What do you 10 year olds do all day in the summer?

[Strong Mama]

Just curious as to what your 10 year old boys do during the summer.Thanks!

[JayGee]

DS is almost 10.  He has friends over or goes to friends' houses, jumps on the neighbor's trampoline, reads a LOT, plays with his sisters.  We go to the pool and swim 3-4 afternoons a week, he takes gymnastics one night a week and goes to open gymnastics another night.  He's really into trampolines, so spends a lot (too much IMO) of time researching trampolines and watching trampoline videos on the computer.  When it's cool enough, he likes to ride his mountain bike or play basketball in the driveway.  He watches a little TV, but not even daily. 

[4evermom]

A lot of online gaming.  There aren't kids around in our neighborhood.  We go on evening bike rides together when it is cool enough.  He plays with legos a bit.  He did a science in the summer program at the library one week.  I'll take him to a lake to swim a few times and we're going to visit relatives for a week. 

[Mirzam]

My boy is 11 and he has been playing a lot of soccer, pick-up games, and tournaments etc. He has also been training three days a week for two hours with the local high school soccer team, at the invitation of the coach, he's a soccer phenom. He has also spent quite a bit of time hanging out with his best friend and playing way too much wii. 

[Melaniee]

Ds is 9 1/2, so I'll answer.

He reads a lot, imaginative play with his sister nicely (hahaha - a bit), practice his violin, draw/art, legos, outdoor play (right now it's just water), sometimes we go to the park (he likes to bring a bat and ball), throwing a softer ball against the stairs indoors repeatedly so it bounces back down for him to catch for roughly the other 6 hours a day. ;)

We used to do more outdoor bike or scooter riding but recently moved and I'm not comfortable with him outside on our new street as it's busier. When we had a big driveway he would do a lot of riding around in the drive way.

We get together with friends about once a week, and two separate weeks during the summer he will have a morning camp.

No video games, online play, television or movies.

[LynnS6]

Plays Wii for an hour or so in the morning till his friends are up.

Plays with his friends -- usually baseball or basketball, sometimes imaginative play. 

Plays with his sister sometimes.

Checks the various sports scores on ESPN.com

Asks me and dh to play catch/soccer with him. 

Plays a bit more Wii sports. 

Plays with the neighborhood kids -- usually some kind of tag game.

Reads before bed. 

[mattemma04]

Ds is 9.He plays with legos.Plays some video games.Uses trampoline or pool in yard.Helps with the animals and garden.Plays with dd and his friend that is over for the summer.We go to the library weekly for books and movies.We go to random places like park,playground,movies,petting zoo,and so on.

[zebra15]

1 week of computer game camp (4 hrs a day)

3 weeks of theater camp ( 2 hrs a day, 4 days a week)

The rest of the summer?

Some days he goes to the 'sitters' and from there the kids go to the city pool for a buck.  They spend a couple hours there.

LEGO'S... so much LEGO

Reading and several reading logs for 'free books'

Swim club - right now 2 nights a week for an hr each time

Swimming at our apartment pool

Watching movies from the library

Taking an online class from CTY- Chemistry this time, he finished up pre-algebra earlier this summer (so basically homeschooling all year long)

Nintendo

Art stuff

Internet surfing

Why the question?  is your kiddo bored?

[phathui5]

Half an hour or so of math

A couple of lessons on www.time4learning.com

Karate a few days a week

Trips to the library 1-2 times a week

Plays with the kids on our street 2-3 hours a day

Chores, lots of chores :)

Reading library books

An hour of Playstation or Wii

Watches a movie a few days a week

Games on www.lego.com

[Heather30ish]

Mine is just shy of 10. He's been doing lots of reading (most recently discovered the Skulduggery Pleasant books by Derek Landy and loves those), lots of video games (mostly Super Paper Mario on the Wii --the heat wave has made playing outside less pleasant than it usually is), lots of playing "spy" with his little brother, building with Legos, staging battles with his knights/pirates, a few playdates where imagination-type games are prevalent, and some outdoor ball/tag/water play. On weekends when his dad is around, he also is getting into model-building and learning to program with Python.