18 Amazing Hobbies for Kids That Assist Growth and Development

Kids are known to have several interests and high energy levels. If at such times they do not have the right activities, they will resort to destructive measures. Certain really cool hobbies, can help them increase their interpersonal skills and general personality development. Most importantly, hobbies can add a great deal of value to their time and energy.

Rashida Khilawala

Last Updated: Feb 22, 2018

Girl In Kindergarten Class Doing Art Project

Children are born with a natural and primal interest in everything. However, depending on genetics and general nature patterns, they are bound to find certain activities more interesting than others. As such, hobbies for little kids is a great way to keep them focused and busy. In fact, good hobbies have shown heightened academic acumen, as well as general knowledge level.

Understanding Your Kid

It is necessary to understand your child. Parents must talk to the kids at all times, and question and understand the things that influence their kids.

Most of the parents, at times, see their personal unaccomplished interests through their children and become distressed when the kids are passive towards it. You should respect the individuality of kids, and support and appreciate them righteously in all their interests.

Good Hobbies for Children

Reading

Reading is a must for all age groups. Reading is often viewed as monotonous, but what one needs to understand is that reading is a learning experience and is a major factor in shaping your child's life. Instill the habit of reading in your children at an early age and they will thank you for it eventually. There are plenty of books that can cater to the child's varied interests. If disinterested at first, give them books with a lot of graphical representations.

Some all-time favorite books to start reading:

» Enid Blyton Series
» The Adventures of Tintin
» Asterix and Obelix
» Marvel Comics
» Archie Comics
» Hardy Boys
» Adventures of the Famous Five
» Nancy Drew
» Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
» Agatha Christie
» Tinkle and Amar Chitra Katha

Stamp Collection

Stamp collection is great at improving the kid's association skills and memory. In fact, it is also great to improve their general geography-based knowledge. So, they will learn how to associate certain symbols or colors with certain countries. They will remember country names better, as well as their currency, to a certain extent.

Coin Collection

Coin collection is great to understand the fact that different countries have different currencies. This hobby can really make the kid conscious of the value for money and its importance. This hobby is great to imbibe the habit of economizing and saving in the kid, from an early age and also to keep him away from frivolous fascinations. These hobbies are also great to make them more responsible, as they need to keep and maintain their collections.

Cool Hobbies for Children

Balloon Twisting

You can give your child balloon twisting instructions, let him practice for a certain amount of time every day. This will give him a sense of accomplishment and the occasional balloon bursting will make him see the existence of failure. This will make him more secure within himself and give him strength to face the world. More so, there will be great improvement in the kid's dexterity and focus.

Music

Let the kid learn how to play a musical instrument. This will give him an added advantage in his age circle. It will add a talent to his kitty and also add a great deal of confidence to his personality. Music has its way of calming down an individual; hence, this hobby will help reduce the aggressiveness in the kid and give him something to do in his free time. I don't think I need to add that music in itself is enticing enough to teach him focus, concentration and determination.

Model Building

Creative games like Lego and Mechanix unleash the technical creativity in a child and is a fascinating hobby. They can also experiment with making makeshift models of buildings, ships, planes and vehicles.

Origami

This ancient Japanese craft reflects patience and is a great way to hone the child's skills in design and engineering paper crafts. A little complicated at first, Origami is very catchy and grows on you.

These hobbies will require them to be by themselves for some time. Parents need to bear in mind that, they will need their space to get better at this skill.

Fun Hobbies for Your Kids

Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is a great hobby to build a creative side in the kid. It will teach them to analyze the importance of incidences and people. More so, it will give them a sense of reflection. Scrapbooking requires skill and patience, both of which are great if imbibed at an early age in the kid.

Drawing and Coloring

Drawing and coloring pages have been known to help improve the creativity in the child. It helps in improving their concentration and association skills. More so, they will learn how to express themselves freely. These hobbies are great to improve the kid's general understanding of things.

These hobbies will require your supervision in the beginning. However, you need to let them take it from there. Occasional discussion of these hobbies will allow the parents to understand the kids better. Hobbies should also, at times, be done with company around, as competitiveness brings out the best in your child.

Other common hobbies to be practiced under supervision include:
» Photography
» Candle making
» Woodwork
» Cooking
» Sewing
» Doll making
» Gardening
» Trekking
»Fishing

All in all, if kids develop useful hobbies, it'll help them pass their time nicely. It'll help their growth and development in an amazing way. I also urge parents to put a personal effort into it by participating with the kids in their hobbies at regular intervals as it goes a long way. So, this is where I sign off. Have fun with your kids.