Spending time with your kids is great and summer vacation is the perfect opportunity to relax and leave the stress of school behind. Keeping your kids entertained can be tough, especially for an extended period like summer vacation. However, with the right planning, your kids won’t get bored and you won’t have to break the bank. Here are 8 ways to entertain kids during summer vacation.
Baking with Kids
Baking is the perfect way to connect with your kids and teach them new skills. How do you make baking fun for kids? First of all, you don’t have to be a star baker. You can create wonderful baked goods with your kids with little effort. There are many easy recipes for things like oatmeal cookies and tasty cakes that are ideal for beginners.
Your kids may need some help, but cookie recipes are usually a safe bet. Just be sure to supervise them when they put them in the oven!
Playing Board Games
In a world where online gaming has become the norm, it’s easy to forget about more traditional games. Board games can bring you together as a family, get you thinking and teach your kids many important lessons. Board games like Scrabble are both educational and fun. They teach children to use their brains, manage frustration and work with others.
Kids can find Scrabble tough, so why not try a Scrabble cheat? It’s an excellent way for children to learn to play Scrabble and find unfamiliar words more easily.
Picnic with the kids
Every kid loves a picnic. You don’t even need to leave your home to have one if you have outdoor space. Make some sandwiches and snacks and you have a picnic! Kids just love to eat outside, you don’t have to go to too much effort to please them!
If you live near a park or other recreational area, take your picnic along for a low-cost day out. Kids are imaginative, so even if you don’t have access to outdoor space, a blanket on the floor inside your house can do the job!
Camping at Home
Whether you love or hate camping, chances are your children will love it. Your yard and your home make the perfect campsites. All you need is a tent and an imagination. Camping in your yard is a lot of fun, but a tent indoors is just as fun. Although a campfire in the house is probably not a good idea!
Wherever you decide to camp, read stories, sing songs and enjoy some quality time with your kids. Indoors or outdoors, it’ll sure be a time to remember.
Gardening with Kids
Gardening is both educational and fun. Teaching your kids about plants and nature is a fulfilling way to spend time together. Kids love to dig and explore, so give them exciting jobs to do and let them play with child-friendly gardening tools. Gardening maintenance tasks you’ve been putting off could also be handled by the kiddos.
You may have a lot of outdoor space that could benefit from a vegetable patch. A vegetable patch is a good way to teach your kids about how food grows and the time it takes to grow it.
If you have got little outdoor space, then planting some seeds can be lots of fun. You can also grow indoors with plant seeds of your choice, some potting soil and plant pots.
Kids Movie Night
A movie night is a simple way to keep your kids entertained. If you’ve got a streaming subscription, there are loads of movies added regularly. This means you don’t need to spend out again to find something to watch.
Grab some snacks, drinks and let your kids have a treat. Snuggle up under blankets and let the kids fall asleep in front of the movie!
Hiking with Kids
If you want to get out of the house and enjoy the great outdoors, take the kids on a hike. Although a hike may not be the first choice of activity for your kids, it’s easy to make it fun for them. Choose a trail with lots of interesting sights, nature and animals. Some trails will have activities along with them for kids to do, others will require you to create your own.
You can create your own treasure hunt activity based on any hike you choose. Research the route beforehand and find landmarks your kids will need to find before they get the “treasure” at the end. Take some candy along and discreetly place it behind the last landmark for the kids to find!
Adjust the trail difficulty and distance to the weather conditions and your child’s age and ability (and yours too!).
Crafting with Kids
Crafts are brilliant for kids if you want to engage their creative minds. There are lots of craft ideas to try out with your kids online. If you’ve got several children, why not turn it into a competition? Remember to reward them equally for their efforts if you want to avoid tears!
There are hundreds of ways to entertain your kids during summer vacation. It will take some planning, but with minimal effort and financial burden you can keep them engaged until the school bells ring again.
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