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Things to do at home with your kids this summer during COVID!

By Christina Stump- Publisher of Macaroni Kid Douglasville July 4, 2020

I have complied a list of Summer Activities during our time at home with our kids during COVID! And I wanted to share my list with you all:)

1. Maintain a Structured Schedule. In summer kids need the structure that they have in the normal fall days too! 

2. Use Online Educational Resources. See some of our other educational resource articles. 

3. Teach Your Kids Life Skills. Teach cooking to our kids, teach them to make a kite/fly a kite, anything:)

4. “Visit” Iconic Landmarks. You can use the internet to find places that you can visit virtually.

5. Take a Virtual Museum Tour. You can visit virtual places like museums from the comfort of your own home!

6. Check Out Virtual Rides at Disney Parks. Go onto disney.com and see if you can locate these.

7. Break Out the Board Games. We love board games in my house and play them all the time:) You should pull out any board games you can if you have them. 

8. Catch Up on Movies and TV Shows. There are so many digital services like Netflix, Amazon, Disney Plus, Tubi, etc.

9. See a Broadway Show. There is a broadway.com website that you can watch past Broadway shows.

10. Read. Read books! This one is obvious;)

11. Play with Arts and Crafts. Arts and crafting is important to our kids and I love to do arts and crafting also. 

12. Try a Science Experiment. Kids love seeing the magic of the science when you create science experiments. 

13. Clean/Organize/Rearrange.  Always a good idea to clean the house and organize the house when you can. 

14. Play Video Games as a Family. Video games are fun with the family. And I will say that I love Animal Crossing!