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If you looking for some fun ideas to keep the kids busy and engaged whilst staying home to stay safe you’re in the right place.
One thing a lot of us may be forgetting during this stressful time is that children’s creativity and imaginations are geared to play and create.
Children learn through play.
When playing and creating we only need to provide a few essential core ingredients to begin with to provide an open-ended play experience. With a few simple ingredients that we provide, and with their imagination children can, and do, create inspirational stuff.
Here are 170 ideas to keep and your little ones entertained and engaged together.
Remember the challenges we’re facing won’t last forever.
Embrace this time, the special moments created during the stay at home era will soon become treasured times. It’s these moments that create memories that children will talk about with their children and handed down through their families for generations to come.
Enjoy!
- Hand make birthday cards for friends and family
- Post a handwritten letter to Grandparents, friends and family
- Everyone loves an indoor picnic – invite all your favourite teddy bears
- Create a bucket list of things to do after the quarantine period
- Create play ideas with a washing basket
- Make a DIY pet toy
- Have a 70’s Fancy Dress Dance Party
- Cooking something – take turns to prepare and make meals
- Bake cakes and cookies
- Build a cubby house using blankets and pillows and chairs
- Have a movie day and make your own popcorn
- Bring out the old board games
- Paint a picture
- Learn origami
- Make your own puppet and put on a puppet show
- Play hide and seek
- Make paper aeroplanes
- Read out loud
- Make your own play-dough
- Dig up the old jigsaw puzzles
- Indoor scavenger hunt – give kids a list or if children to young draw pictures for them
- Put on some music and make up a dance
- Make papier mache creations
- Colour in colouring books
- Play balloon volleyball
- Make an indoor obstacle course
- Good old fashioned card games – Go Fish, Snap
- Create a Tik Tok dance video
- Learn a magic trick and put on a show
- Draw with chalk on the driveways or nature-strip
- Make your own jewellery using beads and string
- Write a poem
- Plant a vegetable garden
- Learn to speak basic phrases in another language
- Wash the car
- Go hunting for bugs
- Play twister
- Do chalk drawings on concrete
- Make mud pies
- Learn to read and write basic phrases in another language
- Create a playlist
- Have a water fight
- Have a picnic lunch outside the house
- Camp in the backyard
- Create a family tree picture
- Play ball games
- Jump on the trampoline
- Play Frisbee
- Ride your bike or scooter
- Have an 80’s Fancy Dress Dance Party
- Make your own bubble mixture
- Play hopscotch
- Run through the sprinkler
- Make and fly your own kit
- Create DIY toy parachute
- Do an online yoga class
- Make your own wind chimes
- Make a bowling alley with plastic toys plastic bottles and use socks rolled up as ball
- Have a disco and play music from 2000 to 2010
- Play dress up
- Do bath paints
- Create a car ramp
- Play the potato walk
- Create shadow puppets
- Make a scrapbook
- Do animal charades
- Do jumping jacks and count who does the most
- Play pantyhose bowling
- Go through old photos and recreate them
- Paint on smooth stones and rocks
- Create DIY Race Track on the floor
- Organise your book shelves
- Help them clean up their rooms
- Learn to braid hair
- Make a thankful jar
- Practice spelling
- DIY doll house
- Make slime
- Fold coloured paper and cut them in different things
- Create a workout session and do it together
- Try to listen to kid’s podcast
- Go through their toys and pick ones to give to charity
- Create clothes for toys using old clothes
- Write letters to friends
- Learn to knit
- Have a 90’s fancy dress dance party
- Create DIY tissue box monsters
- Face Painting
- Listen to Audiobooks
- Do a fancy dress party using old clothes
- Play red light, green light
- Complete a puzzle
- Create a salt volcano
- Make a cardboard fort
- Paint leaves
- Video chat family members
- Learn about insects
- Try some STEM activities
- Practice another language
- Play a foot race
- Teach the kids about your favourite bands and music
- Cook a special meal for Mum and Dad
- Blow bubbles
- Create a schedule for the everyday routine
- Create a science experiment
- Do virtual field trips
- Teach kids to recycle
- Exercise together
- Learn to draw like a pro
- Play the listening game
- Hand make Christmas cards for friends and family
- Create a touch and feel box
- Make fake snow
- Do handprint art
- Build a cardboard castle
- Make your own superhero costume
- Do a family chores together – maybe for extra pocket money to spend on e-bay
- Cookie cutter painting
- Take a walk around the block – count the rainbows or teddy bears in the windows
- Build an outdoor cubby
- Play Footy
- Play Basketball/Netball – count how many goals in 5 minutes
- Make a fairy garden
- Plant spring seedlings and bulbs
- Make homemade cards and post to special family and friends
- Help Mum sort out the washing
- Help feeding pets
- Set up a play store
- Have a tea party
- Build your own game
- Play the pillow case race
- Learn about a country
- Do brain teasers
- Create homemade bookmarks
- Tell jokes
- Give each other makeovers
- Play Mirror, Mirror
- Create a map of the house
- Puzzle Piece Hunt
- Play with bubble wrap
- Indoor Hide and Seek
- Create art from recyclables
- Cardboard box colouring
- Play the racing pompom balls
- Learn about history
- Create a pool noddle house
- Cotton ball painting
- Play pillow sumo wrestling
- Balloon Stamp Paint
- Create homemade musical instruments
- Do a paper clip chain
- Play connect the dots
- Toothbrush splatter painting
- Melted crayon art
- Make a telescope with cardboard cylinders
- Paper bag mask
- Tissue paper flowers
- Yarn or wool wrapped around a vase
- Put fruit into ice cubes
- Play with Jelly
- Shoot indoor baskets with old newspaper balls
- Make necklaces with breakfast cereal/pasta
- Create a mini golf course
- Window painting
- Redecorate the room
- Make something out of paper towel rolls
- Play bingo with words
- Make bucket stilts and walk around the house
- Leg Wrestling
- Skip rope – count the jumps
What would you add to this list?
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