We all make cards for each other, I call them 2 minute cards – it has saved us a fortune.

Lynne, Reading

Our family looks forward to Saturday lunch time where we all sit down together and catch up with the week. Sometimes we pretend to be each other and spend the whole mealtime in character. It’s hilarious hearing the things we say coming from someone else. We end the meal by saying three things we love about the person we were impersonating.

Karin, Portsmouth

On a Saturday, my two children and I play a board game, then we snuggle down with our quilts on the couch and watch a family film together. In the winter we use our torches to go to the shop to get sweets to eat. The kids really look forward to our Saturday nights. It’s nice to be doing something all together and it’s not an expensive evening.

Rebecca, Cleethorpes

When my children were little, just before bed, they would snuggle up with me in my bed for a "little chat". We used to take it in turns to list the top five things we'd enjoyed in our day and also, if any, up to five things we didn't like. It's a lovely way of ending the day, and although they're 16 and 14 now, my children still reminisce about our "little chats".

Julie, Whitley Bay

During the warmer weather, we all enjoy donning our wellies, grabbing some nets and wading through the local (very shallow) brook trying to catch some tiddlers. We’re absolutely hopeless at catching anything, but we have such fun trying.

Christine, Haverhill

Recently, we went walking up the Malvern hills. I was worried the kids wouldn't manage the steep climb, but we let them have big chunky sticks to swing around in the wooded areas, and a rope to help pull each other up the steep bits. Then we had a picnic reward at the top! Living in the city, it was wonderful for the children to be out in the huge space of the country, and to watch them have fun climbing rocks, rolling down grass banks and spotting birds - and all for the price of a picnic!

Anna, Birmingham

Before bath time, let the children to go puddle jumping or stand out in the pouring rain – they will love the novelty of being allowed to get muddy and wet!

Tania, Wirral

Doesn't happen too often, but when there's a lightning storm at night, we get the kids up, huddle around a window together and enjoy the natural fireworks! Turns something that is sometimes scary into an exciting, late-night show. Guessing when the next flash will come can add more fun.

Mike, Doncaster

A midnight stroll is especially good fun if it is a really frosty evening or it is snowing. It doesn't have to be midnight just dark and after bedtime or really early in the morning. You see the stars, hear the owls, and hear your feet crunch in the grass. If you choose early morning you might even see the sun rise. We always take a flask of hot juice and something to munch.

Sally, Sheffield