Activities to Do with Your Child Over Summer Break
It’s that time of the year when teachers bid farewell to students hoping that their previous students do not forget what they have learned over the past year. Parents are also left with the responsibility of keeping their children both mentally and physically engaged. As students break for the summer, parents can be left with a dilemma of how to engage children so that their summers aren’t wasted. Parents can make summers more meaningful for their kids. Here are some activities to fight summer boredom:
- Help children print out their own summer calendars and allow them to fill in the days and decorate them. Or allow them to make their own using rulers, markers, stickers, etc.
- Cook with your children! Teach them with step-by-step lessons and recipes. Try out recipes from a particular era in history i.e. from the colonial days, Civil War, the 1960s, etc.
- Go on a walk and teach them about the properties of light and facts about the sun. Complement this with night time strolls and observing celestial stars and the moon. You can discuss retrograde motion and other aspects of astronomy.
- Make ice cream in a bag! The process makes simple ice cream in 5 minutes and can be quite enjoyable. Print a grid of dots from Connect the Dots and invite your children to make original tessellations
- Plan a family activity day. Let your child research activities to do during the day and allow them to allocate a budget for it. Take lots of pictures from your camera and create a scrapbook with it.
- Take a virtual Campus tour with your high school student. Tour the grounds, view videos and photos and request information on the institutions.
- Start a book club in your neighborhood with your neighborhood kids by reading the same book and arranging meetings to discuss the books.
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