Here’s a nice easy one for you! This keeps my kids amused for ages (long enough to put your feet up and relax for a while) 

You Will Need: - 

Some Old Magazines

Child friendly scissors

Paper

Glue

1.   First of all have a quick flick through your magazine to make sure it’s suitable for your kids to use (I only say this because my kids did make a rather ‘interesting’ picture from an old Heat magazine once…….I’ll let you use your imagination on that one)

2.   Spread out some newspaper or a plastic sheet (you won’t be able to relax if you are panicking about glue spillages)

3.   Get your child/children to cut out various body parts from various pictures i.e. Peter Andre’s head and Jordan’s…….arms. They can also cut out accessories too.

4.   Encourage them (whilst peering over your coffee cup and without actually moving off the chair) to arrange the pieces on some plain paper. The possibilities are endless here; it’s a human jigsaw of various people’s bodies. My kids always end up in fits of laughter doing this!

5.   Finally, once they are happy with their arrangement they can stick all the bits in place. They will have had loads of fun, you get to relax and they will probably want to do another one. As for tidying up? You just scoop all the sticky gluey bits that are left over up into the newspaper they were working on and jobs a goodun’!

You may even find a budding artist in your family! My eight year old seems to have gone a bit arty with her pic (the big one below), whereas my six year old prefers the ‘churn out as many as you can’ approach!