Board games are often both fun and educational. Pick one out that you think will be best for the ages of the kids and the number of players. Some great board games include: Twister: encourages athleticism and exercise, and is easy for any grade school child to understand. Chess: teaches strategy and is intellectually stimulating, but can be taught to kids as young as 10 years old. Scrabble: great for improving middle school kids' spelling abilities. Add in a definition element to the game to also strengthen their vocabulary skills. Clue: Combines fun and problem solving for children ages 9 and older. While there are a lot of card games that are too complicated for kids to understand, there are many simple ones that can be fun and help pass the time. Card games like UNO, War, and Go Fish are simple enough for most kids to pick up and enjoy. Arts and crafts are great because they inspire creativity. The possibilities are nearly endless if you just have some basic supplies, such as crayons, markers, colored pencils, paints, colored paper, safety scissors, and glue. Some arts and crafts activities you can do include: Making bracelets with colorful string. Coloring in a coloring book. Fingerpainting with vanilla yogurt (dyed with food coloring). Sculpting with playdough. Another way to entertain kids is by letting them help out in the kitchen. Bake some cookies or cupcakes and get out some pretty sprinkles and colorful frosting. Let them tap into their creativity as they decorate the baked goods. Get the kids involved in the clean-up process as well. Make it fun by putting on some music or even singing a clean-up song with younger kids. Older kids may even be able to help you cook a meal. Puzzles are typically time consuming and stimulating, so it'll keep the kids occupied for a while. Try this activity with some relaxing music before bed to get them into a calm mood. A lot of kids have a great time dancing. As an added bonus, this is another activity that encourages exercise, creativity, and originality. Make a playlist of some appropriate songs that kids love and just press play. This is a great activity that doesn't require any equipment or preparation. Have the kids write down different universally known words or phrases on pieces of paper, fold them up, and put them into a bowl. One at a time, have them take out a piece of paper and then pantomime the word or phrase for everyone else. The person who guesses correctly first gets to go next. Hide and seek involves a lot of mobility and imagination. Have one kid count to 20 or 30 out loud while the others hide somewhere inside the house. After the child is done counting, they search the house for the others. Once the child finds another child, the one whose hiding place was found counts next. Sardines is a fun game that's a twist on hide-and-seek. In this game, one person hides and everyone else counts. Then, everyone looks for the hider and hides with them once they find them. The last kid to find everyone hiding is the next hider. Kids often love video games, and playing them on a wii is great because they usually require a lot of movement while other consoles don't. Some crowd favorites are Mario Kart and Just Dance. Grab some chairs from the kitchen, take some linens out of the closet, and have the kids help you create an awesome fort in the living room. This will take some time and ingenuity. After it's done, have the kids gather inside the fort and watch a movie with them or read them a book out loud. Kids usually like to act like someone they aren't, such as a cowboy or a princess. If the kids have dress up clothes, have them go dress up as whatever they want and then ask them to do a skit or a fashion show for you. If you don't have dress up clothes on hand, give them a few rolls of toilet paper and have them make cool outfits from just the paper.

Summary: Play a board game. Play a card game. Do arts and crafts. Decorate cupcakes or cookies. Do a puzzle together. Have a dance party. Play charades. Play hide-and-seek. Play Wii games. Build a pillow or sheet fort. Play dress up.

This means not going to places that you had experiences with them at, putting away old pictures, and maybe even deleting their contact information from your phone or removing them from Facebook. It might seem rude, but you need to understand that you have to move on in life. Here's one way to think about it. If you're stopped at a red light and all the sudden it goes green, everyone else is going forward with their lives and you're just stuck. You will eventually get hit by another car or fined for staying in the middle of the road. You can move, but it takes effort to put your foot to the gas. Move on. You do not want to be the person stuck at the red light any longer. If seeing them on your home page on Facebook or seeing them on your phone will bring back sudden memories or you will be tempted to contact them, you need to delete them. If you own anything of theirs, now might be a good time to give it back to them if it holds memories or is important to them. If you want to avoid seeing them altogether, you can get a friend to deliver it, or ship it in the mail. Getting rid of things that remind you of them is not the same as destroying things. It may not be a great idea to send all of their belongings up into smoke by burning it in a funeral pyre. It's recommended that you store things, shelving them away, instead of destroying things. You want to temporarily forget about the memories, not destroy them altogether. It can be a stay-cation if you want (late night slumber party, anyone?) or it can be a full-blown vacation, off to an exotic destination. Whatever it is, you deserve it. You're been putting in a lot of work into this, and other, relationships, which means you've earned a break. Taking a vacation doesn't have to mean traveling far. In fact, you can still have a vacation if you stay in the same city. The trick is convincing your mind to let loose and act like you're in a totally foreign place. So meet some locals, go to a museum you've never gone to, and soak it all in. Hanging out with friends, joining a club (i.e. drama clubs, creative writing or book clubs, online clubs, etc.) help a lot. Do anything to get your mind off of him/her. Write song lyrics or stories, do homework, hang out with friends at the mall, watching movies; all of these things work. Make sure that you're not thinking of him or her and there is absolutely no reason for you to encounter them or think about them. For example, if they work at the mall and your friends want to go there, don't go. Stay home and do something else. The whole point is to move on, and for most people who are in love, the moment they see their loved one again or the moment they start to communicate with them, old feelings begin coming back. So make sure you won't be seeing them at all. Try to find a hobby you're interested in such as art, music, writing, books, dance, etc. You can also kill two birds with one stone by trying to get something good done while moving on, such as losing weight, studying or doing homework, practicing for a speech or playact, or earning money.
Summary: Get away from everything that reminds you of him or her until you're over them. Go on a mini-vacation. Get your mind off of him/her.