What do you do with your kids when school is on break?

I wouldn't feel bad, my family has been tight on money for the past year i've been off work. For spring break we went to my home town to visit with family and got the kids some time to run off the steam. Playing outside and just spending good times with your children is always enough to build life time memories. Feel great knowing you spent time with your children and didn't let them waste there break away sitting around the house watching movies and playing video games!

We don't go anywhere during Spring Break. We save up our money and take a nice trip during Summer. This Spring Break, we spent some time at the park. My son is 11 so the park is not fun for him anymore but he just got a skateboard so he spent his time learning how to control it. I took a nice picnic lunch and we did that for 3 days. We live on a hill so he can't skate here because the road is so steep and dangerous! I also took him over to the Book Store and he looked around for something to buy and then took him over to Video game store where we window shopped. I really don't think it bothers him that we stay home. He likes that...staying home and enjoying time away from school. You're are lucky have kids who understand.

My son is on Spring Break from April 9th and doesn't go back to school until the 20th. Usually, we don't do much this time of the year because my husband only get's so much vacation and we hate using it so early in the year. We are only planning on taking our son to see a movie during his break. Doesn't sound too fun, but that's what we can offer for him right now. We have friends who live 3 hours away from us and their little girl was on spring break last week, so we met them half way at our state zoo, and spent the day with them so the kids could play, so that will be part of his spring break treats as well. My son's spring break also falls over Easter, so he will get to go to the Easter egg hunts and such, but those things are yearly and we always do those. I think you got to do alot more than more will be able to afford this year. Feel lucky, and just enjoy those days with the kids.

Hi! Good thing your kids can understand your situation so you are already very lucky in that aspect. With my own kids, I usually send them off for a mini vacation with their grandparents for a few days to a week. When they get back, they usually have some new toys that keep them occupied and happy for a few more days before they get antsy again. Don't you have neighbors with kids about the same age as your kids? Usually, unstructured playtime with neighborhood kids are more than enough to combat boredom. My kids can play with neighborhood kids daily the whole summer and they are quite happy with it. Don't feel bad! A lot of moms out there are worse off than you.