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Children are naturally really curious,” says David Shernoff, Ph.D., an educational psychologist at Rutgers University. “They readily become engrossed in an activity. As a parent, you need to set up the conditions to make that most likely.”
Start by choosing ideas that target your child’s personal interests, get supplies together, then let them be.
With less than a month for schools to reopen, here are some ideas to engage the kids.
Get your kids to try these boredom-busters.
1. Make puppets out of paper bags.
2. Construct a house of cards.
3. Juggle marbles.
4. Conduct a blind tasting test.
5. Play a staring match.
6. Paper aircraft are raced.
7. A magic trick
8. A few words in sign language
9. Yoga poses
10. Juggling
11. Origami
12. Crocheting
13. How to make a friendship bracelet
14. Hand-clapping games
15. New jump-rope moves
1. Make puppets out of paper bags.
2. Construct a house of cards.
3. Juggle marbles.
4. Conduct a blind tasting test.
5. Play a staring match.
6. Paper aircraft are raced.
7. A magic trick
8. A few words in sign language
9. Yoga poses
10. Juggling
11. Origami
12. Crocheting
13. How to make a friendship bracelet
14. Hand-clapping games
15. New jump-rope moves
