12 activities to do with your children to keep them busy

Spring break is often the vacation favorites of children. The trees are starting to flower and the sun is making a comeback, which makes the youngest want to go outside and enjoy the good weather. But it is sometimes complicated to please your children by finding an activity that delights the whole family.

With the changing weather, it is even more tedious to find a worthy activity that will suit everyone. Because screens are omnipresent in children’s daily lives, outings of all kinds are welcome to make the holidays go by faster. To avoid racking your brain, here are 12 ideas for activities that will delight young and old alike, whatever the weather.

The best outings to take advantage of the good weather

• Visit a zoo, an animal park, a farm

Who says the return of spring means the return of fauna and flora, so what could be better than taking advantage of the mild temperatures to go visit the animals with your family? The immersive animal park Parrot World in Crécy la Chapelle allows children to approach the animals and feed them (ticket from €13). Beauval zooconsidered the 4th most beautiful zoo in the world, also offers superb shows during the holiday period (from €29). The Manimopark educational farmin Tarn et Garonne, gives the opportunity to take care of animals by brushing the horses’ manes for example (from €3).

• Take a walk in nature

In addition to recharging your batteries and getting some fresh air, walks are an opportunity to build a herbarium or organize treasure hunts or family treasure hunts. If a simple forest does the trick, many parks are also very pleasant to visit during the spring period. This is the case of five senses park in Yvoire in Haute-Savoie which has a multitude of aromatic plants (visit from €8) or even the gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny (entrance from €6).

• Let off steam at an amusement park or playing sports

Nothing better than an outing to an amusement park such as Disneyland where the Futuroscope to enjoy the good weather. To help children let off steam, you can also get them to play sports. Cycling, tennis, football… Put on your sneakers and exercise in them! For parents who are short of ideas, many cities offer sports courses. This is the case of the city of Paris and its multi-sport courses which introduce children to several sports. (discover for example the Parisian gymnasiums Energy Kids Academy for children aged 3 and over).

• Learn to have a green thumb

The return of buds and seeds is a good excuse to teach your children gardening. For this, there is nothing like a vegetable garden or compost design workshop. If you don’t have a garden, DIY stores Leroy Merlin also offer gardening workshops from €8.

The best outings to do in bad weather

Bad weather sometimes has its advantages. If you want to organize a quiet activity, the cinema is a good compromise. Kung fu panda movie 4in theaters since March 27, promises laughter and good humor for children!

• Do manual and creative activities

The domain of DIY is a safe bet to keep your children occupied. In addition to stimulating their creativity, manual and creative activities allow them to take their time off screens for an afternoon. Scrapbooking (you can buy one kit from €8.69), salt dough (you can follow this recipe ultra simple) or even the drawing and coloring (you can print some easily) are good ways to keep your children occupied. If you want to push your creativity a little further, it is possible to take drawing classes (like this plastic art workshop in Boulogne-Billancourt) or pottery classes (like this ceramic workshop in Dieulefit) for a whole week.

What’s better than rainy weather for cooking? The holidays are the perfect time to dedicate an afternoon to baking a yogurt cake (following this super simple recipe) or even cookies (by following this gourmet recipe). In addition to making him independent, he will be able to enjoy his delicious dish at snack time.

The Escape Game is a perfect activity to stimulate your child’s reflexology and logic. In Paris, it is possible to enter the world of Oggy and the Cockroaches at Majestic Escape Game or even in that of wizards at the Escape Game Skryptic from Toulouse (from €27 per session).

The best outings to cultivate and learn

• Visit a museum or exhibition

These activities are the best way to cultivate your child effortlessly. The exhibition Art of the Brick in Paris features a multitude of Lego assembled in all its forms (from €11.90) or the famous exhibition on Tutankhamun at Galeries Montparnasse in Paris (from €28). The city of Science is the museum par excellence to delight little budding scientists (from €3.50), while the Louvre Museum allows young and old to discover art in all its forms.

• Do apprenticeships

This is an activity particularly suited to children whose parents work all week. Apprenticeships, while they may cost a certain price, are a good way to mix fun and learning. Music courses, for example, are a very good way to improve your music theory or even your ability to play an instrument (Musicalta offers musical courses in several cities in France). It is also possible to do a magic course at magic museum in Paris, enough to make more than one dream (lessons from €50).

In addition to being pleasant to visit, castles are an opportunity to learn a little more about the history of France and its architecture. The castle of Chambordin the Loire, is renowned for the beauty of the building and its gardens as is the Castle of Versailles and its famous Ice Palace.

• To play board games

It is possible to cultivate your child in a fun way with a microscope experiment kit or one science experiment kit, but also thanks to board games. We can cite the game of Unbeatable and the Trivial Pursuitso that he learns without even realizing it, or even the Scrabblewhich will make him revise his spelling and vocabulary in the blink of an eye.