It's summer again and the kids (and their teachers! Woot!) are home! This means loads of opportunities for more family-fun time and memory-making moments. Annnnd more chances for whining, fighting, cleaning up messes, getting burnt out... well, you get the picture.
So here's our summer challenge this year: use a few tricks and tips to create a fun, enjoyable summer for both our kids AND for us. Let's go!
Challenge #3: Register your kids for FREE online summer camps.
VarsityTutor.com is providing free summer camps for kids in grades K-12 this year and they look awesome! My oldest two have already done a few of their free classes and LOVED them, so we're really looking forward to their week-long summer camps.
Most are done in an interactive webinar style: the kids can see and hear the teacher and communicate by typing questions and comments in a text box. (If you are looking for an online camp that looks more like a traditional Zoom call with smaller class sizes, check out Outschool.com. It's not free, but the classes are reasonably priced and look really interesting).
Some of the camp themes on Varsity Tutors:
- cooking healthy snacks
- coding games
- creating a Lego movie
- arts & crafts
- dinosaurs
- fairy tales
- creating Minecraft storyboards
- foreign languages
- theater
- creative writing
- book clubs
- building structures
... and sooo many more.
Tip #1: Check the site each day as they add new classes to their list constantly.
Tip #2: You can easily un-enroll by clicking one button (and no credit card info is ever required, so no worries of getting charged for anything)... this makes it it a very flexible program if your plans change last minute.
Tip #3: You can have multiple kids participate in the same class from the same computer- just sign up one child. The ages are also 'suggested ages' and VT has stated that if a child is interested in a topic, they can join a class even if it's out of their age-range (which is AWESOME for our gifted or special needs students who like to work up or down a level).
Want to continue to create a fun and stress-free summer? Check out all the Summer Challenge posts here.
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