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How to keep children active all summer with adventure points


Imagine a world in which children are happily damaging and learning while performing activities that they love at the same time and learn mathematics. A place where children compete in kindly by reading sporting activities, creative games and books.

Sounds too good to be true, right?

I have always heard that the need is the mother of invention, and this certainly applies to this idea for adventure points. Have you ever had one of these moments of maternity in which every child needed something at the same time, you had just buried a smoothie everywhere and the baby needed a diaper change?

I had one of these moments and found that I had to take a plan for the summer out of my mental health and the activity level of the children, on which they didn’t watch every day.

We control the system every summer or via breaks. It causes the natural creative and competitive sides of my children to work for the good of all!

What are adventure points?

We already have the “Mama I’m’m Langwrede Jar”, which works really well, but rather helps if you are bored. I wanted to find a way to encourage them to find activities without bored at all.

In short, this is a simple point system for creative or sporting activities that promote movement and creative play on television. It also surprisingly reduced the dispute and fights in our house.

The idea for the name “Adventure Points” came from the hiking boots of my children, which they call “Adventure boots” because they wear them for hiking, the Fort building and other outdoor adventures.

How adventure points work

I sat down with a piece of paper and thought of activities that I wanted to do my children this summer and granted everyone a point value. The children helped me to do brainstorming and we have developed a large list of activities that enjoy them (which neither contain a screen nor a snack). Things like:

  • Bicycles (30 minutes) = 10 points
  • Possipes = 2 points each
  • Lopping-ups = 1 point each
  • Swim = (30 minutes) = 10 points
  • Drawing (30 minutes) = 5 points
  • Preparation of a meal for the family = 20 points
  • Reading a book = 5 points
  • Reading a chapter book = 20 points
  • Fortbuilding = 20 points per hour
  • Fold -origami (30 minutes) = 10 points (great tutorials in this book)
  • Make paper aircraft (30 minutes) = 10 points (you love this book for ideas)
  • Draw with Seitenwalk chalk (30 minutes) = 10 points
  • Read a siblings (30 minutes) = 25 points each
  • Make a annoying task (not on a regular list) = 10 points
  • Play monopoly = 15 points
  • Play Scrabble = 15 points
  • Climb on a tree = 5 points per tree
  • Play battleship = 10 points
  • Play chess = 10 points
  • Water pour the plants = 5 points
  • Play UN = 5 points
  • Play war (card game) = 10 points
  • Previous part = 3 points
  • Play apples to apples = 10 points
  • Play Hopscotch = 2 points
  • Weed garden (30 minutes) = 10 points
  • Play a game with Wiffle Ball = 15 points
  • Run around the yard 5 times = 10 points
  • Jump on the trampoline for 10 minutes = 3 points
  • Make a puzzle = 20 points
  • Make 25 car bikes = 10 points
  • Write and email a letter to friends or family = 10 points
  • Create a scavenger hunt for siblings = 10 points
  • Play Legos (30 minutes) = 10 points
  • Let yourself be caught to do something unexpected and friendly = 50 points bonus
  • Rollerblade outside (30 minutes) = 10 points
  • Listen to a History Podcast = 10 points
  • Take a look at a Ted talk (from this list) = 10 points
  • Observe/make a lesson from Udemy or great courses = 15 points

I thought of about 50 activities that were worth points and assigned to every values. Then I created a list of fun family activities that would be good destinations for milestone points. 100 points would earn a healthy dessert one night after dinner, while 1000 points would make a greater reward such as a special activity, new art stocks or a contribution to something they wanted. (Tip: Use things that you still want to do! This is just an entertaining way for the children to earn them).

I also found that the children are excited to be helpful in the house when I offer “bonus points” to do things beyond their normal responsibility.

After a few days of using the system, I decided to create two separate lists for older children (8+) and younger (7 and below) to meet their skills because the younger children were left behind by older children could still do many pull -ups!).

How to implement adventure points

If you want to try this system (and I would only recommend it!), Here are a few tips for getting started:

1. Decide on activities that work in your house/farm

Make a list of activities that your children want to carry out and break them off if necessary. Find out how much of every activity in the point system you want to use and have a point value to everyone. Feel free to use my list as a start!

2. Decide on rewards

The chances are good that your children are a great motivator, but not from only merit points that mean nothing. Decide which points the children enable to do or earn, and create a list of it for the children. We try to focus on activities and experiences and not on things so that our rewards were activities.

Some ideas for material rewards that promote learning:

3. Pover the points

I realized that the system would not encourage the independent creative period I had hoped for if the children had to check with me every time when they carried out an activity to get the points. I have decided to use the honor system (which has worked very well so far) and earned each child a small spiral notebook to pursue points. In this way, the children follow their points every day and I only pay myself once a day to keep the running values.

I also created a diagram to pursue the points for every activity. You can download a copy here.

4. Enjoy how your children learn and play!

I had really hoped that creating “adventure points” would free part of my time by ending the chorus of “I’m longworld” and “can watch a film”. It certainly has and I’m definitely grateful for that.

I found that I enjoyed watching my children’s creativity even more than my free time, and the older children play with the younger light spirit). The pursuit of the points was also an entertaining and unexpected math thrust for the young children, because I keep hearing questions, such as “243 plus 15 like 258?!” 🙂

It is your turn! What do you make entertaining ways to promote creativity and activity at home during your free time?