Activities to do with children during school holidays.

For children, the arrival of vacations means joy, but for many parents, school vacations represent many problems, mainly because nowadays mom and dad usually work and their vacations are much shorter than those of children. Without school and extracurricular activities, children will spend more time at home and, often, we do not know what to do in that spare time.

As the children they spend much more time at home, it is ideal incorporate them into household chores. It is recommended to establish a calendar with responsibilities, such as: taking out the trash, helping to set the table, washing the dishes, folding clothes, keeping the room clean, etc., and if they fulfill their responsibilities, we give them a prize or reward.

With the arrival of the holidays, many parents, depending on the age of the children, choose very common solutions, such as:

• Hire a person to care for the children.
• Leave them with relatives, mainly with grandparents.
• Send them of trips to the homes of close relatives.

These options are ideal for parents to continue working while their children have fun.

Although we are very concerned about school holidays, it is very important to highlight that the holidays in a special time to share and enjoy with the family. The ideal is to plan ahead, different activities to do with the children, which allow to enhance their skills and at the same time enjoy them. Among those activities we have:

• Enroll children in vacation plans.
• Have a picnic in a park or in the garden of the house.
• Prepare very easy desserts, such as cookies and cakes.
• Go for a bike ride.
• Travel.
• Visit museums, zoo, parks.
• Go to cultural events.
• Camping at home or in a park.
• Perform crafts.
• Sing in karaoke.
• Attend swimming lessons, dance, music, drawing.
• Go to the movies.
• Enroll children in a sport (soccer, basketball, etc.)
• In the company of family and friends, play board games.
• Go to the pool, the beach, the river.
• An afternoon of home cinema.
• Make pajamas with family and friends.
• Play hide-and-seek, riddles, video games, dominoes, monopolies, find treasures at home.
• Assemble puzzles.

Many of these activities involve expenses, while others are simpler, but all have as their main objective to entertain children and at the same time help them to develop motor skills, creativity and imagination, and the best thing is that they will have the company of their parents.