Creative Ways to Entertain Your Children off the Grid

Off-the-grid is a lifestyle characterized by not relying on public utilities. Children might have a hard time adjusting to the off the grid lifestyle.

Your kids may love outdoors, but may not be driven to continue in that path of homesteading choices you come up with when they come of age and have their own home.

Fortunately, there are some wonderful ways to add homesteading into your routine with your kids. This involves taking simple but fun tasks that contribute to your lifestyle, using them to train your kids on the importance of independence, self-sufficiency, confidence, and ethical lifestyle choices.Are you homeschooling your kids? If so, you can simply experiment with incorporating homesteading lessons into your child's everyday school lessons. Apart from the values that are associated with teaching a new generation the ins and outs of prepping and living off the grid, introducing your kids into the prepping fold can serve as a great bonding experience between the parent and the child. Even if you live on a rural homestead or you welcome sustainable energy and self-sufficiency in a city setting, there are extrinsic factors that can make it difficult for you to engage your kids and promote the quality relationship.

Amidst work and the stresses that are associated with living off-the-grid, it can be easy to get so busy that you would look up one day and come to realize that your children have grown up when you weren’t looking. One of the ways to teach your children the value of prepping is to involve them in simple tasks that are associated with your lifestyle from a young age.

Some of these simple tasks may include: helping you pick fruits from the garden, gathering eggs from the chicken's coop, helping you pull weeds in the garden. As they come of age, you can give them more complex tasks that involve them in living off-the-grid. Engaging your kids in these kinds of tasks teach your children the responsibility of chores as well as the unique value of living a life in an off-the-grid home.

Off-the-grid lifestyle is not a life of all work and no play. There are a lot of fun activities and toys that can get your kids involved in off-the-grid living. Windmill or solar panel building kits can be of help to your kids in learning the science behind the tools that power your home until they are old enough to help with the real work involved with setting up solar panels or windmills.

You can create these kits by improvising with the available materials within your environment without spending money on purchasing these kits if you prefer that; but these are great, fun activities to try for your kids.