{"id":781,"date":"2017-12-14T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/?p=781"},"modified":"2017-11-15T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:31:35","slug":"cheap-ways-to-entertain-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/2017\/12\/cheap-ways-to-entertain-the-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap ways to entertain the kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">On half term holidays, you&#8217;ll probably hear your kids utter these words: &#8220;I&#8217;m bored.&#8221; Rather than let them turn on the TV or play video games, try any of these free or cheap ways to entertain them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Plant a garden.\u00a0 Kids love planting seeds in the spring and watching them grow through the summer.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Have a water balloon fight. Let the kids toss water balloons at each other or you.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Go bowling.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Watch birds. Go into the garden and try to identify as many birds as possible.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Create a water park in the garden.\u00a0 Fill the a paddling \u00a0pool, and let the kids have fun cooling off on a hot day.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Take a bubble bath outside. If the kids are tiring of the paddling pool, make it fun again by filling it with bubbles &#8212; and throwing small toys in for them to find under all the foam.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Visit the public library. Public libraries often offer free summer reading programs that include workshops, movies, children&#8217;s theatre, puppet shows and more.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Start a book club. Create a summer reading list for your kids, then discuss the books after they read them. Invite their friends to participate, too.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Listen to a concert in park. Many cities have free summer concert series during the day or evening.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On half term holidays, you&#8217;ll probably hear your kids utter these words: &#8220;I&#8217;m bored.&#8221; Rather than let them turn on the TV or play video games, try any of these free or cheap ways to entertain them. Plant a garden.\u00a0 Kids love planting seeds in the spring and watching them grow through the summer. Have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/2017\/12\/cheap-ways-to-entertain-the-kids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cheap ways to entertain the kids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,59],"tags":[53,64,61,93],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ideas","tag-kids","tag-organise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}