Exclusive Summer Vacation Activities for Students

Summer vacation this year will be much different from previous years. There will possibly be no trip nor even a same-day outing because of Covid-19. So, the common question is what to do during the summer vacation. Parents naturally want to keep their children active, but they are struggling to find out the best vacation activities. Here, we have picked the top 5 activities to do in summer vacation that will keep the children active. Also, these activities will pace up the overall growth of the student without online help. 

Reading

Students these days do not like reading much. At the time of reading a story, they mostly prefer to read a summary of the important events of the stories. Therefore, this summer break can be utilized to revive this lost good habit. 

To develop a habit of reading, parents have to play an important role. First of all, they need to get a membership of the local library for the student. Next, they need to get a list of recommended books for the students. For this, they can take help of Google or parents can suggest books to their children based on their preference. 

These needs mention that the books can be simple storybooks or novels or anything. But the topic of the reading material must interest the student. It will take weeks to complete a 100-page book if the subject is uninteresting for the student. But a student will finish reading a 1000-page book in a few days if the topic is interesting. So, the selection of a topic or subject is very important. 

Storytelling

Just like reading, storytelling is also a lost habit. In previous times, students developed a speaking style by narrating stories. By now, neither most of them are fond of reading nor they like storytelling. 

Here again, parents need to come forward. Parents have to encourage their children to narrate the stories they have finished reading. Along with that, parents need to encourage their children while they tell a story by patiently listening to the entire story from their child. If parents are not interested in listening to these stories, children will lack interest in storytelling. 

Parents can create Vlog with their children and showcase their talent of storytelling too. This will be a great encouragement to the children. Students who take storytelling seriously develop an outstanding speaking style compared to others. So, this activity can serve for a long term to the students. 

Cooking 

Cooking is a life-saving activity and in most of the cases, parents don’t allow their child to enter the kitchen. According to parents, a student needs to concentrate only on their studies and parents are there to do the rest. But this is not the case - everybody must have minimal cooking skills. 

During school days, it is not always possible to engage students in cooking. But summer vacation can be utilized in this activity. Parents can start with easy tasks like making a no-fire breakfast, making smoothies or healthy juice, making instant noodles or pasta, making a fruit salad, and so on. 

Gradually they can shift to complicated tasks like making lunch or dinner for all, making a small surprise birthday cake for father or mother. These complicated cooking tasks will definitely need parental guidance in the initial days. But later, students can do everything solely. 

Students often make a number of tasty dishes by experimenting and mixing-matching. Parents need to encourage them in cooking, even if something does not taste so good. 

Gardening 

Gardening is an essential skill to make children patient and caring. Also, gardening makes children environmentally aware. It is essential to engage students in gardening from a tender age to make them sensitive about the plants. 

Plus, gardening is worth learning as it teaches the students about the life cycle of plants practically. Therefore, parents should engage their children in gardening. Start with the primary tasks like watering the plants and collecting the waste leaves together. Gradually, go for the tasks like shoveling the soil, planting a seed, applying fertilizer, and other tasks. 

Cleaning 

Just like cooking, cleaning is another life-saving skill and everyone should take the responsibility for it. Students can start with cleaning their room - assembling their study table or wardrobe. Parents instead of cleaning their children's room, have to teach them how to clean it and why to clean it. 

Parents can also engage students in doing the dishes or washing the clothes. These will teach them about the importance of cleanliness. Also, it will teach the students not to keep dirt for a long time and put dirt only in the bins. 

Apart from these activities, students can learn something new by taking online help or they can practice what they are passionate about. Singing, dancing, and playing musical instruments are some common activities anyone can learn with an online tutor. Students may learn ventriloquism, calligraphy, origami, or paper quilling too during summer break. 

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Rachita

Rachita has 5+ years of experience in writing content. For MyPrivateTutor Kuwait, she writes the blogs. She loves reading old-school novels, a music lover and an amateur guitarist. She is a dessert lover and dreams of doing Zumba someday.