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Question by Shamrock5: What are some activities I can do for fun for little kids & teens in after-school care?
What are some activities I can do for fun for little kids & teens in after-school care?
What are some activities I can do for fun for little kids & teens in after-school care?
I try watching movies with them, listening to music, drawing, coloring, journaling, story-telling, cooking, reading, creative writing, arts & crafts, role-play, & exercising with them, & the teens, especially, aren’t interested. Well, the teens do everything except the coloring. LOL But anyways, the kids range from 6 mos.-17 yrs. Some of them are troubled teens who are in my program to stay out of trouble. They’re not interested in anything. All the teens want to do is illegal activity. I have to call the cops on them a lot. The little kids want to do what the big kids do, & they’re setting bad examples for the little ones. I have to be stern with them, & when they can’t get what they want, they try to tear up the building.
What can I do to make them more motivated & interested in these activies or maybe you can throw in some new ideas. All they want to do is try to be thuggish, ruthless, & cool. Teen pregnancy, alcoholism, drugs, illegal weapons, you name it, they do it.
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Some of them are high school dropouts. I care for them while their parents are at work because they’re not trusted to be at home.
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***Home alone.
***I had to repost this since no one wanted to answer.
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Answer by Dizzy D
what about video games?
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this may seem a little readical but is there a pet they could take care of. brush a horse/ dog , read to someone( old or young) , bring out their caring side. do homework. try makign something with paper mache.- a pinata perhaps. create a chart to document their progress on the wall.
each kid has an area that they are in charge of- that cant get trashed.
In my experience most teens don’t want to do anything that they are told to do. Maybe, if you sat them down and told them you want this to beneficial to both you and them and asked what they want to do? I think you’ve covered about all the activities that everyone could think of. Possibly giving them some responsibility for the younger ones may help. Otherwise, I’d say that teens in this situation unfortunately tend to be uninterested in most things on the surface. It’s part of the nomenclature that you can’t be interested in anything that the athority does or your not cool. If you have the space and resources breaking up the teens so there not near one another may make them a bit more cooperative so they aren’t trying to put on a show for each other.