In these vacation days everything is entertainment, but they can also turn into a real nightmare. The children are going to ask you to go out, come in, do a lot of activities, visit different exhibitions. Everything is intended for entertainment, but What's up if the weather is not good or you don't get a chance to get out. This situation becomes more difficult when the child is an only child.
Don't worry, we give you some options to keep your kids entertained at home without having to spend hours in front of the computer or television.
Activities for the little ones
The smallest and smallest of the house entertain themselves with almost anything. One way to exercise his memory and also participate in an entertaining game with him is to start the treasure hunt. You must turn your house into a real hideout for pirates. In the space that you decide hide one or more treasures and make a map, if your child can read it, or just go indicating with clues where to look for it. Remember to adapt the game to his age.
You can add more magic to this game if you disguise, anything you find in the closet can do, or if you decorate the house with the theme of the treasure. It's just a matter of putting a little imagination into it.
Even if it's imagination, you can create dialogues and theatrical situations through which to do that treasure hunt. A pirate who comes to the port and asks another sailor, or a parrot ... who knows. You can mix stories and characters that your child knows, children do not work with logic, so it does not matter if you want to ask the wolf or the three little pigs.
Entertainment for children from 6 to 7 years old
From 6 or 7 years old, children already they want to show what they can do. If you have had to stay at home with your son or daughter, you can play mimicry. This way you will get him to strive to develop another expressiveness. For example, to start and make it very easy, you can tell him to show you some action: like driving, climbing stairs ... and then making it more difficult for him, something like piloting a submarine, preparing food, going to school. Activities that you do, or not, on a daily basis, for which you cannot use words.
There are boys and girls who they especially entertain themselves drawing, so take out the paints and let your child unleash his imagination. As a complementary exercise, you can put music on him and ask him to draw what inspires him. I assure you that a Scorpions record has nothing to do with a Verdi record.
You can also take advantage of the opportunity that rain, snow, wind and all inclement weather gives you to explain the formation of clouds, the different winds there are, the seasons and everything you can think of. A pleasant chat with a rich snack is something that the little ones, and the older ones always appreciate. It's what we call spending quality time together.
Activities for the older ones
Here it is almost inevitable to be in front of a screen. You may share with your child their favorite game from the game console and, let him or her teach you to look for shortcuts and score points, or compete against him. Not all video games are harmful, you can choose some very educational and also super entertaining.
you can also decide which movie to watch, prepare all the paraphernalia as if you were in the cinema and hit play. Later you can comment on the movie, what have been your values, what did you think of the behavior of the protagonists or simply talking about the costumes. Transcendent issues do not always have to be given.
And if all that does not work we always have the traditional board games, puzzles, ludo, the goose, trivia, monopoly ... or is it that you no longer remember the endless games of this game?