7 Creative Activities To Engage Your Kids In This Summer
When the schools are closed for the summer holiday, parents get confused about how to engage their kids. What activities are you going to engage your kids with this summer? Here are 7 activities your kids will love.
7 Summer Activities Your Kids Will Love
1. Reading Club
Kids can join the summer reading challenge which just requires at least 30 minutes of reading a day. Even if they are reading cereal boxes, that counts as well. Many city libraries have a reading challenge with fantastic prizes to win if you can read up to 40 hours in total this summer. If there’s none happening where you live, you can start one with your kids and their friends.
2. Math Challenge with Other Kids: Make this as much fun as you can or find out from your local library if there’s a similar program like MathQuest. Instead of the kids attending some classroom-like maths lessons, they use the skills they already have to measure items and convert the units, buy and sell virtual products to learn how math works in business and real life.
3. Swimming lessons: Let them get in the water. Learn to swim or improve your swimming skills.
4. Coding Classes: Many city libraries have free coding programs for kids of different ages. If you don’t have a library around your vicinity, use free online resources to teach your kids. Watch my popular video about how and where your kids can learn to code.
If you can’t watch the video, here is an article about 10 Great Websites Where Your Kids Can Learn To Code for free or for a little fee.
5. Martial Arts or Taekwondo or Karate Lessons
With the increase in rape and evils being perpetrated by pedophiles, it is important for kids to learn self-defence skills to protect themselves. You can visit a local martial art or karate studio in your neighbourhood for a trial class so the kids can get to know what to expect before you enrol them fully.
6. Music or Dancing or Painting or Photography Lessons
To be a well-rounded individual, one has to not only be good in academics but in other areas of life. Get the kids to develop other skills that will help them communicate with people in an artistic way. The skills learned from the lessons in this category will make kids be in-tune with the world around them and not just learn only maths and science.
7. Cooking Lessons
Make time to teach your kids how to make different types of simple meals. Whoever has a stomach should learn to feed his or her stomach. I often tell my sons and daughter, “If you eat, you should learn to cook. It is not an option. It is a survival skill”.
Where I come from, many families only teach their daughters how to cook. The boys are usually kept away from the kitchen because it is believed they will eventually marry and have a wife that will prepare all their meals. This idea is very ridiculous. I ask, “what will these boys be eating before they marry the “cook”? Junk? Come on! Teach every kid (female or male) in your house how to cook healthy meals and feed themselves.
Wrapping It Up
There are lots of beneficial programs for kids during the holidays. If you can’t afford to send them to organized classes, teach them some skills you know will help them excel in life. get through life.
Let’s teach them how to be kind and respectful.
Let’s teach them to help in their local communities.
Let’s teach them to volunteer in church, library, community centre, school, or just help out a neighbour.
Raising great kids means we will have less evil people to worry about in the nearest future in our society.
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