Ideas for Spring Break Activities for Tweens

As kids get older, it can be harder to get the interested in any kind of activity that involves hanging out as a family.

But we still have to do something over spring break, or any other holiday from school. We don’t want to completely leave them to their own devices (literally, in the case of my 9-year-old, who will listen to Audiobooks on her iPad all day if I let her). But we’d like to keep the eye-rolling and grudging participation to a minimum, too.

Kitchen Counter Chronicle has some ideas for spring break activities for tweens that the whole family will enjoy. Whether it’s a day of gaming, letting the kids cook or putting on jammies and watching a movie, among other things, these ideas will help you do some bonding and give them good answers to the question “what did you do for spring break?” even if you were at home the whole time.

What do you do with tweens on school holidays? I’d love to hear your ideas.

[Photo: Kitchen Counter Chronicle.]

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When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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