subject: Keeping the Children Busy [print this page] Keeping the Children Busy
During school holidays and weekends, the children can sometimes end up under your feet all the time. It is a good idea to look around at all the things one can keep them occupied with, such as handmade gifts and crafts, collage projects, making address labels, build jigsaw puzzles, coloring in or painting, etc.
Kids get bored very quickly, so finding that special activity to keep them at it for long periods at a time is not as easy as it sounds. Fortunately there are many websites and books out there with brilliant ideas of how to keep them busy.
Some of these activities can include indoor activities while if the weather permits, encourage outdoor activities such as games outside, swimming, etc. Appoint some of the older kids as "watchdog" but call them the "captain" but never leave them totally out of your attention.
Outdoor activities can include but not limited to kicking a ball, hide and seek, cycling, skateboarding and swimming. Encourage the children to start their own little vegetable garden with only a few seeds, instilling in them the sense of responsibility to water and weed the garden at regular intervals. Children love water, so play water games.
Prepare for indoor activities. Encourage children to read more and watch less television. For smaller kids make some play dough or buy colored clay. Kids love making little worms and roll balls and form their own figurines and pictures. If you are up to it, let them cook simple dishes or cookies in the kitchen. Make puppets out of egg holders, string, pipe cleaners, whatever you have on hand. Make face masks out of paper plates or colored cardboard. Let them put up little plays with their handiwork.
Show them how to make handmade greeting cards and allow them to fill in the address labels themselves. Doesn't matter how crooked they come out, it would be their work and be something to treasure by the recipient.
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