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More Summer Boredom Busters
By Polly | June 18, 2007
Summer has begun and many parents are scrambling to find new and interesting alternatives to beat the summer blues. Here are some ideas to get you started.
- Organize a family Olympics for the families in your neighborhood. Get the kids involved from the very beginning in the planning and organizing. You’ll be amazed at all their incredible ideas. For inspiration, Watch Cheaper by the Dozen 2. You can rent it from your local library or buy it online at Amazon.
- Set up a backyard obstacle course. Give the kids the lead in designing and setting it up. Visit FamilyFun.com for some great ideas.
- Organize a book group and incorporate short day trips, crafts, science experiments, and other activities to reinforce the book’s message. Use books like Great Books for Girls and Great Books for Boys to help you choose the perfect book.
- Take an hour each week to watch a part of the BBC miniseries Planet Earth. This astonishing 11-part BBC series is brilliantly narrated by Sir David Attenborough and sensibly organized so that each 50-minute episode covers a specific geographical region and/or wildlife habitat (mountains, caves, deserts, shallow seas, seasonal forests, etc.) until the entire planet has been magnificently represented by the most astonishing sights and sounds you’ll ever experience from the comforts of home. Now available on DVD, you can rent it from the library, video store, or buy it online at Amazon. Bring the messages of the miniseries home by incorporating trips to the zoo or local museums, science experiments, and books.
- Take the time over the summer months to do the fun activities in Cranium’s Fun Folio. Jammed packed with over 50 activities there is plenty to keep them busy all summer long.
- Do nothing and just let the kids figure it out on their own. At first it will be hard (there will probably be a lot of crying and complaining), but after they realize you aren’t going to help them out, their imaginations will take over and they will have great fun
For more great ideas, read through our prior year’s summer boredom buster ideas or the suggestions from some of our blog visitors (scroll to the bottom of the page).
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