GREAT BOOKS FOR ACTIVITIES365 Activities You And Your Toddler Will Love by Dr Roni Cohen Leiderman and Dr Wendy Masi, Bonnier Books, £7.99.Art Attack Great Stuff by Neil Buchanan, Dorling Kindersley, £9.99.Big Book Of Things To Do by R Gibson

as carpeting and roofing. Organisations such as the Forestry Commission (www.forestry.gov.uk) even organise den-building events. Structures may collapse, however lovingly built, so watch out for toddlers hiding inside. 5. Get conker bonkers

1. Throw an afternoon tea party  A tiny table, a pot of lukewarm ‘tea’, cups, saucers, serviettes and spoons and your toddler will be acting like the perfect lady of the house... Encourage her to ‘pour the tea’ and ‘add the sugar’. Offer plenty

suite of music is great for toddlers – have them dance in the style of the animals that appear in each of the 14 movements; there are tortoises, elephants, kangaroos, as well as fossils and pianists – imagine how they walk!7. Pillow fight Pull out

with drawings, photographs, musings, poems and dried flowers – anything that reminds you of each and every day. Even toddlers can have a holiday diary – although you will have to help them quite a bit."Give your child a big board of cardboard then show him how

festival fashion and Hunter wellies are still de rigueur, as well as the must-have Peltor Kid ear defenders – a la the Apple of Gwynnie’s eye – for your toddler. Make a weekend of it and, if you feel like getting down and dirty, you can pitch