Here are some tips to help you keep your children educated with many fun activities that help with various curriculum subjects as well life skills and interests to keep them busy.
- Keep a journal. Each day spend 6 minutes writing a response to the following points:
I’m grateful for… (make 3 points)
This is how I’ll make today great…
My good deed today…
How I’ll improve…
Great things I experienced today… (make 3 points)
- Stay fit. Joe Wicks 7 days of sweat. Hit link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXmdXilQaqA
Post selfie!
- Photography challenge. Document your time in self isolation in photographs (your mood, what you did, how you felt).
- Cookery challenge. Look in the cupboards. What do you have? Can you come up with a meal idea from it?
- Learn a skill from the internet (for example, learn to juggle. Hit the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZmmOdnljG4
- Learn a magic trick from the internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWw_1-gEdLA
- Learn a dance step (for example “How to moonwalk”). Hit the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYT48mu-TIc
- Pick a type of food that you like and grow it. Get the seeds from a shop (or fruit) and actually grow your food in a pot.
- Make an origami crane (hit the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfnyopxdJXQ)
- Learn some basic sign language (hit the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU8XdJgK3aY)
- Read a book that you haven’t read before. Challenge yourself!
- Pick a household chore and take it over (want to know how to iron? Hit the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnkHbDKnSJ4.)
- Learn how to recycle (Visit “Terracycle”. Hit the link: https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/)
- See how many digits of pi you can memorise.
15. Go online and find a World Record that you can try and break at home (link: https://kids.guinnessworldrecords.com/activities/try-this-at-home/)