School breaks offer a great chance to engage in family activities. Whether those activities are home baking, sharing books or movies, or visiting local sites or relatives, they give families a chance to spend quality time together around the adults work schedules. In winter those breaks might include special activities such as playing in the snow, tubing, snow boarding or skiing. It’s a chore to pack everyone and everything you need for such outings, but they produce lasting memories and may even become traditions across multiple generations.
Closer to home, families might explore neighboring towns. It can be a time to visit their libraries, museums, bookstores, restaurants, malls, and parks. It may initiate a collection of postcards that can become part of a child’s future ‘sharing’ at school or a page in a scrapbook along side photos taken on the trip.
Even closer, and in home, the winter break is an opportunity to cook together, start a new craft or hobby, work a puzzle, share books and games or just ‘kick back’ and enjoy time at home, together. And, if a new tradition slides into your break, all the better.