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All around the world, over 700 million children are attending primary school. For many of these children, their education begins and ends with the school. For those in the developed world, it’s well known that after school activities are vital to a child’s success.

Extra-curricular activities have many benefits. If you’re like many parents, you can’t always count on state or school provided extracurricular activities. They’re great when available, but not always offered or only apply to certain times of the year.

After School Activities

Providing your child with after school activities that help them learn is not a new concept. The rise of the digital age has allowed us to pool together our knowledge and ideas to help each other. With so many benefits and learning advantages, after school activities can make a huge difference in your child’s life.

Here are five extra-curricular activities ideas that will help your children learn and be fun for them at the same time.

1. Write With Them

If you have the time, writing with and helping your child to learn how to write can be very rewarding and link to more than one extra-curricular activities. While much of our communication takes place over a computer screen or cell phone now, writing skills are still very important.

Writing is about more than just putting words on paper. Select a topic your child loves and have them research it. Take them to the library to check out books on the subject and then ask them to write you a paper about it. Writing with your child will help them learn how to read.

This will not only engage their brains fully, but it will give you an insight into the wonderful mind of your child. The way children see the world is unique and different and can bring a smile to your face in spite of what may be happening in your life.

2. Organise an After School Event

If you organise an educational event, you can bring your children and their friends together. Other parents may be willing to help, and you could cover any topic from professional careers to simple educational presentations.

The more effort you put into your event, the more rewarding for your child it will be. Consider getting Tyvek wristbands and giving them out to the attending children. This will give them something to hold on to and remember the event with.

If you set up games or have a carnival-like structure, consider rewarding them with custom silicone wristbands. Children love to win prizes for doing well and providing them with colourful and interesting prizes will keep their attention focused.

3. Grow Something Together

Your child can learn a lot from gardening. If you’re like most of us, you will learn quite a bit too. Gardening helps develop patience, understanding and compassion for living things. It can also help teach your child a usable skill that they can benefit from.

Gardening lowers stress which can help your child achieve greater potential in school. Having something to look forward to, and that doesn’t end quickly will also help your child. Be prepared to be asked every day if the plants you are tending have bloomed, grown or changed in any way.

4. Play Math Games

There are many benefits to teaching your children math. Having a good foundation in math can start at any age. Depending on the game you choose, this can be one of the best extra-curricular activities for 3- year olds and up.

As your child gets better at math, you'll begin to see them performing better at school. Reinforce their progress by giving them study aides and rewards for doing well. A facts-to-wristband is an excellent way to achieve both goals while also giving them useful help.

Visual reminders are excellent for children to learn with. Having a visual reminder on their arm can help them see math equations, and if you put math they are struggling with, they will be able to run through it any time.

5. After School Activities

Make sure you're keeping up to date with all the offerings by your public school. However, even if your school doesn’t offer after school activities throughout the school year, there are other options you can consider. Churches, youth groups and other clubs exist that fill this gap for many of us.

Search for a list of “after school activities near me”, and you will find a list of after school activities available in your area. An excellent benefit to these is the socialisation that goes along with dealing with a group of children they may not know.

Children who socialise often and early are more likely to succeed. Knowing how to deal with people and the problems that come along with that can make a huge difference. To help your child get along, you can even provide multi-colour wristbands as a way to impress the other children or win them over.

Any After School Activity Will Help Your Child

Don’t be afraid to try out new ideas and games that you come up with yourself. You know your child, and even putting in the effort to come up with after school activities will impress them, unless they are teenagers. Even still, anything from sports to do-it-yourself projects can change your child’s life.

Learning Happens All Year, All the Time

Your child will not stop learning their entire life. When we are young, our brains our sponges that are programmed to absorb all the information we can get. Feeding this curiosity with after school activities is important and rewarding.

Whether you need promotional and fundraising merchandise or functional wrist bands to help your children better learn math, we are here to help you. At Handbands, we have helped charities and parents for years now.

If you need any wristbands or any of the products we provide, we are happy to help you make the best of the time you spend with your child and the learning they experience.