Summer Vacation Ideas for Your Kids
The best part of the year is arriving; i.e. summer holidays! Every child eagerly craves for the arrival of the summer vacation after the rigorous task of studying for exams. Apart from the child, each parent also plans beforehand about how to keep their child occupied by doing something productive. Here are few prized tips which would come in handy for your child this summer.
Trip to a library: One of the most productive tasks during summer vacation for your child is to take him to a local library. Enrol your child as a member of the library and either the child himself can choose his book or parents can help to choose a book. The parent can also read books to their kids. This motivates your child to read.
Swimming: This is one of the greatest summer activities for your child. Swimming helps a child to get busy, get exercised, stay cool and play around. Lot of apartments in India have swimming pools and an array of facilities. If you do not have one, you can always enrol your child for a swimming class or an activity club/community pools. Swimming classes can be taken up twice or thrice in a week alongside other activities.
Adventure spree: With an array of parks, museums and child friendly attraction in India and abroad, one can opt for various places to take their children during summer. Children enjoy the varied games, rides, theatre productions, laser shows and so on. The parent can plan beforehand and choose a place to tour their children during the summer vacations.
Summer camps: Enrol your kids in the summer camp programme. A lot of organisations and associations initiate the summer camps by including various learning, writing and recreational activities. Summer camp classes are either held throughout the day continuously for a month or few hours in a day. Enrolling your child according to your convenience for a week or more can teach your child quite many activities as well as result in a productive summer.
Sports: Various communities and associations in and around the apartment organize sports classes. Children during the summer vacation can take up various sports like throw ball, football, tennis, cricket and others. Also in many places sports competitions are held in order to encourage children and award them for their performance.
Music and dance classes: Today there are various dance forms and music genres which are initiated for children according to their IQ level. Dance classes particular initiated for children are held in various cities. Dances also include gymnastic activities, rhythmic dance; play their own music and dance, Latin dance, cultural dance and music. Apart from dancing, children can also take up playing the instruments and singing classes.
Volunteer: Not many of them in India follow this technique. Parents can keep their children occupied by letting them volunteer in their own community or outside. This would help a child build inter personal skills and more.
A trip to the zoo: Contemporary day children are more materialistic and are very rarely attached to nature. Every city has a zoo or the least, a display of a set of animals. One can take their kids to the zoo or the aquarium centre and make their children aware of the facts of exotic or endangered animals. Various zoos also hold programmes for children to learn more about wildlife and environment. Opting for this activity for your child can be one of the best summer pastimes.
Summer diary designing: After every summer children tend to drop their grades ion school as they are away from learning and school. Maintaining a summertime diary in which a child can write his daily activities or write about the projects will help him keep his educational skills intact. Children can also add pictures of their daily activities in their summer time dairy.
Gardening: One of the most entertaining summer activities can be gardening. There are various tools and guide books which help children take up gardening. Select a small space for your child’s gardening and give him his desired seeds or seedlings. Every child delights the moment when he sees his planted seeds sprouting. Also buy the desired coloured pail and gardening materials for your child and teach him how to maintain his garden.
Crafts: Children learn crafts in schools and are keen to learn more about it. One can engage their child in craft classes like origami, pottery, pot painting, decoration, flower arrangement, painting or creating their own playhouse. You can buy your child a mobile playhouse and let him decorate it and fix it on his own. Other activities like hand painting, wood work, embroidery and so on can be taken up as well.
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