Spring and summer are the favorite seasons for most kids and adults. Finally, we can get out of the stuffy rooms and breathe in the fresh air to the fullest. However, after the winter season, it is not so easy to switch children from computer games to spending time on the street. But if you add a little imagination and think over the spring-summer leisure of your child, then the results will not be long in coming.
HAVING FUN IN THE GARDEN
If you look in the department with kids’ in the supermarket, you will find exact reduced copies of all kinds of gardening tools there. These are multi-colored spatulas for cultivating the land, all kinds of watering cans for caring for plants, wheelbarrows for transporting wood and various other materials, toy lawn mowers, and even entire sets of garden tools. Teach your child how to care for plants, and in addition to a spatula with a watering can be sure to give out gardening gloves. In this way, you will show your child what it means to be a gardener and how to properly care for a garden. The young explorer set deserves special attention. It has a butterfly net, binoculars, a telescopic scoop-net, a magnifying glass, and a container for studying insects. These kits are a great way to take kids outside, bring them closer to nature, and give them a ton of exploration experiences. And this way of spending leisure time can encourage your child to read Jules Verne’s famous novel “The Children of Captain Grant” and get acquainted with one of the main characters of the book – a botanist named Paganel.
EDUCATIONAL WALKS IN THE PARK
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have your own garden. It may well be replaced by a walk in a city park or a trip with the whole family to nature. Be sure to take a flower press with you. Your child can collect their favorite flowers, place them on the wooden board and make impressive flower creations that look like works of art. Thus, the child will keep the flower for a long time and will be able to examine it in detail. And if your little one’s best friend has a birthday soon, this set can be a great DIY gift. You can also take a simple net for catching butterflies. This exciting and very simple activity will allow you to gently release the irrepressible children’s energy, get satisfaction from the desire to catch and look closer at a beautiful butterfly without harming it, and then release it into the wild. And with the help of a magnifying glass, you can observe the life of an anthill, which can be found in every park. For your baby, this will be a real discovery of the wonderful world with its hardworking inhabitants.
TOYS FOR PLAYING ON THE BEACH
If there is a pond with a sandy beach near your house, you are very lucky. You can spend hours watching how children diligently fumble on the shore and build fancy sand castles. The main thing is to provide such hard work with various improvised tools. Take a spatula and a bucket with you to the beach. And if there is a dump truck in the arsenal of toys, then your young builder will have no limit to the joy of creation. For playing with sand, there are many different molds in the form of ducks, bears, fish, and cupcakes. There is even a set of molds for creating shortbread ice cream that will not melt for a long time. With a special spoon for ice cream, a child can fill multi-colored molds and pretend to treat all members of his family with such ice cream. For an active holiday on the beach, take a Frisbee disc and arrange a competition for the score: after catching a Frisbee disc on your side, the player immediately throws, trying to land the disc on the opponent’s side. The plate flies from one side of the field to the other until one of the players misses the disc. The player who lands the disc on the opponent earns a point.
GAMES WITH FRIENDS IN THE YARD
While you’re looking forward to some exciting weekend trips, motivate your kid to take daily walks in the yard with his friends. And if you think over some exciting joint activity for every day, then the parents of your child’s friends will be simply happy. Give your child a fold-out tent and announce the day of the reception. Everyone can come to visit your baby and bring their own toys. During the interaction, children can change toys for a while. Such games bring children very close and develop positive socialization skills in your child.
Of course, all of today’s kids are obsessed with the latest smartphones, laptops, and game consoles. And there is nothing reprehensible in this – children keep up with the times. In order for your child to grow up healthy and comprehensively developed, it is worth diluting such a vacation with outdoor activities. Especially in spring and summer. And balancing different types of recreation during the summer holidays depends on the parents.
