busy house where her mother did the cooking, Mary was inspired to find her vocation by a wonderful home economics teacher and still recalls with pride coming home from school with her first treacle syrup pudding. “My father loved it,” she says, proving

, Usborne Publishing, £6.99.Cooking With Kids by Linda Collister, Ryland Peters & Small, £10.49.Crafting With Kids by Catherine Woram,  Ryland Peters & Small, £14.99. Creative Child by Dorothy Einon, Hamlyn, £14.99.Creepy Creatures by Julie Sharp,  GMC Books

garden. You’ll need a tent, some bedding, seating and food to cook on your fire. If fires aren’t allowed in your area, light a trangia (make sure there is very close adult supervision at all times) and roast marshmallows, flame-grill your (pre-cooked

for the stove, tending the fire, cooking dinner together, and even catching it with a rod and line.Hotels and apartments can't cope with a big family gathering at a reasonable budget and in a relaxed atmosphere. People are increasingly looking to host milestone

cooking classes, and the Children’s Parade will be one of the festival highlights. And if the music and vibe isn’t enough to get you in a chilling zone, there’s even an on-site Womad Spa.Vintage At Goodwood (12–14 August 2011) is one of the newest kids

apples, pears, berries, unsalted nuts and seeds. Try smearing pine cones with peanut butter and using them as the snowman’s coat buttons, or putting pieces of cooked fat or suet in a net bag and hanging it from the snowman’s arm, as if he’s holding it

in the NME Awards) headlines, with former Razorlight member Andy Burrows and SixNationState also on the bill. For the kids Katy Ashworth from CBeebies’ I Can Cook will be performing songs and storytelling, alongside lots of family arts and crafts