Spring break: 5 ideas for useful leisure activities for children at home
Kyiv • UNN
Find out what to do with your child during the spring break: creativity, film screenings, vlogging, cooking, interior design. The dates of the holidays vary by region of Ukraine.
Any vacation is the most pleasant time for children, but not always easy for parents. Most families plan trips or joint vacations for longer school vacations - summer or winter. UNN will tell you how to occupy your child in order to spend time with benefit during spring break at home.
When do spring break start for Ukrainian schoolchildren
Due to the martial law and peculiarities of the educational process in different Ukrainian schools, the dates of spring break may vary depending on the region. Individual communities make decisions according to the security situation, weather conditions and the level of morbidity. Spring vacation for schoolchildren in the capital will begin on March 24 and will last until March 30 inclusive. For comparison, in Sumy and Dnipro, children will go on vacation from March 31 to April 6, and some educational institutions in Cherkasy will go on spring break as late as April 15, also for a week.
What to do on vacation at home?
Encourage your child to be creative
Handicrafts are one of the exciting opportunities to organize a schoolchild's leisure time with benefit during the holidays. Choose a suitable type of creativity together with your child so that the process brings him maximum pleasure. These can be paintings by numbers, which do not require special artistic talent, but allow you to develop perseverance, attentiveness and accuracy.
Make your own bird feeders to hang them in the yard, homemade cards for friends and relatives, or a time capsule for the whole family, and then bury it in a secret place. Pay attention to quilling, bead and clay crafts, rumbaxes (a set for creating realistic mini-copies of rooms or houses), sets for experiments that can be carried out at home, sets for tricks, etc.
Organize your own film screening
Make a selection of movies and cartoons. Watch them with your child, and then discuss the plot together, vote for the best picture according to each family member. Such leisure will not only help to have fun together, but also bring benefits in the form of developing critical thinking and help the child learn to defend his own opinion.
Shoot a vlog about the holidays
Vlogging is a good way to express yourself. It improves speaking skills, self-esteem and the ability to speak on camera. You don't need expensive equipment for this, just a smartphone and a simple editing program in it.
The vlog can be shared on social networks or left for the home archive.
Cook together
Cooking can become a very exciting process for a child, which can occupy him during the holidays. Invite your child to make a menu for the coming week and cook meals together. At an early stage, entrust simple processes. Start with simple goodies, such as pancakes, croutons, to improve the skills of a young cook, starting from them.
Change the interior of the children's room
This does not require spending money on expensive repairs. You can change the arrangement of furniture and add new interesting elements and decorations that the child will need to take care of. Let him suggest how he wants to decorate his own room or corner, come up with and create decorative elements for a new atmosphere. Give the child the opportunity to complete this task on his own, but make it clear that he can count on your help.
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