Holiday clubs for kids that aren’t into sports

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What do those of you do in the holidays for clubs if your kids aren’t sporty? Been looking at holiday clubs but struggling to find any that aren’t sports based, my son went last year but hated it, anyone else’s child the same and what do you do for holiday clubs?

Mine goes to a club at a different local primary school - just laid back playing, Lego, book corner, field to play on, arts and crafts, trips to the beach etc. Search your local primary schools and see what they offer as some are happy to accept kids from other schools.

Our school doesn’t have a holiday club I didn’t realise they could go to others I will take a look

Aktiva or similar based at local primary schools.

Some local private schools run summer clubs.

Local forest schools also run summer clubs.

Drama and dance schools also run summer camps here.

I've found dance, art, and wildlife camps for mine. It's definitely harder when they're not into sport though.

Oh there’s Barracudas across the country I think - they’re quite pricey but looks exciting.

Sorry for double post but also just thought check out your local council - mine runs days across the county in various schools/village halls - drama, cooking, art etc. And your council might keep a directory of local childcare.

Check out the local theatre if they run a drama schooL holiday camp. Mine did one as well as one at the local leisure centre that offers lots of arts and crafts and swimming.

Mine have done science / tech / coding / art / forest type ones. They prefer hanging out at home, but that’s not always an option!

Supercamps' general camp has been good - also they do a Lego camp that could be a good fit. Some craft places near us, and places that normally do art classes after school, do holiday camps but they book up very early.

There’s quite a few drama summer camps around us.

Also, try different sports - something like sailing rather than traditional football.

My two do stagecoach for a week, they go every day and do a show at the end. There's one at a local outdoor education centre where they make dens, fires etc. Other than that they do the more general ones that tend to be a mix of games and crafts.

Our school runs a holiday camp full of all kinds of activities, from baking to go karting, so there is something for every kid. We are also sending them to a drama camp for a week and another week it's forest school. We are really lucky in our area as there are so many kid focussed activities around so we are kind of spoilt for choice, but I know from friends in other areas a lot of holiday camps are focussed on sport, which must be really annoying if you have non-sporty kid.

There are a couple of independent schools in our area that host a good variety of different themed summer camps as well as the more common sports ones. I've seen languages, coding/computer science, performing arts, first aid, creative writing arts and crafts etc offered. Not cheap unfortunately, but look like they'd be good. Might be worth you looking to see if there is anything similar in your area.

Our forest school does summer holiday club. They do things like exploring in the woods, building dens, lighting fires etc.

Stagecoach are a drama based club near us, I don't know if they're national.

But you're right, most do seem to be sports based!

Yeh it must be our area most are definitely sports based I will have another look though. Our school is closed during the holidays. We did fry another sports club titled “multi skills” where it said it was learning to use parachutes etc and my son said all they did was get them to play football the whole time 🤦🏻 So he didn’t want to go back so avoiding sports altogether

We run a holiday club, just for this reason.

My daughter really did not like sports and my school did not do anything. Holiday Club Not sure what area you are in. 😎

Music is such a good activity for children. For example, playing guitar is such a good investment in the future. Girls like guys, who play guitar, that is what I get from my experience. Besides, the guitar develops a lot of things in the brain. But beware of music schools that are trying not to teach how to play, but to teach how to write music. As a kid, I participated in such a school and I hated it a lot. If you have to be a musician in your life, you will find out later, and then with an understanding of why you have to learn notes, scales, and so on, you will do it with joy.

I've signed my children up to art classes, own a pony days, a Harry Potter themed club where they learn spells, play quidditch and a lego robot coding camp.