How many activities does your 5 year old do?

[manderleydreams]

DD is 5 (year 1). She currently does swimming on a Monday (lesson) Horse riding on a Friday straight after school and a gymnastics class on a Saturday.

A while ago I put her on the waiting list for our, very in demand, Rainbows club. I’ve just had an email to say that there is a space for her to go on a Wednesday 5.15-7.00

DD really wants to go to this too but I’m just not sure. Is it too much? It seems a lot in a week to me at 5 years old.

I’ve asked if there is anything she doesn’t want to do anymore (secretly hoping gymnastics as it’s very early on a sat morning!) but she says she enjoys them all and doesn’t want to give any up.

My other concern is that Rainbows finished at what I think is quite late.

I also have a 5yo dd in yr1

She does ballet (her request because dd1 goes) and swimming, both weekly after school (non negotiable in our house!). She started a parent and baby gymnastics class as a 1 year old so we have progressed through the stages and she now attends squad sessions on a Saturday morning. She starts Rainbows this week (ours finishes earlier at 5:45.

She enjoys them all and is excited about Rainbows, she has the option to stop the ballet and gym at any time but has shown no sign of wanting to doesn’t seem overly tired in general

I mean the swimming is non negociable, not the ballet as well

Dd does ballet, swimming and lego club. I’d happily let her do a club like Rainbows top if she asked though.

Play it by ear. If she is happy and not exhausted, then do all of them.

DS at 5yo did swimming (Wednesdays after school) and Judo (during lunchtime, Tues/Wed). He got bored of judo so it was dropped. He hasn't picked anything else up.

So your daughter will be doing a very similar amount to mine. Maybe she will be ok then.

Wish the Rainbows finished earlier though-7 seems quite a late time for a 5 year old but I assumed it was common for girl guide things to end so late.

My 5yo DS1 does swimming on a Saturday morning (also non-negotiable here), followed by tap and ballet.

Monday he does tap and modern
Tuesday he does an arts and crafts group followed by ballet
Friday he does football

He wants to start an instrument but I'm not sure where he'd fit practicing into his current schedule!

If he wanted to do anything else on the Wednesday or Thursday I'd have no problem. I loved Brownies so I'd be fine with him doing something like cubs/scouts as well.

Violin twice a week (he’s been playing for 2.5 years now) on his own request. He wants to play the clarinet but I have said he needs to wait.
This also includes an additional orchestra session once a week. All this during the week.
Then swimming and gymnastics over the weekend.

My 5 year old does swimming and a school art club straight after school. Woodcraft Folk after tea (different day) until 7.30, and we’re just thinking about whether to put him down for Spanish on a Saturday morning, as he’s really interested in other languages.

It seems a lot - I didn’t do nearly as much as a kid - but it feels necessary to put this sort of thing into his week as school feels way to structured, even at Y1. My main regret is that we only have Monday free for afterschool play dates etc., so they don’t happen as often as I would like.

We don’t keep anything too late. The latest thing he does is violin on a Thursday from 4:30-5:15. We try and maintain a 7 pm deadline for bed during the week otherwise he gets too ratty.

Currently swimming, gymnastics and ballet for dts and dtd. They normally have football but we are temporarily without a coach. Thinking of rainbows for dtd and cubs for dts as they turn 6 very soon. We are all tired already though so not sure

Jui-Jitsu on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, swimming on Wednesday and Saturday mornings and football on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Piano two evenings a week with his dad. He's got bags of energy though and school is only from 1-5.30 pm so we have more time to do other things.

In Year one she did karate twice a week, Rainbows one night and swimming on a Saturday. She managed and she’s a very determined young lady so insisted she’d be fine, which she was. You’ll probably find that she’ll start to drop activities, and maybe try new ones, as she gets older.

My DS (5) in yr 1 does
Mon: swimming
Tues: Beavers 6-7pm
Sun: Gymnastics
He wants to do a school club too but I'm not too sure

DD does drama, gymnastics and dance after school and swimming at weekends. I think it's plenty tbh, if she wants to try something new then she will need to drop one.

At least one of her free after school afternoons a week is normally a spontaneous playdate, and I like that she is able to do that.

We keep weekends free apart from swimming Saturday mornings so we can do stuff together as a family, usually cycling, walking, kayaking, camping outdoorsy stuff.

I wouldn't mind her doing more stuff if it was pay as you go, but most kids clubs are pay per term which effectively ends more spontaneous activities. I prefer to go with the flow a bit.

In school clubs: running club on Wednesday lunchtime, dance club Thursday 8-9am
Outside school - just swimming but on waiting list for Beavers.
He’s 6 in June,