Mothers in Swansea find most time to play with children

Top 10 cities:

Women with children in the Welsh seaside city manage to squeeze in five hours and 44 minutes a week playing with their youngsters

Mothers in Brighton were the second most 'hands on' at five hours and five minutes of play every week

In third place was Edinburgh, where mums spend 4 hours and 50 minutes playing each week, according to the survey of 2,000 mothers for Fairy

The study also found that the most popular creative play activities were: painting pictures, making masks, hand/finger puppets, hat/helmet-making and creating rockets

Catherine Fairchild, spokeswoman for Fairy, said: "This demonstrates that mums still love to get involved in creative play with their kids and use their imaginations to create things out of everyday items, such as old packaging, with a whopping eighty-five percent saying that would like to encourage their kids to be even more creative."

It also emerged 62 per cent of mums stash away old packaging for the kids to use and nearly a third said they would be helping the kids to make something creative out of old washing up bottles and other items over the Easter break. Want to find out more about hand washing for kids ?

The poll also showed that 49 per cent mums enjoy making things with their kids so much that they often create homemade presents or cards for friends and family members

Top 10 cities:

1. Swansea - 5 hours 44 minutes

2. Brighton - 5 hours 5 minutes

3. Edinburgh - 4 hours 50 minutes

4. Chelmsford - 4 hours 38 minutes

5. Portsmouth - 4 hours 31 minutes

6. Cardiff - 4 hours 28 minutes

7. Norwich - 4 hours 7 minutes

8. Gloucester - 4 hours 5 minutes

9. Cambridge - 3 hours 50 minutes

10. Liverpool - 3 hours 44 minutes