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Fun Family Activities You Will All Actually Enjoy

Fun Family Activities You Will All Actually Enjoy

Do you wish you spent more time doing fun family activities? It can be really difficult to get everyone in your family together to do something that everyone enjoys. Often, what we do caters to one or two members of the family and the rest just tolerate it. It doesn’t have to be that way! 

If you need ideas for fun, project-based learning activities, consider investing in MindFinity. We will have you and your child learning through different activities and projects. With MindFinity, you won’t have to plan out quite so many activities, as we do that work for you! Even better, you’ll be able to expand on them and raise smarter kids! 

If this sounds interesting to you, click here to learn more. 

If you want to learn about more fun family activities, keep reading:

Go Geocaching!

Geocaching is a great way to learn about directions, talk about coordinates, and get some physical activity into your day. Geocaching requires at least one smartphone and a good pair of sneakers. Your family can download a geocaching app, where you will be able to pick “geos” based on your location, the difficulty, and the time.

Some geos are hidden in plain sight and others require climbing trees, figuring out puzzles, or even looking for names in cemeteries. If you have playgrounds or parkland around your neighborhood, you will probably find a few options. Bring something with you to put into the capsule and be sure not to disturb any wildlife or vegetation.

Once your family has done some geos, you can even buy your own and hide it somewhere!

Learn A New Board Game

Board games are fun because everyone in the family can get into the action. They are old-fashioned, sure, but they are proven winners. You can play them on vacation, holidays, or just when you need something to do. Don’t feel limited to board games, you can learn card games too!

If your family does like video games (and there is nothing wrong with that!), consider getting multiplayer games that you can change the levels on, something like Mario Party.

Plant A Garden

Gardens are a really cool way to get everyone in the family together and working towards a common goal. Whether you want to plant flowers or an herb garden, you can use this as a learning experience. Teach your children how to survive off the land, take care of something, and do something good for their mental and physical health all at the same time.

Gardens can help you to teach fractions, photosynthesis, and many “life lessons” that they will need in the future. Even better, an herb or vegetable garden can lead to cooking healthy meals together where you can teach about nutrition.

Explore A New Culture

As your child gets older, becoming a global citizen is going to be important. If you have more time to spend together as a family, consider making an entire day or weekend of exploring a specific culture. You can watch documentaries, go to museums, eat meals, listen to music, and just explore cultures that maybe they haven’t been exposed to before. This is a great way to teach your children about people who don’t look like them or sound like them. Even better, there is probably a ton of information that you will learn too.

Make Artwork

Art is a great way to do something individually while still coming together. Collect different arts and crafts supplies and then have a day where everyone just makes something new and interesting. Maybe someone will use watercolors while another person makes a collage. Someone may go outside and color with chalk while another person uses only a pencil to make a sketch.

When everyone is done, come together and explain your artwork. Maybe even make a display area!

MindFinity Provides Projects The Whole Family Will Love

Our award-winning program helps your children expand their brains and learn polymath thinking skills while dancing, singing, doing martial arts, and moving around! 

You get a new game for each day of the week, which takes just a few minutes a day. And you can expand on the games and have your child put their imagination to use and expand other projects that they are already doing. You’ll get some fun ideas as well!

Interested in learning more? To learn more about MindFinity and sign up for a free trial, click here.

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Things To Do When Your Kids Are Bored – 7 New Suggestions

“I’m bored.” It is one of those sentences that parents dread hearing because there is only so much that we can suggest before we toss the phone or tablet in their direction and entertain them that way. By the time our kids are 8 or 9, we’ve gone through all of the “creative” solutions to the boredom. They know our tricks and we have to get smarter.

If you need ideas for fun, project-based learning activities, consider investing in MindFinity. We will have your child learning through different activities and projects. With MindFinity, you won’t have to plan out quite so many activities, as we do that work for you!

If this sounds interesting to you, click here to learn more. Here are some great ideas that you may not have considered:

Have Them Write Their Own Play or Musical

If your child is complaining about being bored, suggest they write their own play or musical. Play them the cast recording of a musical you approve of and use that as their inspiration. They will need to come up with words, movement, and transitions. If they get really into it, they might even make their own scenery and costumes!

Practice A New Sport

Introduce your child to a sport that they may not have heard about before – like curling, rugby or lacrosse – and have them practice it. Don’t have the right gear? Tell them to use their creativity to make their own!

Painting Rocks

All over the country, people are painting “kindness rocks” and hiding them in plain sight for other people to find. Grab some rocks from your yard, wash them off, and have your children paint whatever they want on them. Just make sure to only use paint and not to glue anything on them, just in case they end up staying in nature.

