It can be a challenge for parents to entertain their children in the summer. School is out, learning has stopped, and play mode is in full swing. Sending your children to summer camps can be expensive and only last a week or so which makes that option a temporary fix. Family vacations are also fun summer activities, but like summer camps they only last a limited amount of time and can be too expensive for some families. There needs to be activities for your children to do when they aren’t on vacation or at a camp. For families that live in places where the temperatures reach the triple digits, it can be difficult to find an activity to occupy your children during the day when playing inside is the only option. When looking for inside toys and games to beat the summer heat, look for learning toys and games. Parents want play time to be fun and educational.

A lot of inside toys are designed as learning toys. When looking to buy your children inside toys, good choices to consider are building blocks, puzzles, or small play sets. Building blocks are a great choice because they allow your children to let their imaginations go wild. They can be used to build tall city sky scrapers, doll houses, and train stations among other things. Blocks can be used to count, learn basic math like addition and subtraction, learn colors, and some even have alphabet letters on them. Puzzles come in hundreds of different sizes, shapes, pictures, and are even put together to become 3D. If you want to buy a puzzle that your children can have fun putting together while learning at the same time, look for puzzles that have pictures of maps, historical sites, or famous land sites like the Grand Canyon.

If it’s not too hot for your children to play outside, there a lot of fun games and activities that can be entertaining as well as educational. A fun way to connect with your children is to teach them games you played as a kid like hop scotch or tether. You can create fun scavenger hunts for your children to do outside that can also be educational. Use clues that they can learn from. If you have the time, and there is a state park near you, take your children on a hike. A lot of hiking trails have information stops that explain wildlife that habitat the area or about plants and trees in the park. There is so much to do outside that you should save money for buying inside toys.

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