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9. Do some painting

Encourage your kids to be creative and make a bit of mess - break out the paper and paints and cover your table with newspaper before you start to protect it.

Poster paint is probably the best to use to start with. Make sure you have a jar filled with water to hand, so your kids can rinse out their brushes when they swap colours.

And you don't just have to use brushes - try using some different things to make pictures. If you have really young children, finger painting is great fun.

Or why not slice some potatoes in half, cut out faces or other patterns and then dip them in paint and stamp onto paper.

Another idea is to draw faces on a sponge and then cut the features out and use it as a stamp, just like the potato. Great fun!

By Rob Mansfield

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