Creating a Summer Schedule to Keep Kids Busy

Summer doesn’t have to feel like your life is chaotic and disorganized. By creating a summer schedule to help keep kids busy is a great way to make the most of your summer. Your schedule can be flexible and you can spread out activities and outings to help stimulate and keep them busy.

Summer goes by so fast and it is the perfect time to enjoy the nice warm weather! Granted might be a day or two here and there to just stay indoors, but you can have things on hand to make it a fun day too.

How to Create A Summer Schedule

Simple Routine

Take a moment and create a schedule or even routine you want your kids to follow. It doesn’t have to be a strict layout but items you want them to have completed by a certain time of time of day.

Example: After waking up, get dressed, make the bed, eat breakfast, then brush teeth.

Then for activities, you can put 30 minutes of outdoor playtime, 30 minutes tablet time, etc.

You can give them options or make a list of different activities like creative play, be building things with blocks so that they have a form of a schedule to follow each day.

Activities

When it comes to adding activities and outings to the calendar maybe let your child help. They can help pick if they want to a theme day of fun activities, have more of a lounge relaxed day, and what playtime activities they might want.

When they get to help pick it will really help them to be more open to doing it. Plus if you spread things out and one day does a pool day and the next home activities it will help give them variety and keep them from getting bored.

A Sample of Schedule:

8-9| Basic morning items, get dressed, eat, etc.
9-9:45| Outdoor playtime or building stuff with blocks.
9:45-10| Snacktime.
10-10:25| Tablet time or watch a show on tv.
10:25-11| Free play time to do a craft of play in the room or outdoors.
11-12| lunchtime
12-1| Quiet time or nap
1-3| pool time
Etc.

Below is a Schedule I mad for my family your welcome to use. At the bottom I left the days open so we can fill in if we want to do an outing, like the zoo, museum , or a water park!!

Now if it is rainy or too hot, you can always change the activities for that day. I add structure to the day just like school to make it easier. It’s okay if one day you wake up and completely change the schedule and go do something fun. This isn’t set in stone and your free to change and tweak.

It can just help kids really learn and grow over the summer and stick to a relaxed schedule which helps when school starts back up. I also do like to incorporate learning activities in the summer to help keep their minds learning and growing as well.

I hope this helps you to learn how to make a schedule to fit your summer!