School Holiday Boredom Busters

School Holiday Boredom Busters

43 Screen-Free Activities | Ages 4-10 | 68 Pages | Print & Go

School holidays are wonderful for about a day and a half. Then comes the sentence every Australian parent knows: "I'm booooored." This pack is the answer - a whole break's worth of screen-free things to do, using things you already have at home. Print it once, staple it or pop it in a folder, and leave it on the kitchen bench where they can reach it.

No apps, no batteries, no shopping list. Term breaks, wet weeks, long hot summers, the week before school goes back - it all works.

What's Inside (43 Activities Across 9 Sections)

1. Holidays Start Here

• My Holiday Bucket List - 12 ready-made holiday wishes to tick, plus space to write their own. Do it on day one and stick it on the fridge
• The Boredom Buster Jar - 24 ready-made cut-out cards (build a fort from every blanket in the house, race five paper aeroplanes down the hall, make a puppet from an old sock...) plus 12 blank cards so they can write their own
• How to make the jar, step by step

2. Maze Marathon

• 6 mazes that grow with your child: 8x8, 10x10, 11x11, 13x13, 14x14 and a giant 16x16 end-of-term maze
• Every one stars Bilby - home to the burrow, down to the beach, the backyard cubby, the rainy day library run, up to the lookout and the giant holiday maze
• Every maze path is traced out in the Answer Corner at the back

3. Word Hunts and Spotto

• 4 word searches on 10x10 grids, 8 words each: Beach Day, Camping Out, In the Backyard and Rainy Day. Words hide across, down and diagonally - never backwards, so new readers can play too
• Backyard Bingo - 16 things to spot in the yard or the park, four in a row wins
• Out and About I-Spy - a 5x5 card with a free centre square for the car, the pram or the walk to the shops
• I Spy and Count - find and count the hidden holiday pictures

4. Indoor Games

• 9 full games using only things already in your house: sock basketball, balloon keepy-uppy, the floor is lava, indoor bowling, knock 'em down, charades, silly statues, memory tray and who am I?
• Every game has step-by-step rules a seven-year-old can read alone - hand the page over and walk away
• 12 cut-out charade cards, a bowling score card and a paper games tournament page (tic-tac-toe and dots-and-boxes)

5. Treasure Hunt Hq

• A grown-up setup page: pick the treasure, choose your route, hide and go
• 16 ready-made rhyming clue cards to cut out ("I keep your food cold day and night. Look for me, then shut me tight.")
• 6 blank clue cards so grown-ups and big kids can write their own
• Every clue's answer listed in the section answer key

6. Rainy Day, Sunny Day

• 20 things to do on a rainy day and 20 things to do on a sunny day - forty ready-made ideas for whatever the weather is doing
• Build the Ultimate Blanket Fort - supply checklist plus a plan-it-first drawing space
• Colour by Number - a secret rainy-day picture in four colours
• Backyard Nature Scavenger Hunt - 16 things to find, tick and draw
• The Backyard Olympics - six events, one afternoon, one champion, with a score card

7. Draw and Write

• 2 finish-the-picture scenes (At the Beach, and Something Under the Bed)
• A dot-to-dot with a tasty surprise
• 3 story starters with lines to keep writing on
• My Holiday Comic - six panels to fill
• Design Your Dream Cubby House

8. Holiday Memories (Keepsakes)

• My Best Day, What I Made, and My Holiday in Pictures
• The Holiday Awards - 10 award categories to fill in and read out at dinner on the last night
• A Boredom Buster Champion certificate to sign and hand over

9. the Answer Corner

• Every maze path traced in coral, and every word search solution highlighted
• I-spy, colour-by-number, dot-to-dot and treasure hunt answers sit with their own sections

PLUS a How to Use This Pack page for grown-ups, 13 "Tip for grown-ups" boxes tucked through the pack, and 8 "Did You Know?" fun facts.

Who Is This for?

• Ages 4-10. Little ones love mazes 1-3, bingo, I-spy, the colour-by-number, the drawing pages and the jar. Older kids take on the word searches, the giant 16x16 maze, the story starters, the comic and the whole treasure hunt
• Parents and grandparents staring down a two-week break
• Rainy days, heatwave days, caravan parks, grandma's house, school holiday programs and OSHC

Print Tips

• Print the whole thing once and staple it, or print a few pages at a time - the mazes, word searches and drawing pages all work perfectly on their own
• Scissors needed for the jar cards, charade cards and clue cards. Everything else needs a pencil at most
• Laminate the I-Spy card and the bingo card (or slip them in a plastic sleeve) and use a whiteboard marker - then they work every single outing
• Works on tablets too - import into GoodNotes, Notability or Xodo and draw with a stylus

File Details

• Format: 2 PDFs - full colour A4, and full colour US Letter
• 68 pages per file: 43 activity pages plus section dividers, answer pages, a grown-ups how-to page and a certificate
• Instant digital download - no physical product will be shipped

Licence

Licensed for personal use or use in a single classroom/family. Print as many copies as you need for your own children or one classroom. Do not redistribute, resell or share the digital files.

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