent. and to spend
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most of your time living the life of a lounge lizard in dodgy bars and seedy pool halls. there will probably come a time when you have to look after nephews. nieces. godchildren or even — never say never — your own progeny. Actually. it‘s not so much that kids pose an entertainment challenge: in fact it is perfectly possible to drive to an industrial estate on the edge of town and park them in one of those soft play centres full of sweat-soaked bouncy castles. But if you
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really value your own free time and fancy doing something that both you and the kids will genuinely enjoy. then it‘s going to be necessary to look a bit harder. To help you in your search for pint-sized nirvana. The List has put together a cornucopia of brilliant days out: the kind of things we think you‘ll enjoy just as much as the children do. Hell. you might even find yourself phoning your mates and offering to look after their kids again next weekend.