A fantastic idea that every family can try...

We have a lovely yellow Mr Owl money box, and we put our own ‘wishes’ of what we would like to do as a family on small pieces of paper (10 each). We fold them up and post them in the money box. We then pick one of the folded up pieces of paper out of Mr Owl with someone's wish on and then we do it as a family. Ideas need not cost a lot of money.

We have ideas such as: play board games or cards; walk in the woods; visit an airport to watch planes; go for a bike ride; cook cakes for each other; go to the beach; rock pooling; hunt crabs; collect special shells or pebbles; have a picnic at the local lake or beauty spot; challenge each other to a Wii game or similar; decorate a stone each; paint or draw together; do exercises together, e.g. sit ups, press ups, balancing, stretching, etc; play Twister; play blow football, etc, etc. This is a regular activity and we take turns picking out the next wish from Mr Owl.

Sue, Near Halstead