Kept my 3 year old neice occupied for a couple of hours with a Sainsburys bubble machine and a small raised bed of her own to destroy. She still wanted to dig the potatoes up though...
I think my parents had the best idea, they just gave me and my sister a box of matches and a pile of wood and let us get on with it. We made bonfires and boiled up the spoils of the compost heap and threw them at passersby, and cooked our Sindy dolls three course meals. And the joy of finding a box of mothballs in Granddads shed that sent a 10 foot flame into the air, setting fire to the washing line.
Havent changed much :D
