5 Ways To Keep Your Kids Busy At Home
Being stuck at home means free time, and free time means distraction. There’s phones, tablets, video games and TV screens scattered all around our houses. With all these distractions right at their fingertips, keeping our kids entertained should be easy — but it’s not at all healthy for a child’s development.
However, with newer technology like the Learning with Creative Xchange platform, your child can make the most of today’s technological distractions by learning a new musical skill and finding another new passion! Here’s 5 ways for you to flip those hours of unhealthy distraction into a fun learning experience right from your home:
Learn to play an instrument — Guitar & Piano!
Be it Guitar Basics or Piano Basics, the diverse portfolio of professional performers at Creative Xchange can tailor the experience to match a student’s skill level, ensuring the learning process is never too hard, never too easy, and always fun! These 8-week courses cover technical skills, like flats and sharps, or scales and chords, with the goal of applying these technical skills to performing songs. And if that weren’t enough, it also includes important modern world practical skills, such as learning to engage with an audience and planning for the future.
Learn to sing — Voice Basics & Jazz Vocals!
Most kids love singing, whether it’s in the shower or an impromptu performance in the car to school! Learning with Creative Xchange has two vocal courses on offer — Voice Basics and Jazz Vocal — each designed to nurture and develop the voice of your little superstar.
Both vocal courses can be tailored to a student’s learning speed, while covering all the essential basics of posture, breathing and voice health. You can also pick the instructor of your choice and learn from the comfort of your own home, complete with video-recorded assignments and a finale concert where you can virtually invite up to 10 friends!
Learn Digital Art & Animation!
Go from a coloring book to a whole new world full of never-ending artistic possibilities! Graphic design and illustration are common ground practical skills of the near future — help your child leap frog to the top of the talent pool by letting them explore the many realms of creativity Adobe’s Creative Cloud has to offer. Moreover, you can find countless video tutorials available all over the internet to help get started, and this is a fun skill you can also pick up along with your kids!
Workout — Get fit & stay fit!
It doesn’t look like your neighborhood gym is reopening its doors anytime soon — but that’s no excuse to get out of shape! Gym and fitness brands around the world are posting free daily workouts, with options like personal training zoom calls and makeshift homemade weights to complete the experience. Converting a part of the house into a DIY-style gym for the kids to burn off that extra energy while getting fit together with you means there’s no better time to get those kids off the couch than right now. Help instill a fitness habit that could last them a lifetime!
Learn to cook!
There’s no doubt about it — kids love getting their hands dirty. While social distancing means more family time indoors, it also makes for the perfect opportunity for the masterchef in the family to share their secrets and their culinary skills. Whether its rolling out pasta, baking a cake, or even trying out homemade sushi, involving your kids in daily kitchen activities could ignite the flame to a passion for cooking from a very young age. Restaurants, cafes and celebrity chefs around the world have been hosting family cooking sessions, such as Massimo Bottura and his family, as well as sharing secret recipes and ideas that are perfect for you to try out at home with kids.
So while it can be distracting and harmful to young eyes, our constantly evolving technological landscape can also be used to a household advantage, you just need to know where to look! Which ones are you going to try out with your kids? And do you know of any other creative ways to keep your kids busy? Let us know in the comments below!
Get set up for high quality 1-to-1 lessons directly from performers in minutes and get started on your musical journey online. The best thing is you may find a celebrity musician to start learning from. Go to https://www.creativexchange.io/learn
About the writer:
Vansh is an undergraduate from Northeastern University, with a degree in English & Communications. A full-time marketing & branding strategist, as well as a freelance writer & DJ, he is gaining more experience in the arts while being currently settled in Mumbai.
