Hugo (Entertainment In Video £19.99) 127 mins Set in Gare Montparnasse in Paris, Hugo tells the story of a young orphan, the eponymous Hugo, left to fend for himself after his father’s death (with a short cameo by Jude Law). To honour his father’s memory, Hugo uses all his ingenu...

Mirror Mirror (PG)Snow white movies are a bit like buses. You wait ages for one, and then two come along at once, but while Snow White And The Huntsman, starring Twilight starlet Kristen Stewart as the eponymous heroine, promises to be a darkly Gothic affair, Mirror Mirror looks ...

Simple but effective, children will love creating this high-flying rocket. It can shoot up to five metres into the air, so it’s best to make use it outdoors and stand back before blast off; you may also want to provide safety glasses

1. Children can bring the beauty of a winter snow flurry indoors minus the slushy carpets by making a pretty homemade snowglobe. Take an old, cleaned jam jar and remove the top, then trim a piece of cork to the width of a pound coin and superglue

will be tickled by the five-bedroom House In The Clouds in Thorpeness, Suffolk. Built as a folly in the Twenties, the house resembles a tall tower with a red-brick cottage perched on the top, which from a distance looks like it is lodged in the trees. Prices

Tell us about your family…. I am very privileged to have three lovely children – Maija seven, Elise 22 months and Emilio five months. 

Do your children ever feature in your shoots?Maija has featured in a lot of my pictures –  the best one probably

with American Adventures. On this activity-filled trip you explore unique landscapes in Zion, Bryce and Grand Canyon National Park. In Zion, you can hire bikes and visit the ghost town where Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid was filmed, hike to the Emerald

Children can see top West End shows for free as part of this year’s fabulous festival organised by the Society of London Theatre. During Kids Week, a child aged between 5 and 16 can go free when accompanied by an adult paying full price. You can

Assumption, they say, is the mother of mess-up. Oh, and what a fool was I to assume that on a long-haul flight with a duration of 11 hours there would be back-of-the-seat in-flight entertainment to keep a five-year-old amused. Instead, there was one

. Extend your stay The stunning five-star Stapleford Park country house hotel is less than 30 miles away from the festival site, and is family-friendly. Activities available include falconry and horse riding, as well as outdoor games like croquet. The spa