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When the school holidays roll around it's hard to find the time to keep the kids constantly occupied while you're trying to clean the house, run errands and organise dinner. So it would be handy to have some sort of fun lesson plans for young children so they can learn and entertain themselves when you can't be there.

The best thing to keep kids occupied during long school holidays are crafts. Children can spend hours and hours making fun things like holiday decorations, puppets, kites, clay sculptures, paper mache and paintings to name but a few things. But if you're like most parents, the craft ideas run out pretty quickly and soon enough the kids are running around the house making an awful mess!

The best, most sure-fire way of making sure this doesn't happen is to have a good quality, compressive kids craft book. The best ones will outline lesson plans for different craft items that your kids can easily follow themselves. They have step by step instructions with pictures so that your kids can get about making fun things while you get on with your busy schedule. They also break up craft ideas into different sections like rainy days and seasons because the people that make these books know exactly what will keep a child occupied during these times.

The benefit of this too is that your kids have one central point for heaps of craft ideas, and you don't need to supervise them on the internet while they go searching for something to do. At the same time, you're teaching them reading skills and broadening their imagination.