Summer holidays is a nice big break for children from their daily routine life. Children have a lot of time in their hand and they don’t know how to spend their time.This time can be best utilized in enhancing their skills along with giving them relaxation. Here are some activities you can look for keeping children busy during holidays:
•You can make your children join a library where they can get a lot of books to read. This will help to inculcate reading habit in them.
•Children can be introduced to photography. They can be taught and encouraged to take out photographs of animals, birds, flowers, nature etc. This will help to develop their interest in photography and they can become amateur photographers.
•Children can be encouraged to make their own comic book or they can be encouraged to author a novel. This can be an early introduction to the world of writing.
•Children can be encouraged to gain some work experience. For example,they can volunteer working in some library where they can maintaining simple record of books people are taking or they can volunteer working in some mall and deal with customers by introducing customers to products and any offers the mall is offering.
•You can take them to theatres, puppet shows or magic shows if any.
•You can introduce cooking activities for them and their friends, where they can share their recipes and try their hands on cooking. They can be made Chefs.This will help to develop culinary skills in children.
•If your children have a lot of collection of books they can run their own library or you can encourage and make a group of their friends who can run a library together.
•You can encourage your children to organize football or cricket matches.
•You along with your children can go on a long cycling adventure trip.
•You can organize mountaineering trip in a group.
•You can organize painting sessions in a group or individually you can encourage your child to paint his imaginations.
•You can arrange story telling sessions for children.
•You can take your children to amusement parks or water parks.
•You can go on a shopping trip with your children and let them handle the budgeting part.
•You can create a sand pit in your garden and introduce them to the world of sand sculptures.
•You can arrange clay for them and introduce them to clay modeling.
•You can introduce them to your holy scriptures.
• You can introduce them to meditation and yoga.
•You can make them join some classes for learning skills such as swimming, karate etc.
•You can arrange salad decoration or dressing competition for children.
•You can encourage children to display their special skills by arranging an exhibition cum sale event.
