This section of the website has ideas for ways to stop them from being bored when at home.

We hope to continually and extensively build upon and regularly add new ideas to this section. Parents are invited to use the feedback form on the Contact us page to share your ideas with us.

The links on the left provide inexpensive activity ideas to engage their interests around the home.

When they're not enrolled in the latest Council holiday activity, their room will most likely hold their interests but they'll also want to take part in other activities going on around the house.

Children's rooms fulfil so many different functions. They sleep and dress there, work and study, read, draw, play, entertain and escape mum when she's cross. And often children have to do all of this in the smallest room of the house (because mum & dad got the big one).

Children should feel that their room is their haven. It does not have to be professionally designed and decorated, but should reflect the child's personality - whether a collector, artist, reader or inventor. It needs to be adaptable and grow with them as the soft toys and colouring in books make room for CD players and student