Once they are painted (and sealed!), take a walk and hide them in public areas where others will find them.

Create Stories

Want to get in on the fun? Walk around your house and find some random objects and have your kids work those objects into a story. The more random the objects are, the more creative your children will have to be.

Make Domino Lines

It’s an activity that has been lost to time, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t bring it back. Get some dominoes and see who can make the most intricate maze that they will then push over. This teaches your children about spatial awareness and can cure boredom for hours.

Make A Music Video

Does your child have a favorite song? If so, challenge them to create a music video to that song. They will have to come up with the storyline, get dressed, and shoot the video. You can even have them use video editing software if you have it.

Write A Letter

Is there someone in your child’s life that would love to receive a letter from them? A grandparent? A great aunt? If so, have your child write them even a short letter and create their own stationery for it. They can even design the outside of the letter!

Use MindFinity To Help Them Stay Active & Creative

Kids who are more creative rarely get bored (even though it does happen sometimes!)

MindFinity will have you dancing, drawing, singing, and more with your children all while learning these skills and building Inventive IQ. You can watch them progress systematically, and understand how they work through things that they may not understand to better support them when they have trouble in school.

MindFinity is a great tool for younger children and their families to have fun learning together for just a few minutes every day. For more information, reach out to our team today to get started. 

If you want your child to have fun in school and take advantage of all the opportunities they are given, MindFinity is a great place to start.

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7 Project-Based Learning Activities & Games For Your Kids

Think about the different things that you learned in school and what has really stuck with you over the years. For many people, it is what we learned through projects. Project-based learning isn’t used as frequently as it should be in school, especially because most of us work on teams and projects at work. This type of learning is what best prepares us for the workplace and the future.

Want to help your kid have fun, avoid gifted kid burnout, and still learn something? Try these project-based learning activities:

Keep Them Short, But Detailed

The first thing you need to do is keep the project short enough that they can do it in a few sessions. 

If you need ideas for fun, project-based learning activities, consider investing in MindFinity. We will have your child learning through different activities and projects. Click here to learn more.

Have Your Child Create A Menu

A great way to teach your child about math, nutrition, writing, and life is to have them plan out a balanced, healthy menu for the day. Give them guidelines that they can follow, such as they need to have a certain amount of calories. From there, have them plan out breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.  They can make healthy meals while learning and building their Inventive IQ. MindFinity’s 5 Days of Play will get you started with games that can make cooking a fun learning experience, by transferring patterns from lessons to foods you learn to accelerate knowledge transfer and create new patterns in real time. 

This will bring in an element of innovation and creativity to your cooking. 

Want to add a gym element? Have them plan to burn calories! Use patterns of 2 and 3 to do it.

Create An Art Box

One of the best “projects” you can do is just fill a box with different art supplies that you can find around your home. Then, use something they are learning in school to have them create a project. For example, if they are reading a story about a musician, have them create their own instrument. If they are learning about the ocean, have them design a submarine. Have them use basic shapes to make new combinations and talk with them about what they did.

Write A Letter To Someone In Government

Is your student learning about government? Have them write a letter to someone they are learning about! While you are far more likely to get a response from your local mayor than you are someone in the federal government, allow them to choose someone to write. They need to have a point to their letter and maybe even propose a solution.

Your child will need to think about a problem, come up with a solution, and figure out how to explain it to that government official. Then, they will need to figure out where to send the letter and fill out the envelope.

Create A Volcano

This is one of the most iconic project-based learning activities that you can do with your child – and the kits are really easy to come by at any big box store. Volcanos are really interesting and the explosion is fun for kids to watch. 

Make this a multimedia project by having them watch something on YouTube about volcanoes, build their own volcano, and cause the eruption. You can even have them help to clean it up by coming up with a plan to do so. 

Design An Obstacle Course

Do you want your child to move around a little more? Get some sturdy furniture, outdoor toys, and a few surprise elements, and encourage your child to build their own obstacle course. Give them limits: it needs to have a certain number of elements, including specific movements such as jumping or balancing and take a minimum amount of time.

Of course, be prepared to run it with your child.

MindFinity Helps Kids Learn Through Games & Projects

Our award-winning program helps your children expand their brains and learn polymath thinking skills while dancing, singing, doing martial arts, and moving around! You get a new game each day of the week, which takes a few minutes a day. And you can expand on the games and have your child put their imagination to use and expand on projects that they are already doing. You’ll get some fun ideas as well!
Interested in learning more? To learn more about MindFinity and sign up for a free trial, click here.