Great Spring Activities for your Children

There are many activities that you can do with your children and quite a few of them are geared toward springtime. This is the time of year when you get outside with your children and have fun. It isn’t too hot to spend time outside or so cold that you have to limit your time outside.

Bird Watching. You can use to activity to teach your child about the different birds in your neighborhood or surrounding area. This becomes more difficult to use when you live in a climate where there isn’t a lot of birds, like a desert area or in a city. But you can always go out to a rural area to engage in this activity. You can buy them their own pair of binoculars and let them help you choose bird feeders, so you can research together what type of birds you would like to attract. It would also be helpful to get a book from the library or book store that has pictures about the different birds in your area.

Gardening. You and your children can plan a garden and start planting it. You can choose the area you would like to turn into a garden and after you have figured out the area, then you can determine how many different types of plants you can grow. They can be involved in the entire process and can help you buy the seeds or plants. You will all have a fun time planting the seeds and plants in your new garden and it can be an ongoing project as they can help weed it and water it on a daily basis. The joy they will have when they are able to eat their first vegetable that they grew will not be surpassed.

Bicycling or Walking. This will help your child to stay in shape while being outside and spending time together as a family. If the family walks or rides bikes on nightly basis or even every other day it will be time that the family will enjoy. It will help the children to put an exercise program in place that they will have fun with and it will help them to keep on exercising after they become adults.

There are many other activities that you can do with your child during the spring from visiting the zoo to going to museums or nature centers. Spring time is normally a time when family go outside to enjoy their evenings together. It is a time they enjoy the warmth in the air and watch the new birds being born, the flowers blossoming and the trees blooming. It is the time when we can teach our children to enjoy not only time outside but time together as a family.