do your children do any extra curricular activities?

[NordicPrincess]

if so what do they do?

my son is 4 and wants to play the drums so i am waiting for the music teacher to call back and book a free one off session to see if he likes it. im also taking my 20month year old daughter to gymnastices once a week soon

DD age 4 does wimming twice a week at the moment. Ds age 2 does nothing.

yabu (or is this in the wrong place) ! Chill while you can

DS1 (aged 8) does:
Football
Hockey
Piano
Craft club
Dragon sports (lots of different sports eg cricket, rugby, basketball etc)
Choir (well he did last year, we find out tonight if he has a place this year)
http://www.urdd.org/adran.php?tud=17&lng=en Urdd

DS2 (6) does:
Football
Craft club
Dragon sports
Urdd
and will be starting piano lessons this year

DD (4) does:
Football
Craft club
Dragon sports
Urdd
Horse riding

Both mine (3 & 16 months) go swimming. Both go to Baby Ballet & my 3 year old is on a cookery course at the moment. If they show any interest we'll send them to piano when they are older.

sorry, link didn't work: Urdd

dd1 and 2 (4 and 3) do gymnastics once a week

We do a fair amount I guess, although I'm sure not as much as some!

DD1 (7) does:
Swimming
Piano
Ballet
Theatre group (monthly)

DD2 (3) only does a music group with me on a Friday morning at the moment, but I'm sure she will do more as she gets older.

Is your DS in reception or still at pre-school? I know that some people like to ease right off with extra-curricular stuff for at least the first half of reception, to give the kids a chance to settle into school.

5 YO
Gymanstics X2
Cheerleading
swimming
Rainbows
violin
dance (run by the school straight after school)

Mine do swimming, Brownies, Music Club, Art Club and singing lessons. I worked out I spend over £100 a month on extra-curricular activites but feel really guilty if I don't. They really love them and so I have to find other ways to save money.

DD age 7

Swiming
Mermaids (synchro for little ones)
Brownies
Horse riding

DD age 5

Swimming
(offered him football but he's not interested)

DD 18 months so a bit young yet but we do go to a music group and I take her swimming.

DS is 7 and does swimming and Beavers outside school; has piano lessons and goes to karate and rugby club (this term) inside school.

He used to do riding but has given that up.

DS 6 goes to Beavers once a week and sometimes goes to a football drop-in on Saturdays. He was doing swimming too but we had to stop that when he was ill last year. Just waiting to see how his health goes this Autumn before talking about doing more.

DD 3 goes to Monkey Music once a week.

Personally, I think you can do to many extra curricular activities. They need time to relax, play with friends etc.

my son is 4.5, he has just started reception and used to go swimming at the weekends with us. I am going to take his to drum lessons, its half an hour once and week. if he dousnt like it wel stop, im not really so keen he becomes a musician, just to encourgae his enjoyment of music and to familiarise him with instruments. I used to take him to gymnastics and he loved it but ideally if such existed id take him to athletics as he loves to run and getting rid of that energy would really help him.

I am going to be careful with him the first half of reception though as hes already quite tired and hes only done half days this week

DS (4) has just started football and it going to be doing tennis, French and possibly drama. I'm lucky that a friend can take him to these with his own DS as I work full-time and woulnd't be able to.

DD (2) doesn't do anything at the moment although I take both of them swimming at the weekend.

Ours do 2 activities each, not including school clubs which don't require any ferrying around/cost anything:

dd1 (7)does trampolining and brownies
ds (5) does swimming and a church club (soon to change to Beavers)
dd2 (3) will do swimming from Easter

That's it - it just costs too much money and it's nice to have a few days when we can just go to the park after school!

That sounds sensible Nordic Princess.

dd has swimming once a week
ds1-film making club,textile club,film club.
ds2-film club and gardening club.

ds1 aged 5 does football and swimming.
The rest of the time is spent with friends/park and me!

DD has just started reception and does dancing after school on Monday. Is about to start Rainbows as well.

DS is 6 and does Beavers.

Might investigate swimming again at some point and he is also keen on learning to climb walls (there is a climbing wall near us and you can learn how to climb when you are 7).

dd does a lot and I find the older they get, the more time it takes up. Swimming becomes 3 x week instead of 1x after they have the skills. Music involves orchestra as well as lessons, plus practice and extra rehearsals for concerts. Same with choir. After some time they get additional voice training, plus all the rehearsals for concerts and then trips away. Just all adds up so at some stage you end up doing fewer different activities but spending more time on the ones you do IME

Dd is 4 and just started reception. She does ballet once a week after school and swimming lesson on Saturday morning.

dd (8) does

swimming
art
brownies
gymnastics
horse riding
cookery
choir
guitar
piano
recorders
flute
violin
hockey
netball
film club
school council
school radio
school newspaper roving reporter
tennis
ballet
modern dance
tap
textiles club
show choir
book club
girls football team

do you think that's too much??

ds's out of school activities are

picking his nose
lying on the floor trumping

DC are 4 and 5.

They do nothing.

DD likes to play on her own after school, with toys or on the Cbeebies games website.

DS has just started reception. DH would love him to start rugby when he's 5

Ds not DH!!!

DS (nearly 6) does swimming and judo. He wants to start learning the piano so I'll add him to the waiting list for lessons at school (lessons will still be in school time, although he'll have to practice at home).

DD (2.5) doesn't do anything organised.