#Grabthekids for Half Term week

Dread it and love it, Summer Half Term week is nearly upon us. Between the 31 May and 4 June can sometimes fill fear into the hearts of parents.

Will it rain? Do you need to work? Do you have child-care in place, will the kids been entertained? All questions that keep parents awake at night. To try and help, just a little, is our list of activities available this Half Term week.

A word to the wise

Children's durable ID bracelet

Wandering children is an occupational hazard. Even the most obedient of our little treasures can decide at a moments notice that there is something infinitely more interesting to do away from your immediate side.

So before you book your time away it’s worth making sure that you order some ID bracelets. Simply Stick has an excellent range of simple and durable children’s ID bracelets, which you can personalise. “If lost please call…” is usually enough.

The ID bracelet has room for up to 20 characters including spaces for the mobile number. The ID bracelet pack priced at £9.00 contains 10 stickers, 10 wrist bands and the stickers can be printed as pink or blue text on a white background.

Children’s centres across the UK

This Daily Telegraph article contains six of the best children’s centres across the UK. Try and pick the one that seems most relevant to the type of child you have. The Daily Telegraph

The Woodland Trust

What about some fresh air. The Woodland Trust website a an excellent search tool for find woodlands for you to explore in your area.

City walking tours

These are provided gratis by some cities: Bath, for example, offers free two-hour general tours each day, and a Jane Austen audio tour that you can freely download on to an MP3 player; see  Visit Bath website.

London

It’s easy to have a good day out in London as they is so much to do. Not accessible to everyone, but if you live close up it’s well worth the effort. There are a few resources to help you here.

Visit London website

The Evenings Standard newspaper

The weather’s terrible

If you are stuck inside this summer ½ term you could consider sprucing up the children’s bedroom.

The key to get this right is to understand what interests you child. There are lots of great themes available from Simply Stick

Toy soliders

Toy Soldier Stickers

The new toy soldier stickers are available from Simply Stick and come flat packed in A4 sheets in a cellophane bag toy. The soldier stickers are pre-saved in assorted poses and children can stick them in a scrap book, diaries or on the wall. You can inject a bit of nostalgia into your child’s room and set up a combat force army in two different colours and let them get creative.

There are 12 soldiers per set with an average height of 8cm. The available soldier set colours include Black, Army Green, Grey and – wait for it – even Pink!

The Soldier set is priced at £10.00 and also includes 2 flags.

Designer Letter Wall Stickers

Designer Letter Wall Stickers

Let your children be creative with Simply Sticks designer letters. The removable and repositionable letter stickers are 15cm in height in Arial style font and available in a range of bright designs for easy and fun decoration. They can be used to make a fashion statement in a bedroom or playroom or to personalise a door or toy box.

The letters are purchased individually and you can enjoy mixing and matching the different patterns – design styles include girl camouflage, boy camouflage, flowers, stars, stripes, stars n’ stripes and union jack.

You will be dazzled by the results!

The On the Road sticker pack is perfect for boys who love to get creative and construct their own traffic scene. Boys are best at building the road sections, laying out the straight, curved and zebra crossing components until they are happy with the results.

The vehicles including bus, pickup truck, bicycle and delivery van can then be added to complete the scene. The peelable scene stickers include 15 road section repositionable stickers and 6 cars, with straight road sections measuring 28cm x 8.3cm. The ‘On the road’ theme stickers are supplied on 6 x A4 sheets and priced at £20.00.

Educational Wall Borders

Educational Wall Borders

A new style of extra long Educational Wall Borders that are ideal for bedrooms, playrooms and classrooms.

Designed to be easily stuck to any wall, these borders can be wiped clean and repositioned if you need to.

Available in a range of graphics including Alphabet Border, Rain Forest and Frog Border, Big Bug Border (a persoanl favourite with our kids!) and Henry the Eighth and his six wives.

These 3-5m borders look absolutely fantastic when they are up.

Alternatively, you could cook up some wacky experiments at home care of the Planet Science website. Fun for under and over 11’s there are loads of activities to keep them amused for at least a few hours.

Whatever your choice of sticker Simply Stick has a wide variety of stick that will suit most needs.

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Boys are Best

10% Off

Our children acquire a lot of toys when they are young and finding space to store them can be a challenge. We have two boys and we still have their train set, cars and toy soldiers in storage boxes – you quickly run out of room and clearing up their toys can be a chore. Simply Stick have come up with a special promotion ‘Boys are Best’ to keep boys entertained, whilst saving on storage and freeing up mum and dad from tidy up duties afterwards – fun for all ages.

On the road

On the road

The On the Road sticker pack is perfect for boys who love to get creative and construct their own traffic scene. Boys are best at building the road sections, laying out the straight, curved and zebra crossing components until they are happy with the results.

The vehicles including bus, pickup truck, bicycle and delivery van can then be added to complete the scene. The peelable scene stickers include 15 road section repositionable stickers and 6 cars, with straight road sections measuring 28cm x 8.3cm. The ‘On the road’ theme stickers are supplied on 6 x A4 sheets and priced at £20.00.

Toy soldiers

Toy solider stickers

The new toy soldier stickers are pre-saved in assorted poses and children can stick them in a scrap book, skirting board or on the wall. You can inject a bit of action interest into your child’s room and set up a combat force army in two different colours and let them get creative.

There are 12 soldiers per set with an average height of 8cm and 2 flags. The available soldier set colours include Black, Army Green, Grey and – wait for it – even Pink! The Soldier set comes flat packed in A4 sheets and priced at £10.00.

Wheelie bin cricket

Wheelie Bin Cricket Stumps

The cricket season has started and with the warmer weather the boys are spending more time in the garden after school. To save sticking cricket stumps on the grass you can buy the Wheelie bin cricket sticker, simply peel off the 70cm high sticker and apply it to your refuse bin and get bowling!

The Wheelie bin cricket set comes rolled in a 20cm length tube and includes a blackboard sticker scoreboard with a vinyl gloss texture (permanent sticker) measuring 21cm x 30cm and chalk.

You can select from five colours black, red, white, green and pink and the set is priced at £15.

All the above stickers are sure to generate lively discussions about what goes where and Dads are bound to love them too.

10% Discount

Simply Stick are offering a special discount on the above stickers when ordered online or over the phone on 01264 350788. To receive a 10% reduction on the unit price all you need to do is enter the code ‘bab’ (short for boys are best!) at the checkout. Please note the discount does not apply to postage and packaging costs. Your order will be sent out first class, and will usually be with you within 3-5 working days, subject to availability.

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