Student Wellbeing & Learner Diversity
Easy & Fun Winter Holiday Activities
What are you up to these school holidays? Need some new ideas for fun activities for kids? Here are some school holiday boredom buster ideas that will hopefully help you through these school holidays.
A great idea is to download this printable and stick it next to your fun activities for kids chart. If the kids complain they are ‘bored’, then they can refer to this chart for ideas on how not to be bored! You can even write the ideas on paddle pop sticks, put it in a jar and colour code it according to this poster. So for example, if they want to ‘earn some money’, they can pick out a green paddle pop stick which might suggest they collect the washing.
Glow in the dark slime
My kids love anything that glows in the dark and I bet yours do too! Why not make a batch of glow in the dark slime, and hide some figurines through it! Tell your kids to rescue their figurine friends from the deadly slime monster!
Rainbow Toast
Your kids might enjoy making their own lunch by painting their bread with rainbow colours, toasting it and eating it! Safe and easy to do, this rainbow toast might be good fun for little ones, made with white bread, milk and food colouring. Click the link to follow the recipe.
DIY Shoebox Dollhouse
Buying new shoes these school holidays? Make a personalised dollhouse with your little ones using their imagination and the shoeboxes.
DIY Dream Catchers
How gorgeous are these dream catchers! Using an embroidery hoop, yarn, washi tape, beads and your imagination, this would make a lovely afternoon craft activity.
Leaf Characters
Take a walk around your garden or local park and pick up some leaves with interesting shapes. Using a black and white marker, create some leaf creatures. Let your kids use their creativity and make up leaf families, or stories with their leaf buddies.
Family Puppets
Have a laugh together and make puppets of your family members for the kids to play with and pose in all sorts of funny positions. This has to be one of the most memorable & fun activities for kids around.
DIY I Spy Bags
Have some ‘I Spy‘ fun that could last for hours (hopefully!). Scavenge some small toys and hide them in rice or poly pellets. Once all objects are found, you can find new items to put in your ‘I Spy’ bag.
Pom Pom Race Tracks
Set up a race track using tape on your floor, grab a pom pom and straw and you’re ready for a race!
Puppet Theatre
Does your child love making up stories? This DIY puppet theatre is perfect for budding puppeteers and storytellers!
Paper Aeroplanes
What a great idea to channel the kids’ energy into a game of trying to fly their paper aeroplanes through the targets. Get them to keep their scores and try to beat their ‘personal best’. All you need is a large piece of cardboard to make this paper aeroplane target board.
DIY Notebook
Using old cereal boxes, make some notebooks that your kids can decorate. Use them as a diary to record what they do each day during the school holidays.
Marshmallow Catapult
Science can be fun right?! Explore trajectories and put your little engineers to work building this catapult. See if they can get their marshmallows to fly into a container (and not all around the room!!).
Pipe Cleaner Pets
Make some sweet pets using pipe cleaners and printed pet heads. They could go and live in the DIY shoebox dollhouse!
Donna Allen