20 Productive Things To Do with Your Kids

Taking care of kids during holidays could be a difficult task. Each parent should do some productive things with kids at home. Kids are at their learning stages. They are fresh with the fast working mind, everything they see, they observe and ask questions. It happens most of the time when you ask your kid not to do a certain thing and he/she does it anyway, for instance touching electric switches. You have to take your own precautionary measure to look after your kids at home. In some situations when you have to stay at home with your kids all day for an unknown time period, it will be a good option to polish their abilities and make them skillful for the future. There are several engaging things parents can do with their kids at home and make them learn with fun and joy. If you are finding ways to engage your kid in a productive way at home read this article.

1- Engage Your Kids in Creative Writing
Kids are creative by nature; all you have to do is finding ways to make them skillful. Ask your kid to write a story on a given topic and read it aloud by him/herself.

2- Do Home Chores With Kids
It will create a sense of responsibility among kids. They will know as an adult that there is no problem in doing home chores.

3- Make a Painting of House/Nature
Make a painting with watercolors with your kids. Maybe they make better than you. . . It could be a tree, sun, flower, or home… you can use color pencils and polish their coloring skills.

4- Ask Your Kid to Help You with Cooking
Cook a simple dish with your kid; some kids are good at cooking all naturally, teach them a few spices name, and their use in dishes.

5- Develop Their Interest in Gardening
Take your kids to the yard and prepare a small garden and plant seed of flower which may grow fast so they can enjoy their efforts in growing a small flower at home.

6- Make Your Kid a Book Reader
Urge them to read a book with you and later you can discuss the moral of the book with them.

7- Play Riddles With Your Kids
Play games with your kids that are thought-provoking such as brain teaser, Ask your kid to solve a puzzle. These activities are a source of mental workout.

8- Decor a Room With Your Kids Ask your kids to make handmade cards, flags, and fill balloons and décor your home with your kids.

9- Make Them Learn a few DIY Things
It is very essential to make kids learn a few DIY things. It could be any simple thing. They can make a wood toy or car, handmade cards.

10- Play Board Games With Your Kids
Kids can learn productive things in fun ways too. Play board games with them. Teach them tricks of playing board games.

11- A Homemade Hand Sanitizer by Kids
Make a home hand sanitizer with your kid with simple ingredients. Kids are good at measurements so take measures quantities of things required for hand sanitizer and ask them to make it.

12- Ask Them to Write Daily Routine and Tas
Make them habitual of writing daily stuff. It will also improve their writing skills. Writing anything may improve their handwriting as well.

13- Watch an Animated Movie With Snacks
Animated movies do have some interesting lessons. Along with other creative things, watch an animated movie with your kids and enjoy their conversation later.

14- Clean a Room and Put Things in Order with Your Kids
Start cleaning your kid’s room with him/her. Ask him/her to put things in their place. Make it his/her daily routine, how he or she needs to leave a room.

15- Do Laundry with Your Kids
Do laundry with your kids and give your instruction about how they can operate washing machines on their own.

16- Make Your Kid Learn Etiquette and Table Manner
You can arrange a small tea party or dining table with your kid and gather them for learning basic etiquettes of eating.

17- Learn Together with a New Language
Kids learn everything in a faster way. Start learning a new language with your kids and make them bilingual.

18- Bake a Sweet Cupcake with Your Kid Kids finds baking a very interesting hobby, you can work on your kid’s favorite hobby. Kids usually love cupcakes, so why not trying baking a cupcake with your kid, guide them in preparing things, and give instruction for baking.

19- Learn Health Benefits Together
A healthy lifestyle is necessary for every human being.. Watch a YouTube tutorial for doing exercise at home with your kids. Make them health conscious. Perform a demo by linking healthy food with a healthy lifestyle and ask questions later.

20- Teach Your Kids about Earth Map and Natural Event
Show your kids the globe and teach them basic geography, tell them where your country is located on the map.

Conclusion
Involving kids with you in productive things at home not only helps them to learn something new but it also helps you to learn a lot from your kids. You can observe your kids, how they react to certain things. Doing innovative things with your kids also keep you busy at home. Cherish these moments, tomorrow you will remember how your kid did certain things skillfully.