Are your kids acting bored this summer? Here are some creative ideas to helping your kids beat summer boredom and have a great vacation!
- Plan a summer sleepover! Your kids will enjoy the planning process of creating a great summer sleepover.
- Make Chalk Spray! Collect the Supplies. You will need: a spray bottle, chalk and water. Ground up the chalk into a fine powdery substance. Place it in the spray bottle. Add water to the spray bottle & shake. Now you have chalk spray. Use chalk spray to spray on sidewalk or paper. When the substance dries you have beautiful creations!
- Have a Lemonade Stand! Help your child make kool-aid, set a price, decorate a cardboard box and sell the kool-aid. The processes used to create a lemonade stand are similar to those needed to start a business. By helping your child set up a lemonade stand, you are helping him start his future career!
- Create a Cardboard Box maze! Collect Cardboard boxes (refrigerater boxes and boxes from someone’s move). Tape these boxes together and create a cardboard maze. You can use Christmas tree lights to light up the maze or neon paints & blue lights. After the maze is created, have your kids invite friends to join them and crawl through!
- Create crafts! I especially enjoyed this authors idea for a marblework maze. Check out this Associated Content Producer’s article for great summertime crafts for your kids.
- Put out a bird feeder! You can place a bird feeder near the house and let your kids watch the birds. You can buy a book called “The Audubon Society Field Guide to Birds”. The photos in the book will help your kids identify and study them.
- Do your kids spend a lot of time on the computer each day during the summer? Here is an article I found about some great kids websites. My sister is quite a bit younger than I am and she found the American Girl website to be fantastic. She also likes Neopets.
- Have a Grill Out! Your Kids will love the good food and company you invite to share the meal with you!
- Go to the Beach and play in the sand. It will be a great way for your kids to get some vitamin D (from the sun) and have some fun!
- Create a Craft Box! Collect crayons, pens, paper, construction paper, glue, glitter, markers, and any other items (milk caps, buttons, and miscellaneous) and put them in a large bucket. This new bucket will be a container for your kids to dig in, explore and create! It is a great bucket for a ton of summertime fun!
- Write stories together! Encourage your children to write. Tell them to write whatever is on their mind and keep writing. They can write: “Mom is wearing a purple shirt. Today she looks happy. The sky is blue. The clouds are yellow. I just heard a bird chirp. The birds name is ‘Lyonal’. Lyonal is a green bird with purple wings. He has a mother named ‘Fettucini’ and a father named ‘Alfredo’. ” From this exercise they will learn how to write great stories this summer.
- Have a Picnic in Your Backyard! You can have a picnic anywhere. Why not have a picnic in your backyard? Get a blanket, have your kids help you make the food (peanut butter & jelly puzzle sandwiches are a favorite), and put everything you need in a basket. Your kids will enjoy creating and imagining a wonderful adventure and you won’t have the stress of traveling far from home!
Your kids will love these summertime activities and you can create great memories they will remember for a lifetime!
