You don’t have to be a teacher to arrange fun things for your kids to do at school. Working together with teachers and school administration, you can arrange lots of different things to keep kids entertained and inject some fun into the school year. You can come up with educational things for them to do that help to reinforce their learning, or perhaps just fun activities that can give them a break from schoolwork. If you work together with other parents and your children’s teachers, perhaps as part of the PTA, you can organize different events and activities that everyone can benefit from.
Arrange a Class Trip
Class field trips are a great way to allow kids to learn in a different way. By getting out of the classroom and away from school, they can learn about their current studies by applying them to the real world. A class trip could take various forms and, as a parent, you could help to arrange one that offers fun and a learning experience for your children. You might have connections that can help you to arrange a fun trip to somewhere interesting or perhaps you can help out with the logistics of the trip, such as arranging transport for the class.
Throw a Class Party
A party for your child’s class is a good opportunity for everyone to relax after a stressful period or just celebrate something important. The end of the school year can be a good time to have one, but you might also celebrate certain holidays or even have one just because. Parents can get together and help to arrange a class party, and could perhaps provide chaperoning and other types of help. You could provide snacks or create activities for kids to do during the party, or contribute funds to help pay for it.
Organize a Class Project
A class project could be something for everyone in the class to do together. It might relate to something they’re learning or it could be a project that offers something fun and different. A class project might take on several forms that will likely need some help from parents. It could be a class book that all the students contribute to. You can see how children can learn from the experience at https://studentreasures.com/start-your-classbook/. Or it could be a class pet that everyone takes turns caring for. Perhaps everyone in the class could grow plants, do an art project, or even put on a play or another performance.
Set Up a School Fair or Event
A school event or fair could be just for your child’s classroom, but it’s also something that you could do across the school. It’s a chance to get lots of different activities going and get both children and parents involved in different ways. You could have parents running stalls for children to visit, whether you’re offering activities or things to buy. Children could also set up their own things to do. Perhaps older classes could provide things for younger children. It might even become a yearly tradition.
Donate to School Resources
Schools are often in need of more resources if their budget doesn’t stretch very far. Even if they have all of the basics that they need, they can find additional resources to be very useful. You could help by providing fun learning tools and resources or by contributing toward a fund for your child’s classroom. You might also consider donating fun things to decorate the classroom or fun things to do during recess or other times between lessons. It can help to make the classroom a better place for all of the students.
Arrange Fun Classroom Visits
As well as arranging field trips, you could consider having people come to your child’s classroom or school for visits. This might include presentations and activities from people in different professions or who can talk to the children about different topics that they can learn about. A lot of schools will invite parents to come and talk about their jobs or you could arrange for visits from people like emergency services personnel, people working in wildlife conservation, or anything else that children might find interesting and that connects to what they’re learning.
Organize Charity Fundraisers
If you want to encourage social responsibility and altruism in your children and their classmates, you could organize some fun fundraisers for charity. This could include lots of different things that kids can do to raise money. They could get sponsors for something, whether it’s running a race or a sponsored silence. There’s also the option of selling things to raise money or perhaps putting on an event with paid entry. You can get the kids involved and ask them what they want to do to see if they come up with any ideas.
Create a Work Experience Day
The chance to get some work experience (or just observe someone at work) can be fun and interesting for a lot of children. While teenagers might get the chance to get some real-world experience, younger children might just find it interesting to see what a workplace looks like and what’s involved in the day-to-day activities that take place. A work experience day could be more of a ‘take your child to work’ day. Alternatively, the whole class could get to experience a certain workplace or people could come to the school for a talk or demonstration instead.
Arrange Some Downtime
All kids need a break sometimes. One of the ways you might want to create some fun in the classroom is to give them a day when they don’t have to do much. They could watch movies or play quietly, instead of having to do their schoolwork. Plus, it gives teachers a break and allows them to have a quiet day too. It’s something you could arrange at the end of the year or whenever everyone could use a break.
Work together with teachers and school admin to create some fun things for your kids to do at school throughout the year.
