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You're in the Great Lakes, so unfortunately you don't have tidal waters... kids love to explore the ever changing beaches. Getting them comfortable and competent in a dinghy, kayak etc is great entertainment for them as well as a release for the parents.
It's helpful too if they love to read... long passages and grey days can be spent reading a favourite (or a new) book.
Kites can be fun too, both on shore and off the boat in the right conditions.
Craft supplies that can be used to make "paper boats" and then hold races between the boat and the shore - then they have to row over to retrieve them.
A bucket with a see-through bottom (even a yogurt container modified with saran wrap and tape) to look below the surface.
It takes some thought, but keeping them amused and interested will keep them loving to cruise.
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".. there is much you could do at sea with common sense.. and very little you could do without it.."
Capt G E Ericson (from "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat)
1984 Fast/Nicholson 345
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