35 School Holiday Ideas to do with your child or children.
Decorate Arrowroots with icing and sprinkles or lollies
Bake biscuits or cakes
Make a face mask
Enjoy a Movie Night with popcorn
Make an inside or outside cubby
Beach day
Go for a hike on a walking trail
Make home-made pizzas
Go for a drive to find a different playground or park
Drive through the hills and stop for an ice-cream or have a picnic lunch
Make fruit kebabs
Dress up Day (go shopping at Savers or the Reject shop to find some interesting articles for a low cost)
Cut out pictures from magazines and make a “Favourite Things” poster
Plant some veggies or flowers
Do an outside treasure hunt
Teach your kids to knit or sew (make a hand puppet out of old socks or find some cheap off-cuts at Spotlight to sew together)
Make a Musical Tree with streamers, old spoons and other assorted objects and hang them from a tree in your backyard
Make a felt Christmas stocking or bear and decorate ready to give as a gift for Christmas
Cardboard box fun – make a car, boat, rocket or robot and decorate
Make fairy wings out of wire coat hangers and stockings, tape together and then decorate with textas and glitter
Blow bubbles or make your own play dough
Visit your local Library
Feed ducks at a pond
Catch a bus or train to Glenelg or the City
Visit the Museum
Go to the Zoo (if you have the $$$) or watch a Zoo live-stream from Taronga, Melbourne or Werribee Zoos
Play a board game
Have a PJ Day
Teach your kids how to make a paper mache object
Do a large puzzle together over a few days
Make Christmas decorations or cards
Do a daily fitness exercise or dance class (there are lots on-line)
Make paper aeroplanes and have contests
Fly a kite
Make a fairy garden with small, cheap objects from the Reject shop
I hope this gives you a few different ideas that you may like to try to build happy school holiday memories - busy kids are normally less bored and whingy.
Parent Afternoon Tea
Friday afternoons are a good time to wind down. Why not join me and other parents in the Conference room this week from 1.30pm for free coffee and cake? Everyone is most welcome.