How to Keep Kids Occupied During Vacations
During school vacations and even at other times it can sometimes be hard to find enough things to do to keep the kids occupied.
With the rising levels of obesity it is a good idea not to let kids just sit in front of the television all day or for hours at a time rather than actually getting up and doing something.
It will also help in many other ways to get children to do other activities.
For example to improve hand-eye co-ordination, inspire creative thought processes and to bring out hidden artistic talent, there are many things you can do with your children.
So here are a few ideas to keep the children busy:
Make sure you have a few things handy around the house like glue, card, felt, buttons, glitter and anything else that can come in handy to have some fun with.
If the kids are a bit older then maybe they could also do some supervised woodworking projects.
It really is good that children do something other than watching tv so be prepared with spare materials and your imagination and try as much as possible to get involved with them while they are doing the projects.
With the rising levels of obesity it is a good idea not to let kids just sit in front of the television all day or for hours at a time rather than actually getting up and doing something.
It will also help in many other ways to get children to do other activities.
For example to improve hand-eye co-ordination, inspire creative thought processes and to bring out hidden artistic talent, there are many things you can do with your children.
So here are a few ideas to keep the children busy:
- If you can get them out and about how about going for a bike ride
- To get creative try out a painting project - get some cheap canvases and some poster paint and see what they can come up with.
Try giving them a theme to think about like "the Beach" or "Animals" - Create a flag using glue and glitter - you can paint on the glue for each colour and then pour glitter on to get the different colors in the flag.
- Make a giant O's and X's game for the garden
- Make a pom-pom with some leftover wool and a cardboard circle.
- Plant out some vegetables in the garden for them to look after and grow
- Decorate hard boiled eggs by painting them for Easter
- Make gift cards by cutting out shapes from colored card and sticking them on white card
- Go out and play ball with them in the park
- Make hand puppets out of old socks
- Make paper mache masks by using blown up balloons for a mold.
Use newspaper and wallpaper glue for the paper mache and then paint the masks - Make cookies with them
Make sure you have a few things handy around the house like glue, card, felt, buttons, glitter and anything else that can come in handy to have some fun with.
If the kids are a bit older then maybe they could also do some supervised woodworking projects.
It really is good that children do something other than watching tv so be prepared with spare materials and your imagination and try as much as possible to get involved with them while they are doing the projects.
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