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Holiday Ideas

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.

Every Blessing.

Cherie Love, Pastoral Care Worker