Activities help for 10 year old boy - what does your son do ?

[lisalisa]

My son who's 10 suffers terribly from boredom . Not helped by the act that we are a bit girl heavy and lots of dancing and ballet going in - I'm not good at thinking of boys activities . Apart from the obvious martial arts , what other activities could he do out of school and particularly on Sunday's ? He trains with a footie team once per week but unfortunately isn't quite good enough for the team ( which is a shame as the matches would mean Sunday's sorted for him ) and has tried martial arts and doesn't like it. He's a very competent swimmer having had years of lessons and doesn't want a weekly swimming lesson anymore either.

All suggestions very welcome

[SevenSeconds]

My 10yo DS does football, cricket (indoors so carries on in winter), cubs (will move up to scouts soon), piano, tennis and swimming.

If he loves swimming but doesn't want a weekly lesson, could you find a swimming club so he could enter competitions etc?

[GasLightShining]

If he loves football I would look for a lesser team where he will get matches. Probably wrong part of the season to be looking so that may need to be put on the back burner for the time being.

Maybe something to consider when he is older but he can become a football ref at 14 (not sure how much it cost now but the course was £100 a few years ago).

[uhoh2016]

Is he musical in any way? What about learning the guitar? If he's out going what about Drama classes. I agree 10 is a difficult age they're at the start of the sulky teenage years. You might find once he starts high school he gets involved in different after school activities

[MrsRedFly]

Hockey would be a good team sport (& not nearly as competitive as football)

[RudeElf]

Locally we have

Dance (hip hop/street)
Young archeoligists
Arts and crafts clubs
Scouts
Guitar/tin whistle classes
Drama group
Youth club (with loads of activities for £1)
Running club
Volunteering for conservation charity
Volunteering for viking charity
Volunteering for museum (restoring railway)
Swimming
Martial arts
Gaelic
Football
Horse riding

[lisalisa]

Thanks everyone. We've started ds at badminton sessions now - 2 hours at local sports centre with tuition and matches and he loves it . He's also started judo once at same sports centre . After saying he didn't like martial arts he decided to try this and really likes it . He plays footie once per week after school too so that's enough for time being I think