Keeping foster and adopted children busy during the summer months can be a challenge.
I don’t know about you, but I kind of dread the long, hot summer months when tempers flare more easily, and I hear the constant whine of “Mom, I’m bored!” I find that my older adopted son is especially challenging, as were my foster children when I was a foster parent.
So, this year I am equipping myself with a list of cheap, easy, and educational activities for them to choose from:
- Phone, write, or email a friend
- Draw or paint a picture
- Draw a cartoon strip
- Ride your bike or scooter
- Read a book
- Write a story or poem
- Turn on some music and dance
- Play in the water hose
- Have a water gun fight (with willing siblings or friends)
- Do something nice for someone else
- Read to your younger brother and sister
- Write a song
- Play a board game with your siblings or firends
- Go bird-watching
- Take a walk
- Draw with sidewalk chalk
- Play with clay or play-doh
- Make something with craft items
- Play with K’Nex, Legos, or Lincoln Logs
- Build an obstacle course and race against your friends to complete
- Have a tea party
- Hunt for bugs and look at them under a magnifying glass
- Catch butterflies
Now, I would love to hear some of your ideas- please share!
