The warm days of summer and fall are coming quickly to an end, but your children are ready to keep on going wrecking havoc in your home with their unspent energy. What you really need is to create a listing of ideas, things to do for your children so they can focus their energies on something else besides running in circles through out your home.
One great thing about winter is that you still have a ton of things that you and your children can do inside to keep their minds and spirits busy. Learning is always an option, but while they might not want to do something that is educational you have to learn to make it more fun while they are learning.
Small children ages three, four and five and learn to hold a pencil, crayon or pen and make holiday cards. Christmas, New Years, Valentines, and even St Patrick’s Day cards are always welcomed from aunts, uncles, neighbors, and for grandparents. Just a piece of paper and a colored pen will allow your child to sit for fifteen minutes where their creative juices are going to present a picture for the card.
The learning part of this activity is the learning how to write their name, practice writing their name, or practice writing other letters of the alphabet on their card. For example Merry Christmas Aunt Susie - will give your child many letter to practice. Children love to be excited about the holidays and spread their holiday cheer, use this opportunity to keep them busy fifteen minutes at a time while creating cards.
A great activity that both young and older children alike will take part in is the rearranging their rooms. While this is going to include you in their activity, rearranging their room to how they want it to be will allow you to clean out stuff they don’t use while the room is being rearranged.
Children about ten or twelve are not going to be interested in just sitting down and writing letters any more, they want to have pen pals that actually write back. You can start your ten to twelve year olds writing to pen pals that are their cousins, relatives in a rest home, or even relatives that live far away.
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