What do you do with a 6 year old to keep him occupied at home?

He is 6 almost 7 next month. What to do with this age ?

Also baked some biscuits/cookies. I'm running out of options here. The 4 year old is content but my near 7 year old is driving us nuts claiming he's bored

Housework! OH YOU ARE BORED.... LET'S CLEAN THE CABINETS, etc.

My daughter wanted to HELP when she was 2, pushed chair up to do dishes, etc. Neither of my children ever said they were BORED> I would have given them something to do!

Suggest he clean his room or mop the floor or de-weed the flower bed. Any time I complained about being bored as a kid my mom would suggest doing housework and that shut me up real quick!

Put him to work. Have him pull some weeds, fold some laundry, clean his room... In my house, say you're bored, I'll give them something to do. So I don't hear it very often anymore

This is a learning opportunity for your son. He has to learn how to deal with boredom on his own. The problem these days is parents don't let their kids handle small problems like this on their own and what we end up with later on are spoiled, whiney, arrested development young adults who demand others fix their problems for them and who are always running to authority figures to handle disputes and to censor people they don't like.

he needs to EXERCISE like running and jumping as much as possible.
his body craves it and if he plays himself out he will sleep much better.

some games:
jumping, how many times can you jump in a row?

make an obstacle course through the house stuff they have to crawl under, things to jump over etc.

spinning in a circle, how many times can you twirl, or how long can you twirl before you fall down?

have him explore for hidden pennies/quarters youve hidden, he gets to keep what he finds.

tons of games to play
teach him to bake
show him to sew

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Sounds good. He even said earlier he wanted to do a small obstacle course

Kids love games like "hide and seek." They love stories, so make up a really cool story for him.

You could always let him draw or color pictures...

It's not that difficult.

Cut up a bunch of yarn into 5 inch pieces & toss it out in the yard.

Sit the kid infront of the window & watch the birds swoop down to pick up the yarn & fly it up to the tree to build their nests.

Explain to the child how the mama bird will soon have babies & she's making a home for them to live in.

Last Edited by Mental Case on 05/27/2019 09:05 AM

Yes, demonstrate the value of being cleanly by cleaning your place and including him/her in the process. Show how each task is done and do it together.

Also, you could foster his creative side by doing the following. Take a sheet of blank paper & two pencils and sit at a table. You take one pencil and the sheet of paper and ask him to make a small, simple design....could be anything....a straight line, and "x", a squiggly line....anything. Then you grab your pencil and take whatever simple little doddle they made and turn it into a drawing of whatever comes to your mind. When you're done, turn the paper over, make your own doodle and now they have to turn that into a picture of their own.

We used to do things like that when I was a kid in MI when we'd get snowed in for days at a time with no running water or electricity and we'd already read every book in the house and were sick of playing board games. LOL

A few things.

Some simple, cheap and effective ways (you only really need the first three) to keep a kid occupied from bugging you too much are as follows :

#1 a book/box of strike anywhere matches or a cigarette lighter
#2 rubber band/s
#3 magnet
#4 a spring powered mouse trap
#5 drawing pin/s
#5 blow up balloon
#6 magnifying glass
#7 sharp knife, preferably an automatic
#8 cigar cutter
#0... etc.


The list can be as creative as you are.

More exotic items to be included could be chemicals - a can lighter fuel, for example?

I HATE THAT WORD!! LOL I used to tell my kids I'm not their entertainment, find something that you want to do or I'll find some work for you

go outside and do a sport

Yup. Get him outside and running. Tell him it’s either that or cleaning the house or working in the yard like others have said. He’ll learn that if he says he’s bored that you’ll find something for him to do that he might not like too much.

I used to tell my 4 only boring people get bored.

Indulge them with books. Force them outside for an hour a day. Don't watch tv. Read aloud to them.

Be the example.

pretty much!