11 Christmas Vacation Care Activities for Children

Each term, you’re tasked with keeping kids busy at vacation care. But what if you can do more than that? Instead of the usual indoor and outdoor tasks to pass the time, make these moments memorable with creative and educational vacation care activity kits.

Here are our top 11 options to inspire fun, learning and creativity at your vacation care centre. 

Christmas Themed Activities

Our Christmas-themed vacation care activities inspire the festive cheer and keep your kids busy.

1.   Hanging Summer Reindeer

Craft creative Christmas decorations with our summer reindeer kit. This activity includes a ceramic reindeer, three paint colours and one brush. It’s a fun outdoor activity for kids. They can paint, create and enjoy festive and summer cheer.

2.   Light up Christmas Ornament

Our light-up Christmas ornament is a fun activity for kids five and over. It includes a ceramic Santa and Christmas tree ornament, with six paint colours and seven LED lights. It’s excellent for encouraging creativity and keeping kids engaged.

3.   Santa’s Clay Shop

Santa’s clay shop kit is a creative craft activity for kids of all ages. It’s ideal for creating Christmas ornaments, gift toppers or anything else your kids can imagine. This activity includes safe, shapable, self-drying clays in airtight packaging.

Popular Children’s Vacation Care Activities

Here are more vacation care options to inspire learning, creativity and fun. 

4.   Herb Patch Kit

Plant and grow fresh herbs with our herb patch kit. This fun and educational activity encourages outdoor play and exploration. It includes various seeds, biodegradable pots and a fun garden-themed wordle. Kids can follow our grow guide with basic tips for starting and caring for their herb patch.

5.   DIY Woodwork Kit

Our DIY Woodwork kits are a popular vacation care option. It inspires fun, creativity and learning for the whole family. This activity suits kids five and older with adult supervision. 

Our kits include high-quality, homemade woodwork, glue, nails and a hammer. Woodworking is great for family building and bonding outdoors or indoors.

6.   Origami Kit

Our origami kits encourage concentration and creativity. They’re also great for passing the time and keeping kids entertained. Our kits include 30 sheets of two-tone colour paper.

7.   Wax Candle

Another popular vacation care activity is our wax candle kit. It’s a fun and stimulating task to keep kids engaged and amazed. Our comprehensive kits include safe materials and items for creating scented and festive candles. They’re great for group activities with 10 or more kids and adult supervision.

8.   Wooden Photo Frame

Teach the importance of making memories with our wooden photo frame kit. This vacation care activity encourages creativity with colourful decorations, stickers and markers for crafting memorable photo frames. It comes with a high-quality 13x18cm wooden frame to hold many great memories. 

9.   Glow Friendship Bracelets

Our glow friendship bracelet kits are ideal if you want an activity to encourage friendship and teamwork. These kits include a wheel, various string colours and easy instructions for creating 12 glow bracelets. Adult supervision is required.

10.                Pearl Slime Kit

Pearl slime kits are a great science activity for vacation care. They promote sensory skills, creativity and fun. All kits come with ingredients to make stretchy, shiny slime and are great for group tasks.

11.                Wooden Rainbow Stationary Holder

Get kids excited for the year ahead with DIY rainbow stationery holder kits. These kits include materials to build and decorate a stationery holder. 

Order Your Vacation Care Activities From Built By Kidz

Built By Kidz is a leading manufacturer and supplier of vacation care activities. We offer high-quality vacation care activities to inspire fun and learning at your centre. Our kits are tailored for group work and kids of varying ages. We manufacture and source quality, tested and sustainable activities to ensure safe and enjoyable products.

Browse our wide selection and order your vacation care kits today.