Twelve Fun Ways To Teach After School

1. Coach or help with a child's sport or activity.
2. Enter a parent-child contest together. Some dance studios feature parent-child performances. Or does a moonbots challenge sound more up your alley?
3.  Read the book I Love Dirt: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature, by Jennifer Ward. Pick your favorite activities and do them.
4. Plan a trip to the zoo. Or anywhere, really. Use Notebooking Fairy's K-W-L worksheet to help your children think about what they already know about the place, what they want to know, and, later, what they learned. 
5. Make homemade applesauce together. Be sure to ask ahead of time what ingredients you will need. (It's fun to think of making something out of just two or three ingredients.)
6. Make up a new language with your child, or a written code just between you.
7. Make a special field trip out of your child's passion. For my son, that would be a trip to a Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament or another tour of Narnia: The Exhibition.
8. Set up an email address for your children and help them compose emails back and forth to grandparents or other relatives or family friends.
9. Play Music-Back-And-Forth. First your child gets to choose a song to play - the louder the better. Next it's your turn to play a song you really like. Repeat. The last person to stop dancing is the winner.
10. Make up a story together. Someone starts it with a few sentences, then lets the other person continue the story for another few sentences. Take turns. You may want to have someone else typing or recording your shared story for posterity.
11. Announce Spanish Week (or any other language you want). All DVDs must be watched in Spanish or with Spanish subtitles. Try to listen to Spanish music all week. Make recipes all week long from the cuisine of Spanish-speaking countries.
12. Start a Charlotte Mason Book of Centuries. From now on, whenever you talk about, hear about, or read about something interesting happening on a certain date, enter it in the Book of Centuries.