It's vacation time: 10 holiday activities for the kids

Vacation is happiness! If the weather allows your kids would play outside but when it's rainy, They may find the time long! Here are a few simple and easy ideas to prevent them from being bored for too long!

To your treasure boxes!

---

Creativity: chase away boredom and stimulate the imagination! Create a magic box for the vacations with your family! A shoebox, for example, will do the trick. With the help of your child, paint it or decorate it with funny collages to make it unique! It will hold all the materials that children love: leaves, colored pencils, markers, glue, stickers, scissors, scraps of fabric, pieces of string, adhesive tape... And let's go for improvised artistic activities with dad, mom, the nanny or grandma when boredom sets in!

Bake the cake !

---

Children, even small ones, like to make themselves useful and participate in grown-up activities! On a rainy day when your child is bored? Offer to help you bake their favorite cake. Even if they can only break eggs, lick the pan of melted chocolate or add the finishing touches with gourmet decorations, they will be very happy to participate ! a sweet treat the whole family will love. Yum, the cake is even better when you make it yourself and mom or dad congratulates you! Discover also all our kitchenettes and dinettes to play the real little chef!

Let's go hunting for colors!

---

If weather permits, suggest to your child a color hunt in nature. The goal of the game is to bring back small colored elements of nature, such as blue, green, red and yellow. Prepare a small transparent bag for each color (freezer bags for example) and go for a walk in search of pebbles, leaves, flower petals, grains of sand or any other natural treasure!
At the same time, your child will learn to sort colors and enrich their vocabulary. A daisy petal, a eucalyptus leaf, a mussel shell: all opportunities to learn new words! To deepen the knowledge of colors, you can also offer a first color book!

Paint pebbles and shells

---

If you are by the sea, take advantage of the good weather to bring home treasures that will keep the kids busy on rainy days! On the beach, look for the most beautiful pebbles and the biggest shells that will be used as supports to paint. Plain, printed, flowered, everything is allowed. And if pebbles and shells are not present in your environment, he can also paint small treasures found in the woods like pine cones for example. With finger painting, success is guaranteed!

Friends first!

---

Keeping a bored child busy is hard work! And just like grown-ups, children need to interact with each other. If your child is bored, suggest that he or she invites a friend over to the house for a few hours, whether it's a school friend or a vacation buddy. Kids have a lot of imagination between them and both will be happy to create their own world with simple games that will seem extraordinary!

Reporter-photographer in the making!

---

Children love images, photos, colors, and amazing moments! For the summer vacations, suggest to your child to make a nice photo album with their own pictures. Thanks to Vtech kidizoom, your kids can take as many pictures as they want, learn how to frame, capture the moment, their own! You will select with them the pic of the day and will be able to make their own vacation album that they will be able to proudly show to family and friends by proudly commenting it. This will also be an opportunity to learn the days of the week and invent new words by giving each day a name with each photo that you will caption.

Water games

---

The weather is nice and you have a garden? Go for the inflatable pool and water games or bath toys. Water gun, hose (in a reasonable position to avoid overflowing), nothing is more fun for children! Around two or three years old, a simple basin can be an ocean of happiness for a child: they will bathe toys, dolls and will make the little boats make extraordinary trips. Of course, this simple activity requires constant supervision.

Shopping together

---

Pushing the shopping cart in the supermarket is not always easy with a small child. On the other hand, don't hesitate to take them to the market or to the small shops with you. To discover amazing scents, colors and shapes that will arouse their curiosity. They will be proud to choose items with mom or dad : the fruits, vegetables and other unknown wonders that they will taste during the next meals. Go to the bakery with them and let them pay for the bread: an opportunity to do as the grown-ups do, to learn to say hello and thank you and to become independent little by little.

The drawing of the day

---

What child, even a little one, doesn't like to draw? During vacations, create a little ritual: the drawing of the day! If your children do not know what to draw, help them a little. They can draw what they see through the window, the neighbor's cat, flowers for mom or just what comes to mind. And if they are still too young to do it and you're also short on ideas, opt for coloring pages or Djeco's step-by-step method to teach them to draw step by step! Date each work and file them in a small vacation drawing box. Your children will be proud to find them year after year and to see the big progress!

Magic herbarium!

---

It's as old as the hills but it's always a big hit with children from 3 years old! A herbarium requires a little patience but the result is worth it! Create or buy a drawing book and draw the whole plant on one page. Then glue the petal or leaf you found in the right place. Then write down the name of the plant, its scientific name that you will have searched on the internet or simply the name that your child will have invented for it. The herbarium is a great way to discover nature's treasures, to enrich their curiosity and vocabulary, and above all to create a unique work together!

Playing alone, you can learn!

---

In order for your children to learn to play alone, help them a little! Start an activity with them by encouraging their initiatives. Then they will be able to continue on their own under your kind and attentive eye and, little by little, they will learn to use their imagination, to get confident and to develop autonomy by creating their own world. On the other hand, be present but not overly present. Trying to keep them busy at all costs at the slightest sign of boredom will prevent them from finding the right idea to occupy themselves. To help them, show that they can trust themselves by telling for example, that you are sure they will come up with a great idea! And don't forget that boredom, in reasonable doses, is very formative for children because it helps them find extraordinary resources against the ""I don't know what to do!"" that all parents have heard someday !