of people in the ring, more than one person can be chosen to sneak in at the same time. You can decide how often you change over the guardian. This fun idea is taken from I Love My World by Chris Holland (Wholeland, £15.95). The book is packed full of hands

the egss for a feast.This fun idea is taken from I Love My World by Chris Holland (Wholeland, £15.95). The book is packed full of hands-on nature activities. Try out another idea from the book... The Sneaking Circle

this.What were your favourite games and toys as a child? I was obsessed with mermaids and fairies. I was such a girly girl. I didn't own a pair of jeans until I hit my teens! I loved to draw and was always making things. I wouldn't describe myself

of the library and looking at art with your child is wonderful.  I remember when I was a boy, my family went into hiding during the Second World War – we lived in a house near a remote lake in North Holland, and we had to hide whenever German search parties came

!Thandie Newton: Admittedly, I don't remember watching many Disney films as a kid, it's a world I've come to enjoy as an adult, almost MORE than my two children! My favourite has got to be The Princess and the Frog - Raymond the glowbug cracks me up every

of Northumberland where my husband grew up. The distances are vast so you have to drive a long way to meet up with friends: luckily my own children are quite self sufficient. As little things they liked to create their own worlds - the best and most loved present I

Atlas (my mum tells me it won a Junior Design Award!). He's an explorer and an adventurer – I like the sound of that. I also loved the Horrible Histories talk because, well, I'm a boy and I love gruesome, grisly things. Did feel a bit sad about the World

. It was a valuable learning curve and that’s why I wanted to do it. That’s why I love my job. One day, I can create a perfume bottle and the next I can be working on a kids’ anorak. It’s very eclectic and exciting. For me, the main thing was to introduce a

roast dinner, you structure your day around that. I love cooking for the family at home. There’s two types of cookery in our house: there’s my wife Jane’s cookery and there’s my cookery. My cookery is the same at home, as it is at work. So if I’m making

doing something we loved, and doing it together. Does it get any better than that?I was 18 before I learnt to ski, and my only "real" lessons were on a hill covered in hessian matting on the outskirts of High Wycombe. My daughter has skied every year