Kindred Gifts' Blog

Make this year’s school holidays memorable whether you’re enjoying nature in the great outdoors, exploring your city or cozying up for a rainy day at home.

The School Holiday Directory is the perfect place to start your search for activities, facilities and events that are happening in your city and neighbourhood. Simply visit the site, choose the type of activity you’d like to experience and enter in your state. This is your A-Z guide of what’s on and where throughout the country. Another wonderful online resource is Kidspot- here you can search for local events and a huge range of interesting and fun activities you can enjoy at home and out and about.

Some other fun school holiday activity ideas include:

* Visiting your local zoo, aquarium or animal sanctuary to learn about and see wild animals and their natural habitats.

* Playing beach family volleyball; heading to the tennis courts; to the beach for a surf or hitting some local biketrails.

* Painting, drawing, modelling and crafting are always a huge hit with children of all ages. Make your own playdough, get out the kid’s easels, make a sock puppet or for the more serious art lovers head to the park and challenge them to write short nature poems or to sketch their surroundings in the Compendium ‘My Writing’ or ‘My Artwork’ journals.

* Enjoy a day outdoors by taking a road trip, going to the beach or driving to the closest state park. All you need to pack is a simple picnic lunch and for some good old fashioned fun, anything from the popular Fun in the Sack range like the Egg and Spoon Race, Ring Toss or Three-Legged-Race. The 4-In-1 Sack Pack includes all three games plus sacks for sack races. What fun!

On rainy days head to the local library to read some books or to the museum to gaze in wonder at dinosaur bones. If you’re enjoying a leisurely day at home and would like a bit of time to yourself the Makedo Make Your Own Kits keep older children entertained for hours and inspire imagination and creativity. Choose from making your own dollhouse, robot, car, cup critters, flowers, playhouse or make your own invention.

Alternatively the Tiger Tribe Boxsets are a unique gift for younger children that encourage creativity and also give you a little peace and quiet. Choose from the Beach Villa; Airport, Car, Train and Dollhouse Boxsets to suit your 3-6 year-olds unique preferences. Each is portable, practical, stylish and and guaranteed to occupy your little one with hours of quiet fun and imaginative play.

Echidna Kidz Memory Cards keep little minds focused, hands busy and improve concentration. They come in beautiful Australian themes: Dreamtime, Birds and Australian Mammals. A perfect family game to bring out this Australia Day. 

Family game nights are back in style, lots of fun, educational and a great alternative to turning on the TV, especially when bedtimes are a bit later than usual. BrainBox games by the Green Board Game Company are fast and fun memory games that don’t require any pens, pencils, paper, a playing board or even a table! Play them around the dinner table, lounging in the backyard or in the car to pass the time on roadtrips. They come in a huge variety of themes, including, The World, Nature, Australia, World History, Maths for older children and ABCs and My First Brainbox for children as young as 4. 

Enjoy the school holidays this year! There are tons of activities, events and games to choose from ensuring that the words "I’m bored!” will never again be heard from your children’s mouths.