27 Ways a Tutor Could Help Right Now
Kids need to be bored. When they are bored, they get creative and think of things to do. Watching TV and playing video games passes the time, but when the electronics are turned off, creativity can begin. Sometimes, however, the kids need a little shove in the right direction. Sometimes they need us to help them engage their brains. Sometimes we want to get involved and create and learn with them!
If you need ideas to lead kids from boredom to creativity, here are engaging activities that also have an educational purpose.
- Have a lemonade stand and have the kids create a “business plan.”
- Track the daily temperatures and make different charts for them.
- Keep a “Would You Rather” journal.
- Visit new museums that you hadn’t thought to visit before.
- Start a blog and let the kids write their own posts.
- Plant a variety of flowers and see which ones grow the fastest.
- Create a picture journal and let the kids take a picture each day for it.
- Make a puppet theater and spoon puppets.
- Join the library’s incentive to read program.
- Build a marble run out of found objects around the house.
- Start a neighborhood or friend book club.
- Have a scavenger hunt at the zoo.
- Create your own board games and then play them together.
- Research at the library before an outing, like to a baseball game, museum or zoo.
- Invent something new and useful out of trash and recyclables.
- Start a collection with Smithsonian Kids Collecting. http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/smithsonian_kids_collecting/main.html
- Build a bubble ring, unpoppable bubbles, and colored bubbles.
- Collect rolypolys (pill bugs) and build a small world for them.
- Press a variety of flowers and create cards and pictures with them later.
- Plan a treasure hunt and have family members hunt for the treasure.
- Whittle bars of soap into animals.
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