Top 5 timeless activities to enjoy with grandchildren
Grandchildren love to spend quality time with their grandparents. Here are the top 5 timeless activities enjoyed by all!
1. Baking
Baking is a fun, creative (and yummy!) way to spend time with a grandchild. Pass on a treasured family recipe to the next generation, rustle up a favourite food together, or experiment by adding your own twist on a classic. Kids love to make tasty creations and it’s a great time to practise counting, measuring and following instructions.
2. Crafting
Crafting is a great way for children to hone fine and gross motor skills, hand eye coordination and observational skills… It’s also really fun! Take some crafting inspiration from the toucanBox activities blog www.toucanbox.com/activities
3. Board Games
Time for some friendly competition! Board games are a great way to pass a rainy afternoon, they’re also ideal for practising strategy, numeracy and the art of being a gracious winner/loser!
4. Gardening
Gardening is proven to be beneficial to our mental health, so help your child flex their green fingers. Choose easy to grow plants (like sunflowers or radishes) and plant them together. Gardening is a fantastic science experiment for kids as well as an all important lesson in nurturing and care.
5. Reading
There’s no better gift than reading. Pass on your favourite childhood book or read your grandchild’s favourite book to them. Engage in conversation, ask why they like the story and which characters are the best. You can even encourage them to imagine a different ending to the story and get their creative juices flowing.
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Gift good old fashioned screen-free fun this half-term with toucanBox, the arts and crafts subscription for curious kids.
Think about your best memories as a child. What were you doing? Building a fort? Cooking with grandma?
Virginie Charles-Dear, toucanBox founder and CEO, still remembers making a force meter out of rubber bands and paperclips with her Dad. It’s these timeless, treasured memories that sparked the idea behind toucanBox.
Developed by educational experts, toucanBox delivers creative crafts that unleash children’s imagination, develop essential skills, and inspire memories that last a lifetime. Each box is personalised with your child’s name and delivered through the letterbox. toucanBoxes are jam-packed with everything you need to make two exciting crafts together, plus a sticker sheet and magazine with experiments, recipes and more to keep little minds curious. toucanBox is delivered every month, so it’s the perfect way to regularly treat grandchildren to something extra special.
Each month you can choose two crafts from a huge crafting catalogue to suit your child’s age and interest. Little ones are so excited when their very own post drops through the letterbox and they’ll love diving straight into their crafting adventure with you, to make memories they can cherish forever.
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