Holidays can be a testing time for parents without planning some kids activities to occupy their time. With kids left to their own devices, they’ll wreak havoc in your home. This site was setup to help parents spend more quality time with their kids by offering suggested activities, experiments and educational toys that can bring order back from the chaos.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s holiday activities, activities for doing on car jounrney, or activities for those hours of boredom your kids often feel when they aren’t getting all the attention from their parents that they want – this site should have plenty of ideas for you. If you have your own favourite activities, please feel free to submit them to this site as we do publish all good kids activities.
Educational Kids Activities has an increasing number of cool activities you can do with your kids, as well as video & photo demonstrations for many of the activities. Best of all, if you want to share your own child activities with us, we’ll reprint your activity on this site.
The ideas on this site are split up into three main categories (each with a number of sub-categories). These are:
1. Educational Toys & Games
There are a wide range of educational toys and games available, but just how good are they? Ideally, they should be created by companies that have the research and development funds to ensure that the toys and games do actually teach the kids something.
These educational products will be divided up into age groups, e.g. with the early age groups the products may be teaching stuff like colors & shapes, while the slightly older kids may be learning more about spatial awareness – up, down, left, right etc. Educational toys for even older children might highlight the alphabet, words and numbers.
If these educational toys & games are down well, the learning is second to having fun. The kids won’t even know they are learning! When learning becomes fun, kids love to learn!
2. Science Experiments
All kids love science, and most adults too. The difficulty is often being able to explain to your kids how the science works behind the experiment.
On this site, most of the experiments that we show you (many with video) will have an explanation behind the science, and where possible, that explanation will be in a language that your kids will understand. Show them great stuff, and teach them how it works. You’ll be your kids hero, and they will start taking a keener interest in science lessons at schools. Who knows, maybe their grades will even improve!
3. Kids Activities
The final category on this site is all other activities for kids. When kids have time on their hands, they get into mischief. Finding high quality activities for your children to do either on their own, or preferably with you (quality parent / child time) will keep them happier, and you less stressed.
We will provide you with instructions for these activities as well as shopping lists so you know what you need to get in for the activity. You can then plan fun and engaging fun with your children. A busy child is a happy child, especially when they are having fun!
