Beating the heat and the boredom this summer

Discover fun and refreshing activities to beat summer boredom and heat, making your holidays enjoyable and engaging.

School’s out for summer! And that means no homework, no deadlines to run behind, and plenty of free time to whatever you want. But with all this free time comes the question: What’s a good way to spend three months? Asked and answered.

You can even opt for simpler hobbies like making collections, journalling, and observing birds. Hobbies don’t have to be necessarily artistic.

Candle making. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

The kitchen can be a fun place to learn to prepare your favourite dishes. Ideally, you’ll want an adult to help you. You can learn to make treats like fruit popsicles, cold sandwiches, drinks like buttermilk, lemonade and fresh fruit juices, smoothies, and salads.

These activities teach basic cooking, which is a very important life skill on its own. You also learn about hygiene and nutrition, as well as the various flavours and ingredients, bringing up a curiosity about food. And, it can also be a great family bonding activity.

A summer holiday is here,group of children are busy preparing ‘kootanchoru’ under the shades of a tree near their house at Thondanthulasi, near Katpadi. Kootanchoru means cooking rice together, where ingredients such as rice, vegetables, greens and utensils were cooked and shared among them. | Photo Credit: Venkatachalapathy C/The Hindu