Regardless of the weather, you can keep your kids entertained with these fun and cheap school holiday activities.
- Walk, ride or drive to a park and play classic games like hide and seek, stuck in the mud, egg and spoon races, duck duck goose and potato sack races
- Play a board game that you haven’t played in a long time.
- Pack a picnic and drive to a beautiful location.
- Make Cloud Dough or Play Dough.
- Get creative in the kitchen with your kids and cook a new dish.
- Build a cardboard cubby house forte.
- Visit your local markets.
- Play some musical instruments.
- Have a movie day/night at home.
- Tell stories with puppets or make your own puppets.
- Go for a bush, rainforest or costal walk.
- Visit your local swimming pool.
- Learn some new ball games.
- Create a backyard scavenger hunt.
- Camp out in your own backyard.
- Look through your photo albums with your kids.
- Paint pictures on paper or cheap canvas frames.
- Hold craft competitions. Give your kids a handful of crafty bits and bobs and encourage them to use their imagination to create something unique.
- Colour in. Print off colouring in sheets and give them to your kids to colour in.
- Teach your kids about origami art and make fun paper objects.
- Research safe science experiments and recreate them with your children.
- Have a minty hunt.
- Introduce your kids to gardening.
- Take your kids to a beautiful lookout and get them to draw or paint the landscape.
- Visit your local library and hire out some books.
- Have a pillow fight.
- Visit your relatives.
- Organise a play date with your kids school friends or your relatives kids.
- Have a water balloon fight in the backyard.
- Make a home movie.
- Learn magic tricks.
- Make a lemonade stall with your kids.
- Take your kids fishing if you live near a beach, lake or waterhole.
- Play Eye Spy.
- Rearrange or redecorate your kid’s bedrooms.
- Create an obstacle course in your backyard.
- Make Plaster of Paris ornaments and paint them.
- Make your own wrapping paper for future presents.
- Blow bubbles.
- Hide an object in your backyard and make a treasure map. Give this to your kids for them to find the object.
- Star gaze at night.
- Take a train, bus or ferry ride to a location that you have never been to before and explore the area.
- Go on a farm tour.
- Have a sleepover.
- Draw on the pavement with chalk.
- Write a letter and post it.
- Start a charity donation box or bag with your kids.
- Go bird watching.
- Learn and play new card games.
- Visit a museum or art gallery.
