Trying To Make The Most Of The Summer Hols

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

It was brought to my attention that I might be giving readers of this humble blog the wrong impression. I might be giving you the impression that I am an organised, creative, motivated Mummy, ready and raring to go each morning with an activity-filled plan for the day. No, I'm sorry, I'm really not one of those. I have a very vague plan for the entire summer (which is a little something like this: finish Juz 'Amma properly and start Juz Tabaarak, get through as many English books as possible, read, swim, skate, make things, have fun ...). Things are a little up in the air for us at the moment, so it looks as though we're having a Jeddah summer. To get through a day without "What shall I do? I'm bored!" (times 10) and "Why can't we go anywhere for the summer!" (times 5) would be wishful thinking! So, I try to slot in one activity a day for the kids that involves the outdoors (Who said the balcony doesn't count?). We also try and do one creative activity (Of course colouring in is a great back-up for that). I don't blog about everything that we do or else I'd be blogging about the trip to the local Bagaala (little grocery shop) to get ice lollies and the little races we have to tidy up the home!

Having said all of this(!), a couple of days ago we took a trip to Stationery Fantasy. The kids had been there on a school trip and have wanted to go back with their cousins. So we did.

Stationery Fantasy is two floors of shop and two floors of fun for children. They also have a water park next to the building. But we stuck to dry section this time!


For the chilidren, they have attended rooms with a glass wall (not really window!) for parents to observe from, while they partake in their chosen activity.

The activities include: fun in the sand, soap-making, cooking and other crafts. On the top floor they have more physical activities, like a type of pedal-karting and ball-shooting gallery among a couple of others.

I had a traipse around the place while the little people were busy and my Bub was taken care of by his daddy. The stationery shop was a lot smaller than I'd expected and focused more on gift wraps, tags and ribbons. The bigger shop was one for houseware and gift items and on the first floor, there was a full on furniture shop that children were not allowed in!



Back on the child-friendly floors, we got some snacks at the cafeteria while groups of partying children were guided from one activity to another. They had a few of these party rooms where mothers sat and chatted.

My favourites for the afternoon were the mosaics on the floors, walls and everywhere!