Spring Break time is coming up quick! So what’s a mom to do to fill her Spring Break days? Here’s a great list of ideas for you to use when you plan your week:
- Pick a craft to do, shop for materials and make it. Letting them pick will probably win you brownie points!
- Pajama Day combined with popcorn and renting movies
- Make cookies and take them to local heroes (firemen, police men, hand them to the mail man, etc…)
- Picnic at the park and play on the playground (assuming it’s warm enough)
- Visit a local art museum (check their website because many of them offer Spring Break discounts and free days)
- Make or buy snow cones
- Go see a movie
- Make paintings/drawings or cards for grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles and mail them
- Ice Skating or roller skating
- Spend a little time talking about how each one would like their room decorated and go get an item or two towards that goal.
- Go to local Farmers Market and pick some new fruits and veggies to try
- Plant your own flowers or herbs Day
- Have a scavenger hunt in the neighborhood, back yard or even in your house
- Baking/cooking class (making a favorite treat or simple meal)
- Write and illustrate your own book
- Go to the Library. Then have a contest to see who can read the most pages in a day (the younger ones can do picture books or have books read to them)
- Kids in charge Day (this one takes a brave mom!)
- Art time: drawing, painting, clay or play dough. For the little ones, making letters or shapes with their fingers on a plate of rice or shaving cream.
- pick your favorite candy bar, find a recipe online and make a replica of it yourself (this is a great way to make it a bit healthier too
- Rent or buy a DVD that teaches them how to be better at their favorite sport and follow it with them
- Have a Lego building contest.
- Have a spa day for girls and paint nails, do hair and dress up. Then take pictures!
- Have a tea party with girls
- Have a food science party with boys (look online for recipes that are also science experiments)
- Go to a craft store and buy cardboard letters to make their name and then decorate them according to their likes (for example glue Legos, crayons, or feathers to them or paint or color them) then hang them up in their playroom or bedroom.
Not all of these activities are suitable for all ages but you can pick the ones that work for your kids ages.
I hope you have a wonderful Spring Break when your turn comes! I would LOVE to hear any other ideas you have to fill the days!!
