Toy Batteries Gone Flat? 4 Fab Things To Do With The Kids This Post Christmas Weekend Christmas Entertainment Inspiration!

1. A Day At The Museum

London museums open their doors again this weekend, and at the Science Museum there's a fab exhibition on the birth of the space age. Great for any budding cosmonauts.
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/coming_soon/cosmonauts.aspx

DIY option: Build yourself a bubble-powered rocket fuelled by indigestion tablets (yes, really).
www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/A_Blast_Off.html

2. Everyone's A Fruit & Nutcase

Make a budding ballerina's dream come true with a performance of The Nutcracker by the English National Ballet.
www.ballet.org.uk

DIY option: You can book ballet dance shows from Alive Network, with a prima ballerina teaching your child and her friends a ballet class, hair and makeup techniques and even giving a private performance. Move over Angelina mouse!

3. Ski Sunday

If, for you, a skiing holiday is as much about the apres-ski as the slopes and wet stuff, it's probably just as well this week. The European ski resorts are suffering from a lack of the white stuff, and you might spend more time perfecting your kids entertaining skills rather than your downhill! So, save a chalet-load of cash and take the kids to an indoor snow centre like SnowDome in Tamworth (www.snowdome.co.uk - other domes are available!), where they can toboggan, snowboard and freestyle to their heart's content.

DIY option: Hold a ski party! For inside parties, hire a Wii console and giant screen to project Alpine sport adventures including ski jumping and slalom on. For outside events, hire an ice rink and snowboard simulator, and even a snow machine if budget will allow. And, of course, you'll need suitable music - a Snow Patrol tribute band perhaps?!

4. Christmas Circus

Circus is definitely cool this year, and there are some excellent circus shows on offer this year. Circus Normadie includes an international cast of trapeze, clowns, jugglers, aerialists, acrobats and the only miniature horse drawn parade in the world. (www.chessingtongardencentre.co.uk) Check your local area for other circuses on tour.

DIY option: If you think circus is impressive from the cheap seats in a tent, it's utterly astounding close up! Hire an aerialist from Alive Network, and all you'll need is a high enough ceiling for their kit - they'll provide the rest! Elegant, exciting and enjoyable entertainment for parties, promotions and more. Or for more circus for your cash, you can add jugglers, stilt walkers and fire and glow artists on the same Alive Network booking!