Educational parenting activity tips. Your no screen solution?

We love this! Finding screentime alternatives for our kids is often challenging. As parents, we want to guide our kids in developing their interests and often have no idea how to do so.

I plan my kid's activities at home, which helps with time and budget management using our app Livada. I use a combination of online and offline activities. I use education apps for screen time, and offline I find activities my kids can do independently that interest them. For example, building with cardboard and recycled materials, painting, or even doing a scavenger hunt in the garden.

I’m a big fan of non-screen activities, which inspired me to create Learning Babies: a free website that contains activities for babies organized by age: learningbabies.com

Learning Babies goes back to basics by using simple toys and real world objects. Simple activities means endless possibilities.

It is a cool truck I must say. I don't have children as yet but my brother and his wife do a lot of games to teach and educate my nephew. Its interesting that he is learning a lot from this.

The best way that works for us to disconnect with the screen is to go out of the house, take a walk, go eat outside.

My website https://pointwize.com/ is open for posting your stuffs if you are interesrted.

If you just have one kid it’s harder (I have four, always home educated, with no screens for the bulk of the day when they were younger, so they just played together all day). Mine have enjoyed making their own books (cardboard covers, paper inside, maybe sewn up the middle, or coil bound is fun), colouring, drawing, reading, all sorts of construction toys (Lego, blocks, train tracks, k’nex, cardboard and duct tape), dressing up stuff. Electronics sets like snap circuits sometimes. My youngest was really into making chain reaction machines around 5.

I find some targeted all together YouTube viewing (not free access!) can be good for inspiration - josef’s machines, Colin Furze, mystery Doug, Lego masters etc are all good for sparking off ideas (not always achievable but they can design!) . Then lots of unstructured time and some basic materials to do with as they will.

Reading, lego, bionicles, audio books, garden play, wooden open ended play toys (wooden blocks and other things from Grimms & Grapat), dolls, crafts, making stuff...encouraging siblings to play with each other.

Trip out for a walk, to the park, scootering.

Reading books, Legos, various types of art (pencils, pens, color pencils, watercolor), free play in the backyard. These are activities that they will do on their own for an almost unlimited amount of time without any adult supervision.

In terms of backyard play, sometimes is random and unstructured. Sometimes they play tag, hide-and-seek or football/soccer.

We've tried other activities like origami, paper-airplanes, various crafts, and cooking. These are fine but often require an adult to help, and/or they do it once and have fun but don't have the interest to repeatedly do it.

I know you asked for non-screen activities, but we allow our kids to use computers/ipads freely as long as they are making something, which includes coding in Scratch, writing short stories in Google docs, and drawing in Procreate. They do these activities in the open so we can make sure they're not playing computer games or watching YouTube videos.

What is your business, maybe I can think better ideas from what youre trying to sell.

Lego, fun toys that encourage them to move around and interact with other people. Build a boat, or tree house... come on these are easy