What is your daily schedule with your children during the summer?
I have a 5 1/2 year old and a 9 month old. We are fairly structured with preschool/naps/outings/etc during the school year. I tend to fall out of it during the summer months and it drives me crazy. Plus my 5 yr old wakes up asking, “What are we going to do today?” or “I want to do something fun today.” or “Where are we going today?”. I want some predictability and some fun things in place. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!!
May 9th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
this is my sisters scedule in summer with her 6 and 3 year old.
wake up at 7:15am
7:30 breakfast
8am clean up breakfast
9 am get dressed
9:30 story time
10 am color or draw a picture
10:30 snack and drink
11 am movie time
12pm lunch
12:30 clean up lunch
1pm do a craft
2 pm outside play
3:30 pm snack and drink
4:00 clean up snack
4:15 play with inside toys
5:00 clean up toys
5:30 pm dinner
6:30 bath
7pm movie
8:30 pm bed time
May 9th, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Some weeks I have swimming lessons every morning, others look more like this
Monday Do laundry, learn cleaning jobs around the house
Tuesday Go swimming
Wednesday Go to the library, make popsicles or some other fun kid recipe
Thursday Go to the park with moms group
Friday Invite a friend over to make a craft
I make the mornings fun and then they have to get creative in the afternoon while baby gets her long nap. I have two older, but if I only had one, I’d probably set up lots more playdates.
I like to do theme days too. Me and my kids are doing all the spanish color days and some other spanish days, we are also doing some games to learn music notes and plunk out songs on the piano. My daughter does an art project a day and my son builds a city everyday out of blocks, legos, constructs, train tracks, milk cartons, cereal boxes, blankets, chairs, books, cds, etc.
Its also good to check the newspaper for all the free summer activities going on. Libraries, especially, do a lot of free stuff for kids in the summer.
March 13th, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Outstanding writing. I’ve bookmarked the idea without a doubt.