Your children are buzzing with excitement, home from school for two weeks, hopped up on sugary Christmas treats, and buzzing with anticipation for the bounty that will be theirs come Christmas morning. Your money\’s all tied up in the whirlwind of the holiday season, so what can your family do for free that will be fun and you and your children? There are plenty of ideas waiting for you online.

The world wide web is chock full of things to print, directions to follow, and games to play that are free for everyone to enjoy. Introduce your children to the resources that let them search for fun things to do that are safe for them to enjoy. Bookmark some promising sites, and they\’ll soon discover many of the fun, free things online for them to do.

Color for free

The childhood pastime of coloring is a perfect fit for a computer with Internet access and a printer. New coloring pages are always at your disposal. You have much greater freedom to select only the images your child would enjoy when you download and print individual pages, and search engines make them easy to find. Crayola, long an authority on coloring, provides free online a wide selection of categories of images, including animals, cars, and holiday pictures. And some projects let you take your creativity further, with puppets, trucks, and holiday imagery.

Arts and crafts ideas for free

Keeping a supply of pencils, crayons, paint, construction paper and other art supplies will enable your child to create lots of fun works of art by following the projects instructions to be found on arts and crafts websites. The ideas are endless, and you\’ll be amazed at what people come up with. Instead of throwing out an old shoe, decorate them with glue, glitter and sequins to make a pair worthy of Dorothy. Turn a paper bag into a puppet of Santa Claus.

If you don\’t already have a well-stocked art supply cabinet, then you make have to make an investment in materials for some of the projects. But if that\’s what motivates your child to create something, it may be well worth the cost.

Online Games For Free

As much as you like to see them do something creative, the muse may take a break on occasion. Even if your kids spend hours playing games on expensive consoles, they may appreciate the vast, unexplored expanses of free online kids games that are just a web search away. If you are concerned about your child being exposed to depictions of violence in video games, you can take the proactive approach, and bookmark sites with only family friendly content. Leave the games open on the desktop for the kids to find.

Whatever your family is in the mood for, you can put it into a search engine and see what comes up. You\’ll find dozens of fun ways to enjoy family time during the holiday season.

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