Healthy Family Healthy Budget - Summer Edition

There’s two words no parent wants to hear
over the school holidays, “I’m bored.” It can
be hard to keep kids busy on rainy days
when there’s no money left to spend on
adventures or movies nearing the end of
the holidays. Keeping children amused on
wet days or when funds are low can be
tricky, but they can turn into super fun days
with a little thought.
If you don’t want your kids spending all day
on their computers, phones or watching
television then here are some ideas that
might help:
• Make a cubby house with the young
ones. Throw a sheet over the dining
table and let them set up a cubby
underneath. Then let them organise a
picnic lunch in the cubby house.
• Have craft days. I used to get my kids
to make birthday cards for friends and
family. It’s so much cheaper and has
more heart too.
• Playdough never goes out of style.
Google the recipe and save it for boring
days in the holidays.
• Write a book. Encourage children to
write and illustrate their very own book
with their own story. They can either
draw pictures or cut images from
magazines.
• Have a bake day. Use this to freeze
snacks such as muffins, pikelets or
Boredom busters
cakes to have for school lunches.
Check out the recipes in this edition.
• Arrange a play date. Allow them to
invite a friend over, and maybe the
friend will return the favour later in the
holiday’s.
• Plan a concert. If you have more than
one child get them to create their own
concert and they can perform it to the
adults before dinner.
• Visit friends or relatives. Drop the
kids to grandma’s house
• Spring clean their room. At the rate
kids grow, there will always be
something to clear out of a closet or
something lurking under a bed that
probably shouldn’t be there.
• Have a game day. Get out the board
games and have fun.
Article submitted by Annette Sym of Symply
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