Stacey Solomon reveals the free activity she gets her kids doing daily during half term – it keeps them busy for hours
KEEPING kids entertained during the school holidays can be tough - but Stacey Solomon revealed she has a trick up her sleeve.
The mum-of-five revealed that her children love one free activity that keeps them busy for hours.
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Stacey Solomon revealed how she keeps her kids busy during half term
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The Loose Women star shared how her kids spend ages gardening
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The TV star often shares behind the scenes pictures and clips from their family life
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Stacey took to Instagram and shared how her kids are following in her footsteps in doing gardening at their £1.2million Pickle Cottage.
Sharing a photo of three of her kids, she wrote: 'Happy Sunday from the gardening club.
'The bug is catching on.
'Every morning they want to get straight out into the garden with me. I love it!'
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The Loose Women star, 35, also shared how she has been spending the bank holiday painting an adorable bee hive for the garden, and she also has a vegetable patch.
In a recent clip on Instagram, she told fans: "Ages ago I was like, 'I'm going to get bees'.
"But I thought I'm not getting bees unless I really study it properly and learn everything about it.
"So I found this incredible lady called Helen who does beekeeping courses, there's a theory and a practical.
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"I booked myself in for the course. Teddy got really sick and I said to the lady, 'my dog's not very well, I can't leave him for too long, can we do some of the course at my house?'
"And she said 'we can do the theory at your house then you can come and do the practical where I've got my hive'."
Stacey Solomon reveals ANOTHER new addition to Pickle Cottage
But Stacey explained that, while at Pickle Cottage, her plumber Mark told them he'd just driven past a hive of bees, adding: "Helen was like, 'let's go get them, that could be your colony'."
Despite Stacey's protests that she "wasn't ready", Helen pushed on and they went to collect the bees to bring them back to Pickle Cottage.
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Stacey then proudly showed off the hive, adding: "I have my very own Pickle Cottage bee hive and it's the best thing ever."
Other animals who call the property home include four ducks - Daisy, Delilah, Daphne and Delphine - and dogs Teddy and Peanut.
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Stacey showed that a recent home project was her painted bee hive
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The TV Star recently left fans stunned when she took to social media to rant after her BBC show Sort Your Life Out didn't win a gong at the ceremony.
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The presenter didn't hold back in an emotional video shared to Instagram, in which she confessed to being heartbroken that her team missed out.
The series, which began airing in 2021, had been shortlisted in the Factual Entertainment category but ultimately lost to Rob and Rylan's Grand Tour.
Although Stacey offered congratulations to Rylan Clark and Rob Rinder, she made it clear how disappointed she felt.
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Stacey recently shared how she was gutted about not winning a Bafta
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She told her followers: 'We didn't win a Bafta. And I know I'm supposed to take it gracefully like a champ but, I'll be honest, I'm devastated!
'I'm not handling it very well, I'm not taking it very gracefully - I'm devastated! I'm devastated for our whole team, like I'm so gutted for our team.'
After her TV Bafta rant, insiders told how Stacey was "upset" and didn't want to come across as "ungrateful".
A source told OK! Magazine: "The negative comments really upset her, she takes them to heart, she never wants to be seen as ungrateful, because she's not.
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"She's a really hard worker and gives her all to everything, so it's devastating when it doesn't pay off, and it understandably makes her worry."
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