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Tips To Prevent #MarchBreakMeltdowns

A few Tips To Prevent #MarchBreakMeltdowns is in order. Because if you are like me during March break/Spring break, you will be in charge of entertainment, while still trying to work and get everything you do in a week done. Yes, there may be TV or gaming or internet time during the week (let’s be honest) but screen time won’t be the caregiver for the week. What you need are some boredom busters to keep the kids busy…just read these tips to prevent #MarchBreakMeltdowns…

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Sometimes, all that stands between mom and a #MarchBreakMeltdown is a toy with enough power to last through playtime. I have a list of battery operated boredom busters which can come in very handy. These items are things you probably already have around the house too!

The bonus about a battery operated item is that you don’t have to worry about cords and cables.

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Walkie Talkies – fun for all ages. Great for role playing “spy” or “police”. Also good for staying in touch while on imaginary adventures to the North Pole or Africa.

Flashlights – fun for school aged kids. Bring it into a blanket fort for fun. Or use for reading a book (somehow it’s more fun to read when a flashlight is involved). Make shadow puppets on a wall.

Portable speakers – fun for tweens and teens. Instant dance party. Karaoke (however if a parent, who happens to be walking by, joins in – it’s instant OMG Mom please STOP).

Print photography fun for tweens and teens.  Give the kids an instant camera like the Fujifilm Instax 300 and they can have fun as long as they have film.

Educational electronics – fun for pre-schoolers and school aged. Listen, learn, play, enjoy. So much fun. Many educational toys integrate music, math, literacy, vocabulary, and more.

Board games like Operation or Battleship fun for all ages. Play by yourself (Operation is great for single player fun) or against a sibling or friend. Great for play dates and busting boredom.

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Disclosure: this post is powered by Duracell. Opinions are my own. 

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  6. Ira says

    Hard to pick just one… I think we have about a million of them 🙂 How about battery operated marble run?

  7. Florence Cochrane says

    I could use batteries to boost the electronic battlefield to play on March Break to bust boredom.

  12. butterflyamyc says

    Our air hockey table takes batteries for the scoring machine. The kids have hours of fun with this

  18. Erika Letson says

    With my kids it would have to be the Xbox controllers! They use a ton of batteries!!

  24. Rosanne Robinson says

    We use a lot of batteries in our X-Box & Wii controllers, flashlights to use in our home made indoor tents, numerous games, remote control for race cars & robots.

  33. Erinn Lishman says

    I use batteries in our radio so I can play music and have dance parties with my kids!

  35. edmontonjb says

    We have a battery operated Hot Wheels race track that keeps the kids entertained for hours
    ~Jonnie

  38. Dawn gordon says

    We have a small flying helicopter and the remote uses batteries ! We use it quite often to kill off boredom

  39. Glogirl says

    I don’t have kids but would use a battery powered remote controlled car to bust boredom.

  41. travelbuds says

    My daughter got Furby for Christmas and I have to admit, I love watching that thing. My daughter loves it so it is perfect to kill the boredom.

  43. Amy Deeter says

    A battery operated item that i use to bust boredom with my kids is “xbox one remote”

  45. Tara Betterley says

    We have battery operated NERF guns that we use in my household to burst the boredom around the house.

  51. misselles80 says

    My kids are loving the wii these days but we don’t have re-chargable remotes any longer so they go through lots of AA batteries lately!

  60. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    My kids are all adults but my grandkids like to play games and I believe there are batteries in the controllers. I myself use them in my remote controls for TV, Shaw box, BluRay player.

  62. sarah alexis says

    We bust boredom with the board game Operation! Just played it last night actually!

  83. LILLIAN BROWN says

    The grandkids go through a lot of batteries playing with remote-control cars at our home

  86. binabug says

    HA , the TV remote (or our computer mice, mouse?) WHERE DID YOU GET THE SPONGEBOB operation from? OMG my daughter is freaking out

  89. Janette says

    My boys love to play with their little battery operated bulldozer and excavator. This mama might “accidentally” turn off the sounds every now and then though ?

  108. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    The TV remote would be a good one, though I never let them watch down here mainly because they could be doing so many other interesting things during the daytime.

  137. Tracy Morin says

    We have some remote control cars and helicopters that my daughter and nephews just LOVE to have fun with. We need to learn how to be careful with the copters in the snow though. I put on another hat—search and rescue…

  145. Rosanne Robinson says

    We use a lot of Duracell batteries in remotes for tvs, WII & X-Box controllers, Walkie Talkies, flashlights, cameras, and wireless mice.

  146. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    Today it was St. Patrick’s Day bead necklaces with a shamrock that lit up with a green light.

  161. Carolyn Flanagan says

    my niece has a dog that sings if you’re happy and she loves it, can dance and sing it for a long time

  163. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    In the evening my grandchildren and I will also use a flashlight to make shadow animals on the wall 🙂

  204. Shelley Butcher says

    We have a huge set of geotracks trains that are great to pull out and set up.

  219. Rosanne Robinson says

    Our X-Box One & Wii controllers go through a lot of batteries and we had a blast with them over March Break.

  220. Diana Powell says

    Batteries for remote controls and gaming remotes are a must to always have on hand.

  232. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    I have 3 remotes that uses batteries for the TV and various attachments 🙂

  246. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    And then there’s the camera that uses batteries too, which they are sometimes allowed to take a photo with.

  256. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    I find that you can have a lot of fun with a flashlight doing various things like shadow games, reading under the bed cover, etc

  264. Sunshine G says

    For some reason, they’re fixated on the speaking French/English dictionary. Weird but educational, I suppose!

  270. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    My grandchildren and I love to make shadow figures with my flashlight, we get some good laughs out of it too.

  278. Betty S says

    We have a Vtech bear that plays music, stops her dead in her tracks because she loves to dance to the music

  279. aliyadaya says

    My boys love to explore the wilderness just an hour’s drive away from our home, so they often use walkie-talkies to stay in communication with one another. And they need batteries for those walkies.

  286. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    There of course also RC vehicles, one from my brother (who was really into RC model building) built for my grandson.

  299. MaryG says

    The Wii controllers eat up batteries and provide hours of fun for the whole family. We love to play ‘Just Dance’ with the kids!

  302. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    My grandkids love playing games on their console – batteries galore are needed of the controllers, I think my son buys them by the ton these days LOL

  327. lncleslie says

    My daughter has a toy similar to a Lite-Brite that uses batteries & also a kids airbrush tattoo machine!