The Christmas break is just about here and that means kids at home with way too much time on their hands. It also means visits away, to theme parks and different cities and what not, so how do you make sure the little ones are safe?

One answer is to make sure you can be contacted should they get lost, or an emergency arise. Personalised Handbands for the family mean you can put contact details on a handband and if your little one goes astray you can be contacted immediately. Check out the Handbands website to see how to we can help keep your family safe.

At the same time, the website shows you how to have fun with wristbands and keychains, dog tags and more that you can print on, hand out for free at events and keep your voluntary organisation's name in front of people for weeks and months on end.

Some holiday ideas:

1.Take on a family fitness 8 week challenge. Make it a daily habit to get up and out early over the next eight weeks and keep the kids active - and you fit and healthy too. The bonus is it's a great, subtle way to lose a little bit of the winter weight and gets everybody - including dad, active at the same time.

2. Decorate the tree with home made decorations. get the children involved in creating their own tree angels, gnomes, whatever. Papier mache is the way to go and all the instructions are here.

3. Make sure you set up the Parental Control settings on all your devices and computers. If the children are at home a lot, the first thing to do is make sure all activity takes place in a high traffic area so you can monitor what's happening. Second thing is set up simple controls. The 'how to' is here.

Do you need to identify club members at a big event? Then consider the new Tyvek single use handbands. Print them with whatever you like, they wrap around and stick on a person's wrist, they're weather-proof and won't tear.