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Collaborative Doodle Drawings and a Sleep In for Me

Posted on October 4, 2013 13 Comments

collaborative doodle drawing - a quick and easy activity

I didn’t want to get up the other morning.

I knew I wasn’t going to want to get up when I dragged myself to bed at around 1am. So Night-owl Me did Morning Me a favour and left this set up for my kids…

collaborative doodle drawing - a quick and easy activity

A huge, communal, doodle picture to colour and add to.

I taped to bits of paper together and used a sharpie to draw random squiggles and scribbles. Then I dumped a variety of markers on the table and added a post it note that said ‘colour’.

collaborative doodle drawing - a quick and easy activity

It’s such a simple idea and something all four kids can do together without killing each other.

This, combined with a huge bucket of Lego at the other end of the table and a few post it note suggestions of what else they could do and a request to help Noah get some breakfast bought me a good hour’s extra dozing before I had to drag myself out of bed, and lasted until we packed it up for lunch.

collaborative doodle drawing - a quick and easy activity

Man I love school holiday sleep ins!

How do you buy yourself a few extra minutes in bed on the holidays?

 


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  1. alana says

    Thats awesome! Sleep ins are the best

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  2. Marla k says

    WOW. That is absolute genius!

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  3. Bek {Just For Daisy} says

    Yay! Go you! :)

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  4. Lauren Burke says

    Umm abc2 after 7am and squeezed yoghurts !!!

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    • katepickle says

      Abc 2 saved my bacon when I was pregnant with my middle child and had 3 year old twins… ah the good old days, at the moment the four of them fight over the TV so it’s not as magic as it once was!

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  5. Meredith @ Homegrown Friends says

    I love this! Will try this weekend!

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  6. Ann @My Nearest and Dearest says

    So smart! And yay for the sleep in!

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  7. PlanningQueen says

    Love this idea Kate – nice one!

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  8. [email protected] says

    What a magical treat to get a sleep in! Love the doodle idea…looks like they all had so much fun and even better that they could all do it at once.

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  9. Kate - An Everyday Story says

    My little girl tends to sleep until about 7 which is lovely. Buuut my little boy gets up waaaaaay too early so I am always trying to think of things to keep him engaged and quiet in the mornings. He will LOVE this. I’m going to set one out tomorrow morning and see how he likes it.

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  10. Jenna Michelle Pink says

    Oh this is a great idea. I need to give this a try :)

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