Activities to Keep Your Children of All Ages Busy During a School Holiday

If you have had children or worked with them, you have learned to have activities prepared for them at all times in case of bad weather, or just have a day off school. The following are some activities to keep your children busy as bees during the school holiday period.

1. Take your children to the local playground or park.

No matter the age, your children will always enjoy going to the park. You could bring some extra toys to keep the excitement alive, such as a kite, jump rope, Frisbee, or ball. Another thing you could do while there is go on a scavenger hunt or use your imagination and let the children act out what objects you think up.

2. Take your children for a walk around your house or yard.

You can do this inside the house or outdoors. Take a walk around and talk about what you see. If you do it inside the house, have each child take turns being tour guide, especially in their bedrooms to point out interesting points.

3. Have a dance party for your family.

You can have this inside or outside, anytime you wish to do it. All you need is something to play music such as a radio. Once the music starts, everyone dances however they wish to without anyone making fun of the other. To make it interesting you could have each child become the dance leader and everyone else has to follow his or her lead. At the end of the song, the leader changes.

4. Play the wave game, a form of tag.

In this game, the children all run away from the person who is it. When the person chasing the others catches up to a person they wave at that the other child and that child becomes it.

5. Play a good old game of tag with your children.

Tag can be played with a variety of ways. You can play freeze tag where if you are tagged by the person who is it then you freeze until another person comes to touch you and free you. Another type of tag is one with safety areas where you pick something that when the children are running around then they will have a base to go to and if they are touching that area they are safe. There is squatting tag, where everyone runs around and just before the person who is it tags you, you squat and you are safe.

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