We had a saying 'Your boredom is not my responsibility-what would you like to do?'
Than a discussion would ensue about activities and then whether they were feasible or not at that point-ie did we have transport/money for it? Although I always try and say 'yes' in some form or other. 'Yes we can do that when we have the car' 'Yes we can do that, let's think how we can raise the money/find the time'
Many of their requests would be doing things at home. Or they would just go off and invent things/play by themselves.
Boredom does great things for their imagination!
We used to collect games/books/activities/DVDs from car boots/charity shops etc.
Electrical kits and chemestry sets and construction kits were used time after time.
I got the Krampf's experiment of the weeksent free to my inbox-generally using easy to get hold of household obejects, it was a ready made source of interesting things to do.
Lego was fantastic for all of my children.
Older ones built the kits but youngest spent hours building villages-including pubs/post office/shops etc that she thought were necessary for village life.
This has just reminded me, she was mad on the idea of travelling for a while and used Lego to begin to design the van she is going to live in.
We also went off to caravan showrooms and looked at the interior designs-so she could get some idea of how she would fit it all into her ideal van and that led to discussions of scale drawings etc-and that kept her busy for hours.
We did lots of salt dough models. Making and painting them took up long periods of time.
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